Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters

New York: Doubleday, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); off-white and dark brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,880pp; illus. Spine ends a bit nudged, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $40.00), with some corresponding wear to spine ends and along the upper edge; Near Fine. A landmark gathering of letters by Hurston, collected and edited by Hurston scholar Carla Kaplan, with a foreword by Hurston biographer Robert Hemenway, and a bibliography of Hurston's published and unpublished works.