These Low Grounds Signed

by Waters Edward Turpin

$3,000 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii , 344 pages. Scarce debut novel by this Harlem Renaissance writer. Turpin was a native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, and that is the primary setting of this saga of four generations of African Americans dealing with slavery and its impact. Richard Wright, in an early review, claimed it was the first

• Binding: Hardcover

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