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Strange Fruit
by Smith, Lillian
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. Lillian Eugenia Smith (1897-1966) was a "white woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality, she was a southern liberal unafraid to criticize segregation and work toward the dismantling of Jim Crow laws, at a time when such actions virtually guaranteed social ostracism." Dealing with inter-racial love, this book was banned in Boston, Detroit, and from the USPS, thus guaranteeing its commercial success. This is a Near Fine copy of a Later Printing (the 10th). This is a wartime edition, with reset plates and type a bit smaller than the First Edition, to save paper. Blue cloth binding with titling in yellow and white on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 250 pages. Contemporary (1944) signature on the FFEP; small bookseller's label on the rear paste-down. The only major defect is an incorrect trimming of pages 243 to 245, a publisher's binding mistake. The dustjacket, a rather nice design by Richard Floethe, is unclipped; it shows some wear at the margins with wrinkling and chipping. In an archival plastic protector.. Fourth Printing.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004825
- Title
- Strange Fruit
- Author
- Smith, Lillian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Fourth Printing.
- Publisher
- Reynal & Hitchcock
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1944
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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