Details

Subject(s)

• African Americans—New York (State)—New York—Fiction [Browse]
• City and town life—New York (State)—New York—Fiction [Browse]
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction [Browse]
• Mothers and sons—Fiction [Browse]
• American fiction—20th century [Browse]

Publisher

• Houghton Mifflin Company [Browse]

Printer

• Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.) [Browse]

Former owner

• Blockson, Charles L. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Domestic fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Authors' presentation copies (Provenance) [Browse]
• Bookplates (Provenance) [Browse]

Series

• Houghton Mifflin literary fellowship book. [More in this series]
• A Houghton Mifflin literary fellowship novel

Summary note

A young African American woman struggles to retain her moral integrity and guard her small son from evil in Harlem.

Notes

• "A Literary Fellowship Prize Novel"--Cover.
• Title page vignette.

Provenance

Princeton copy 1 Inscribed by the author to collector Oliver Franklin, also bookplate and signed on inside cover by Charles Blockson, author/collector.

Other format(s)

Also available online.

Place name(s)

United States Massachusetts Boston,

ISBN

• 0807063576
• 9780807063576
• 0395901499
• 9780395901496
• 0395573807 ((pbk.))
• 9780395573808

LCCN

85047522

OCLC

479766

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