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About this title: 1929. Heyward's first novel Porgy was an immediate success. He started his literary career with short stories of Negro life in his native South and his novel Mamba's Daughters returns to that theme. The book begins: It was no mere chance that, during the first decade of the new century, brought Mamba out of the darkness of the underworld into the light of the Wentworths' kitchen. Casual as that event seemed, there is good evidence for the belief that it had its origin in some obscure recess of the woman's mind; or in perhaps some deep and but half comprehended instinct that drove her, against ...
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Mamba's Daughters-a Novel of Charleston
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Du Bose Heyward
Description: Acceptable. May contain some marks or highlighting. No Dust Jacket AS IS! Spine cracked, cover partially deatched. read more
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Mamba's Daughters-a Novel of Charleston
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Du Bose Heyward
Description: Good. Good condition No Dust Jacket. read more
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Mamba's Daughters-a Novel of Charleston
by
Du Bose Heyward
Binding: Hardcover
Description: 1929. Hardcover. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Shipped to over one million satisfied book lovers. Read with Experienced Books. Good condition, showing modest signs of wear. Previous owner's name or address or stamp on front end paper or inside front cover. Cover is just beginning to separate from binding. Moderate to large bends/tears to dust jacket. Dust jacket: Acceptable. read more
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Mamba's Daughters-a Novel of Charleston
by
Du Bose Heyward
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Literary Guild, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Very Good. ---Very Good. in No Dust Jacket. Interior overall nice condition. Boards are well-preserved with only light signs of use. Reprint edition. Binding is Hard Cover. 12mo-over 6 3/4"-7 3/4" tall-Publish Place: -Size: read more
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Mamba's Daughters-a Novel of Charleston
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Du Bose Heyward
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Literary Guild, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Very Good. ---Very Good. in No Dust Jacket. Interior overall nice condition. Boards are well-preserved with only light signs of use. Reprint edition. Binding is Hard Cover. 12mo-over 6 3/4"-7 3/4" tall-Publish Place: -Size: read more
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Mamba's Daughters, a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Publisher: The Literary Guild, New York, NY
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good, none. 8vo, 311, Tan with black lettering, mauve topstain. Rear cover soiled. Decorative endpapers. read more
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Mamba's Daughters: a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: Literary Guild, NY
Date Published: 1929
Description: Harold Schmidt (eps) Good+ Il eps; fr hinge weak; cv very soiled. read more
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Mamba's Daughters, a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Edition: Book Club
Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Literary Guild, New York
Date Published: c1928
Description: Harold Von Schmidt endpapers. good+, no dj, pink-and-black-stamped tan cloth. 311 pgs, first published by Crowell. Owner's stamp on front and back endpapers, two more spots. Cover is lightly damp-stained. read more
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Mamba's Daughters-a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Binding: Hardcover
Description: HB with DJ, The Literary Guild, 1929, the selection for February. Tan cloth on boards with black lettering is showing light shelf wear, slightly weak hinges, pictoral end papers, contents lightly browning, DJ is rubbed with chips and tears from extremities. Very Good in Fair DJ. read more
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Mamba's Daughters-a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: Literary Guild, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. 8vo. Cover bumped and worn. Pages slightly soiled with pricing and light notes inside front. read more
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Mamba's Daughters. A Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Binding: Hard cover
Publisher: The Literary Guild
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. No dust jacket. 311 p. read more
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Mamba's Daughters a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Binding: Hardcover
Description: Reader copy; Collectible. Published in 1929 by the Literary Guild, a 311-page (light tan with brown cover-lettering) hardcover book with sturdy (but seriously frayed) spine (no jacket), a name written in ink on the inside back cover, and lightly-tan throughout due to age, otherwise, apparently-clean and unmarked, this is a nice reading and/or collectible copy. (722) read more
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Mamba's Daughters: a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Edition: Crowell Publishing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Literary Guild, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Illustrated endpapers. Hardcover VG. read more
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Mamba's Daughters a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Edition: Re Issue
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: N.Y. : Literary Guild, 1929
Description: Vg/VG. The DJ has two small chips. read more
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Mamba's Daughters, a Novel of Charleston
by
Heyward, Du Bose
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Literary Guild, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: VG+/VG. Tan cloth, black lettered. Pictorial end sheets. A rare book about a family and culture of Charleston, South Carolina. Heyward's novel was soon transformed into a drama and was equally successful on Broadway, starring Ethel Waters, with Georgette Harvey. It crowned Heyward's brilliant career with the musical "Porgy and Bess" along with George Gershwin. Top edge somewhat darkened, foredge/bottom edge light foxing, and occasional very light foxing on a few interior pgs. Prev owner's name ... read more
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Mamba's Daughters: a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Edition: Later printing of 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, NY
Date Published: 1929
Description: Fine, in near-fine, priced dust jacket, unchipped, with just a few tiny tears. A remarkable example of the jacket, which alone bears the book's subtitle (A Novel of Charleston), on a very early (1929 on t.p. ) though not first issue of the book. read more
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Mamba's Daughters: A Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Edition: Reprint. 1st in 1928;
Binding: Hard cover
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co, Garden City, N.Y.
Date Published: 1929
Description: Von Schmidt, Harold (Cover). Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Some chips to DJ, VG-, minor soiling; Prior owner name penciled inside cover. 311 p.; Wraparound village scene cover in green, black, peach, white; Green cloth-covered boards w/paste-on title label; residential scene endpapers. Fictional characters, black and white families, and a focal phosphate mining camp serves to illustrate the "industrial black belt" of the region in southeastern America, early 20th ... read more
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Mamba's Daughters a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Literary Guild
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket, moderate shelf and edge wear, unmarked text, previous owner penciled name on ffep, binding sound, boards slightly bumped at hinge and board edges. read more
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Mamba's Daughters: a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Publisher: The Literary Guild 1929
Description: Slightly cocked, badly soiled and sunned spine o/w Good. read more
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Mambas Daughters a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward Du Bose
Binding: Cloth Bds
Publisher: Literary Guild
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good, tan. 4vo, 311p. read more
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Mamba's Daughters: a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Literary Guild, NY
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good; ex-library copy (bookplate, etc. ); front hinge cracking. 311. read more
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Mamba's Daughters. a Novel of Charleston
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Heyward, Du Bose
Publisher: Literary Guild, New York
Date Published: 1928
Description: VG-/no DJ. BCE? Inside covers illustrated. Spine little cocked. Light edge/corner wear. Edge of back cover shows some discoloration. read more
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Mamba's Daughters: a Novel of Charleston
by
Heyward, Du Bose
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Literary Guild, New York
Date Published: 1929
Description: Good+ Covers slightly worn, slightly darkened, else nearly VG. Basically solid, clean; Beige cloth covers, with black lettering; Small 8vo; 311 pages; Hanna 1714: "Negroes in Charleston, SC. " Also noted in Agnew, Coates, & Witham bibliographies. read more
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Mamba's Daughters; a Novel of Charleston
by
Heyward, Du Bose
Binding: hardcover
Description: 8vo, cloth. New York, 1929. read more
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Mamba's Daughters a Novel of Charleston
by
Heyward, Du Bose
Binding: Hard Cover
Publisher: The Literary Guild, N Y
Date Published: 1929
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard cover is in very good condition as is the dust jacket now protected in mylar cover. has owners name on fly page scribbled out in black marker otherwise is unmarked and tightly bound. read more
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