Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 345 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in the publisher's black cloth bearing black lettering to a paper label to the spine. Boards show modest shelf wear exteriorly with slight tilt to the spine. Text block shows moderate age toning to the edges. Deckled fore edge and slight offsetting to the end papers. Pictorial end papers. Cracking to the gutter at front end paper and flyleaf. Light foxing interiorly to gutters. The Pulitzer Prize winner for Novel/Literature, 1929. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column D, ND-D. 1377012. FP New Rockville Stock.

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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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Bookseller: Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1377012
Title: SCARLET SISTER MARY
Author: Peterkin, Julia
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date Published: 1928

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