(LITERATURE AND POETRY) CHESNUTT CHARLES W Conjure Woman

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) CHESNUTT, CHARLES W. Conjure Woman. 229 pages. 8vo, original pictorial cloth, some very sloth mottling to the spine between the title and author's name, otherwise a fine, fresh copyinscribed and signed by the authorin a specially made slipcase. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899

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first trade edition of the author's first book, inscribed on the first blank. "My dear Miss Jones; May you never need the services of the conjure woman to ward off misfortune, and may good luck come to you all your days, Sincerely, Chas. W. Chesnutt." The recipient of this volume has written her name on the front free end-paper: "Marie Pauline Jones, Xmas, 1900." Charles Chesnutt (1858-1932), author, essayist and political activist is generally considered to be the first major African American novelist of the modern era. The Conjure Woman is an interrelated collection of stories that blend together into a novel. Chesnutt was a successful attorney with a practice in the Midwest.