Their Eyes Were Watching God by Hurston, Zora Neale - 1937

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth lettered in black; lacking the dust jacket. Near fine with minor shelf wear to cloth, small stain to textblock bottom edge at corner not affecting margins, previous owner address label to front paste down and pages toned.

A fantastic copy of Hurston's best-known work, which took her only seven weeks to write in Haiti. Upon publication it generally received bad reviews, especially from fellow African American writers like Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. It fell out of print and was nearly forgotten until Alice Walker's 1975 essay, "Looking for Zora" in Ms. magazine revived interest in it. Over the next four decades since then its reputation and sales have increased steadily. It is now one of the most widely read and critically examined novels of the 20th century.