AUNT AMITY'S SILVER WEDDING AND OTHER STORIES
by Stuart, Ruth McEnery
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket; Green boards with gilt titles and front board decorations. Top edge soil, light wear to spine en
- Seller
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Trumbull, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Century Co. Very Good with no dust jacket; Green boards with gilt titles and front . board decorations. Top edge soil, light wear to spine ends; small bump to . back fore edge. Foxing to title page.. 1909. Later Printing. Hardcover. "Stuart has been characterized as belonging to the school of "American local color writing that emphasizes regional characteristics in landscape, way of life, and language. Stuart's treatment of blacks forms a significant portion of her corpus and, if potentially troublesome today, "contemporary critics acclaimed her as providing an authentic representation of African Americans." [Simpson, Ethel C. (2 April 2010). "Mary Routh McEnery Stuart (18521917) ". The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies]; 7 x 5 x 1 inches; 228 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Blackbird Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1213
- Title
- AUNT AMITY'S SILVER WEDDING AND OTHER STORIES
- Author
- Stuart, Ruth McEnery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Green boards with gilt titles and front board decorations. Top edge soil, light wear to spine en
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Century Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- FICTION, SHORT STORIES, AFRICAN AMERICAN, SOUTH
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Non-Mystery / Collectible Fiction;
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About the Seller
Blackbird Bookshop
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Trumbull, Connecticut
About Blackbird Bookshop
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- Title Page
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