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CHESNUTT, Ch.W. The Conjure Woman. Lond., Gay and Bird, 1899. (4), 229, (1) pp. Or. pictorial brown cl. with gilt lettering. (Bind. sl. soiled, previous owner's entry in blue pencil on upper paste down).
First UK edition printed in the same year and at the same press (Riverside Press) as the first American edition. Chesnutt's first book, it contains seven short stories, all set in Patesville, North Carolina within the same framing narrative. The tales are all told by a formerly enslaved man named "Uncle Julius McAdoo", as he relates them to the narrator (a white northern man named John) and the narrator's wife. Chesnutt was an African-American author who frequently wrote about characters dealing with issues of mixed race, "passing", illegitimacy, racial identities, and social place. The Conjure Woman was adapted into a film by film-maker Oscar Micheaux in 1926, but is now believed to be lost.€ 150
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