THE CONJURE WOMAN

Book Description

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899.. Medium brown cloth, lettered in gilt, with pictorial vignette on upper board. Small oval early 20th century bookseller's label in extreme upper corner of front pastedown (slight offset on opposite free endsheet), otherwise an unusually bright copy, about fine. First edition, ordinary issue, of the author's first book, a collection of interrelated short stories collected from their earlier periodical appearances in response to the success of "The Goophered Grapevine," the first short story by an African American writer to see publication in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. There was also a large-paper issue of 150 copies. WRIGHT III:1017.

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