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Scarlet Sister Mary
by Peterkin, Julia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1978. First Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full maroon leather, spine in four compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder, elaborate gilt decoration on covers, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in, Smyth sewen. Includes a Preliminary Note about the Book and Author. Illustrated with full-page color paintings and a double-page color frontispiece by Charles Hamrick. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1929. A "tender and moving story of Negro plantation life in coastal South Carolina..." . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW.. Pulitzer Prize Series. Color Plates. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xvi), 329 pp .
Synopsis
Scarlet Sister Mary is a 1928 novel by Julia Peterkin. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1929. It was called obscene and banned at the public library in Gaffney, South Carolina. The Gaffney Ledger newspaper, however, serially published the complete book. Dr. Richard S. Burton, the chairperson of Pulitzer's fiction-literature jury, recommended that the first prize go to the novel Victim and Victor by Dr. John B. Oliver.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28839
- Title
- Scarlet Sister Mary
- Author
- Peterkin, Julia
- Illustrator
- Charles Hamrick
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- New As New with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Literature, Pulitzer Prize, Franklin Library, African-american, Negro life, South Carolina
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
Round Table Books, LLC lists rare, beautiful and interesting books. All books are described accurately, packed carefully and shipped promptly. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Any book may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.
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