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Wallace Thurman, Blacker the Berry 1st ed.
Wallace Thurman, Blacker the Berry 1st ed.
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Author: Thurman, Wallace
Title: The Blacker the Berry: A Novel of Negro Life
Place Published: New York
Publisher:The Macaulay Company
Date Published: 1929
Description: 262 pp. Brown cloth lettered in black. First Edition.First novel published by the author.
Condition
Light rubbing to cloth, owner marks to front endpapers and to epigraph page; very good.
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Wallace Thurman, Blacker the Berry 1st ed.

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