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CHARLES CHESNUTT

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"AMERICA’S FIRST GREAT BLACK NOVELIST"

CHESNUTT, Charles W. Conjure Woman. Boston and New York, 1899.

First edition of the very elusive first book by Chesnutt—"among the major American fiction writers of the 19th century"—a key volume of seven stories fusing "tradition with new forms… ancient mythology with African American folklore," in colorful original cloth. $4000.

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"THE FIRST GREAT AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITER"

CHESNUTT, Charles W. Wife of His Youth. Boston, 1899.

First edition of Chesnutt's decisive second collection of richly engaging and "subversive" stories that "explode myths about American history and racial supremacy," with frontispiece and three full-page illustrations, in original gilt-stamped cloth. $3500.

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"THE GHOSTS OF ONE ERA HAUNT THE HOUSES OF THE NEXT"

CHESNUTT, Charles W. Frederick Douglass. Boston, 1899.

First edition of Chesnutt's biography that "shows Douglass' influence on one of America's greatest Black writers" —a "double first" for Beacon Biographies, its "first volume on an African American subject" and its first "by an African American biographer"—a beautiful copy. $2500.

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