The Fire in the Flint

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1924

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First edition. Octavo. 300 + ads pp. Decorated maroon cloth. A few faint soil marks on the cloth, else a very good copy with the text fresh and clean, lacking the dust jacket. An important African-American novel: "Dr. Kenneth Harper returns to his native Georgia to practice medicine. His efforts to help poor Negroes incur local white hatred. His sister is raped and his brother commits suicide after wreaking vengeance upon the white rapists. Dr. Harper is lynched after giving aid to a white patient" - Whiteman. *A Century of Fiction by American Negroes*, p. 47. White headed the NAACP for a quarter of a century. Warmly inscribed by White to author Theodore Stempfel, with Stempfel's copy attractive contemporary bookplate: "To my new friend - For Theodore Stempfel, With the best of wishes, Walter F. White. Indianapolis 17 November 1924". Stempfel translated a number of works on the American 'Turnerbund' movement, a gymnastic union with early roots in Germany, that in the 19th-century was a proponent of socialism and the abolition of slavery.…

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Title
The Fire in the Flint
Author
WHITE, Walter F.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Publication year
1924
Condition
Very Good
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Signed by Author(s)
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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