Burnside Rare Books

The Dawn Appears

Nelson, Annie Greene

Columbia, SC: Hampton Publishing Company, 1944.

First edition of this scarce novel written by an African American woman who worked as a teacher and librarian in South Carolina. Bound in publisher's original reddish-brown cloth stamped in brown. Good, cloth mottled, boards splayed and worn through at edges. Foxing to textblock edge and pages toned, inner hinges exposed. In a tattered dust jacket repaired from the verso with mending tissue at the spine, front flap detached.

The author's second published novel. Nelson was the first African American in South Carolina to publish a novel. All three of her novels were reprinted in 1976. Item #140943070

Price: $1,800.00