signed first edition Softcover
2012 · Columbia, SC
by Peterkin, Julia
Columbia, SC: The Humanities Council. As New. 2012. First Edition. Softcover. A beautiful numbered edition of 15 lettered copies, this one being copy "B", in As New condition, with 20 illustrations by the distinguished South Carolina artist Stephen Chesley bound in and a signed and lettered hand-colored etching laid in. Signed by Stephen Chesley on the limitation page; For the first time in its 16 year history, the South Carolina Book Festival has produced a limited-edition chapbook to help raise funds to support festival events. The chapbook features "Ashes", the first story in Julia Peterkin's collection "Green Thursday", her first book. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1924 and then published by the University of Georgia Press in 1998. Julia Peterkin (October 31, 1880 - August 10, 1961) is one of South Carolina's most respected authors and the only South Carolinian to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ; Etchings; 4to; [viii], 40 pages; #24, #25, #26; Signed by Illustrator .
(Inventory #: 29595)