Moses, Man of the Mountain
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1939.
First edition, first printing. 351 pp. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth stamped in orange, orange topstain. Near Fine with slight lean to spine, bookseller ticket to back pastedown, and light toning to contents. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to extremities, including 3 short tears to foldlines, and rubbing and light staining to rear panel.
A beautiful copy of the Harlem Renaissance author's most ambitious book, a retelling of Exodus that draws a parallel between the enslavement of the Israelites and the enslavement of African Americans. A glowing contemporary review referred to "the special, respectful feeling the negro has always reserved for Moses as the great magician — the greatest voodoo man of them all."
Price: $5,800