INTRUDER IN THE DUST
$1,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books
First edition
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Novel set in rural Mississippi during the 1940's, dealing heavily with race relations and centered around the murder of a white man and the black man accused of the killing. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title, and basis for the highly-regarded 1949 Clarence Brown film. Petersen A24b; Brodsky & Hamlin 646; Hubin, p.142; Coan, p.187. Item #6250
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