GREEN THURSDAY: STORIES

by Julia Peterkin

$1,750 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book, a collection of linked short stories about a black farm laborer named Killdee; his wife, Rose; and their foster daughter, Missie. Peterkin drew on what she knew about the lives of real people at Lang Syne, rendering some of them so acutely that the portraits are recognizable to their descendants. Yet the emotional force of many of

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.