[AFRICAN AMERICANA] PETRY, Ann

The Street

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Early Printing, without publication date on the title page. Octavo (21.25cm); grey cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stmaped in black on spine and covers; [viii],435,[1]pp. Forward lean, modest wear, pictorial bookplate to front endpaper, with two old tape stains to front pastedown, and a vintage decorative bookseller's ticket to upper rear pastedown; Very Good, lacking the dustjacket.

Petry's first book, chronicling the life of a single mother raising her child in Harlem during the 1940's. A high-spot of postwar African-American women's fiction, not often found in attractive condition. HANNA 2854.

Price: $50.00

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