Seller Description: Very Good. First edition, first printing. Very Good with cloth a bit worn at corners and spine ends, bumping to edges heavily affecting top inner page corners. Previous owner bookplate to front free end paper. In a Fair dust jacket, with large chips missing from the spine, tape ghosts and mending tissue to the verso repairing full splits at the front spine joint and flap fold; publisher's price intact. The Harlem Renaissance author's best known title, and rather scarce in the first printing. See More Details

Seller Description: First edition of this classic retelling of Moses' exodus. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Louise Elder-one of God's pretty throne-angels with shiny Wings. Sincerely, Zora Neale Hurston." Light rubbing, small contemporary inscription, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed by Zora Neale Hurston. In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses ... See More Details

Seller Description: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's orange cloth. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition. We buy Zora Hurston First Editions. See More Details

Seller Description: Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Zora Neale Hurston on the title page. Good, with cloth worn at the extremities a short tear at the head and fading to the spine. Light stains to the top edge, occasionally intruding slightly into the margins though heaviest at prelims and terminals. Lacking the dust jacket. Zora Neale Hurston's fourth book, which documents voodoo rituals and life in Haiti and Jamaica. See More Details

Seller Description: Very good book with no dust jacket. Inscribed by the author. 343 pages. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. Introduction by Franz Boas. Her study of African-American folklore in the South. Inscribed by Hurston in 1935 on the first title page. Very good+ book with light wear to the corners. A beautiful and unique copy! See More Details

Seller Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 343 pages. Foreword by Frank Boaz; illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias. Hurston was of course one of the major American novelists of the first half of the twentieth century, although the accolades came mostly after she was long dead. But Hurston was also an anthropologist without the benefit of an academic appointment. Her work survives in several collections of folklore, including this one. The first half of the book retells stories she collected in Florida; the ... See More Details

Seller Description: 7.5 x 5, green cloth, 316 pp, covers quite worn and unevenly sunned, extremities fraying, spine ends bumped, spine wrinkled, hinges loose, inner hinges reinforced, ex-lib (Carnegie Library of Atlanta, Auburn Branch) with usual marking though back pocket has been rudely removed, pp toned; still a decent copy. With an Introduction by Fanny Hurst. FIRST ED OF AUTHOR'S FIRST NOVEL, FROM THE LIBRARY OF W.E.B. DUBOIS WITH HIS INKSTAMP ON FRONT FLY. The Auburn Branch was created for Atlanta's African ... See More Details

Seller Description: Very Good + in Fine (Facsimile DW) jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Bound in light green cloth, stamped in black with uniform sunning to edges. Fitted with a facsimile dust jacket that fits the book perfectly. This is a well above average copy of the first edition of Hurston's first book. Introduction by Fannie Hurst. Back panel blurbs by Ms. Hurst, Carl Van Vechten and Blanche Colton Williams. 316 pp. See More Details

Seller Description: First edition of this classic retelling of Moses' exodus. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. A superior example. In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song to create a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith. Narrated in a mixture of biblical rhetoric, black dialect, and colloquial English, Hurston traces Moses's life ... See More Details

Seller Description: GOOD. JACKET: GOOD DJ. 6 X 8. Pictorial dust jacket: general book, shelf, edge-wear, rubs, chipping, corner bumps, soil marks, foxing, otherwise in Good Minus condition. Cover: light edge-wear, discoloration, front/back hinge cracks. Bookplate of the previous owner on the front paste-down page, pencil lines on a few pages from the previous owner with a pencil notation on the last page. Dust jacket excerpt, "...the story of a young Negro girl who was to become one of the most respected ... See More Details

Seller Description: Fine in Very Good dust jacket. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. (Chip at crest of spine, with no affect on titles. Interior tape repairs at top & bottom of jacket. Barely discernible tape repairs at spine ends on jacket. Light shelf-wear with a few small tears. ) See More Details

Seller Description: Good. Octavo. Cloth Hardcover, 1937. First Edition. 286 pp. Literary classic from this Harlem Renaissance writer. No dustjacket. Ex-library; no institutional markings to exterior. Institutional treatments occur only to endpapers. Bound in original orange cloth with black lettering. Cover shows moderate bumps and soiling, a couple short tears in cloth. Textblock is square and upright. Pages clean. Binding is bit shaken, but sound. Tome handles well. Offered by the Antiquarian, Rare, and ... See More Details

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Seller Description: Fine in very good(+) jacket. 8vo, maroon cloth, pictorially stamped in orange; d.w. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1939. First Edition. First issue binding. Fine copy in a very good + dust wrapper with the $3.00 price. See More Details

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Seller Description: Good. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled. See More Details

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Seller Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Book Beautiful Copy In Like Jacket. Second Printing. Scarce in this Condition. $3.00 on Flap. Book plate under Front Flap. See More Details

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Seller Description: This edition is 1938 in like new condition has rough cut pages all corners are sharp no writing in book and color of book red and blue striped pages are tanning with age ther a re 2 places on edge of book where is damaged with bugs. See More Details

Seller Description: Good. Lippincott, 1935. First edition. Very good, rust colored cloth with brown lettering. Pictorial front board with weeping gator. Very good+. This copy has the front panel and flap of the scarce dust jacket, chipped at edges. And artist bookplate: "Quid Sequitor LEBO". Introduction by anthropologist Franz Boas. Hurston was the first Black woman to graduate from Barnard where Boas was a mentor. She describes her attraction to the field in this seminal folklore collection. 10 illustrations by ... See More Details

Seller Description: Fair. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Ships Fast. 24*7 Customer Service. See More Details

Seller Description: First edition, "pre-publication copy". 8vo. (8), 310 pp. "Life in the sawmill country along the banks of the Suwannee River in Florida." Not in the Blockson catalogue (6343 for the regular edition). Gardner Florida Fiction 516. Very good. Original printed wrappers (partly sunned, somewhat eroded at base of spine, small chip there). (#5948). See More Details

Seller Description: First edition of Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, 26 illustrations. Near fine in a price-clipped good dust jacket with some wear and tear and tape repair to the back panel. Based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica--where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer during her visits in the 1930s--Tell My Horse is a fascinating firsthand account of the mysteries of Voodoo. An ... See More Details

Seller Description: 8vo, pp. 311. Gray cloth. Cover slightly worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w VG tight copy in some worn dj (marginal chipping, etc.). Hurston's fourth, and final, novel. See More Details