Chesnutt, Charles W.. The Conjure Woman. Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, MA, 1899.

Price: US$32000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, large paper issue. copy number 27 of a limited 150. Signed by Charles Chesnutt on the title page, with an inscription reading "Sincerely Yours, Chas. W. Chesnutt." Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with printed paper title label on the spine. Very Good with slight lean to binding, a bit of soiling and darkening to cloth at edges, shallow chipping at spine ends, toning and some loss to title label on spine, contemporary former owner name to the front paste down. A collection of short stories as told in dialect by Uncle Julius, a freed slave, in antebellum North Carolina. Signed copies of this book are incredibly scarce, with one copy of the first trade edition appearing at auction in 2013 and a second printing appearing in 2004.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.