Author: HURSTON, Zora Neale
Title: Moses, Man of the Mountain
Publication: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., (1939)
Edition: First Edition
Description: Hardcover. Octavo, 351pp. A crisp, clean copy, with the last two gatherings unopened. Owner's stamp to the title page and twice to the front paste-down (mostly concealed by the dust jacket flap); very good or better. Dust jacket good at best, with wear to extremities, most notably a large chip and a small hole to the rear panel, with loss to a few words of printed text. Two pieces of tape to the verso. Hurston, an anthropologist by training, explores the figure of Moses as a "Voodoo man" in the context of African-American religious culture. Scarce in jacket. Very good + / Good-.
Seller ID: 13382
Subject: African-American history
