Petry (Ann) The Street
£195
London, Michael Joseph, [1947].
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
Rare. The author’s first novel, and a literary precedent, being the first book by a black woman to sell more than a million copies. The story follows Lutie Johnson, a young Black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s.
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A very good copy in jacket suffering from wear and loss around spine and top edges.
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