The Interne
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1932.
First edition, first printing. 252, [4, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in blue. Darkening to cloth at rear joint, light foxing to textblock edge and erased owner notation to front free endpaper, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, a short closed tear at the top of the rear spine joint and a touch of soiling. A novel of a young doctor interning at a hospital rife with corruption. Thurman is most often associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though in this book there are no racially identified characters. His co-author Abraham L. Furman would go on to write many books over the years, mostly aimed at a juvenile audience. This, however, would be Thurman's final novel, published two years before he died of tuberculosis in the charity ward of a New York City hospital.
Price: $12,500.00