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Bright Skin by Julia Peterkin
Bright Skin by Julia Peterkin. 1932 Bobbs-Merrill, limited edition, 348 pages. One of 250 signed copies (#121). Peterkin was a white Southern Pulitzer-winning novelist who wrote of African American life on the plantation. According to the Pulitzer website: "More surprising is the acceptance Peterkin’s work found among black intellectuals. W.E.B Du Bois wrote, “Peterkin is a southern white woman, but she has the eye and the ear to see beauty and know truth.” She became a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance during a time when most African-American fiction featured middle-class blacks in urban settings. Several authorities credit Peterkin for paving the way for more realistic novels by African-American writers, especially Zora Neale Hurston." Bright Skin was her fourth novel.
Condition: Good, missing slipcase, shelf wear to board, hinge a bit loose. Signed by the author.
"Day was not yet clean."
Bright Skin by Julia Peterkin. 1932 Bobbs-Merrill, limited edition, 348 pages. One of 250 signed copies (#121). Peterkin was a white Southern Pulitzer-winning novelist who wrote of African American life on the plantation. According to the Pulitzer website: "More surprising is the acceptance Peterkin’s work found among black intellectuals. W.E.B Du Bois wrote, “Peterkin is a southern white woman, but she has the eye and the ear to see beauty and know truth.” She became a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance during a time when most African-American fiction featured middle-class blacks in urban settings. Several authorities credit Peterkin for paving the way for more realistic novels by African-American writers, especially Zora Neale Hurston." Bright Skin was her fourth novel.
Condition: Good, missing slipcase, shelf wear to board, hinge a bit loose. Signed by the author.
"Day was not yet clean."