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Early Black Novelist's First Book

 

CHESNUTT, CHARLES W. The Conjure Woman. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. 1st ed. 12mo. [4], 229, [1] pp. Orig. pictorial cloth, spine very darkened, lightly chipped. Bottom portion of early inner margins chipped. Inner hinges cracking but still sound. $250.00

 

Wright III, 1017. Blockson, A Commented Bibliography, 49: "He was one of the first Afro-American writers to use black folklore significantly in his fiction....The most striking and unusual feature of The Conjure Woman is Chesnutt's attempt to challenge the racial integrity of the ante-bellum writers of the plantation South..."