Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) FAUSET, JESSIE REDMON. There is Confusion. 8vo, original orange cloth, blocked in black; spine slightly sunned. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1924

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first edition, first issue with the errata slip tipped in between the title page and the dedication. "The Negro middle class is as much governed by respectability and tradition as are those who are not Negro. But they have an additional problem, color." (Whiteman, Century of Fiction by American Negroes.) The first of four novels by Fauset that revolve around social standing, color and "passing."