(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) GILBERT, MERCEDES. Aunt Sara's Wooden God. Introduction by Langston Hughes. 8vo, original green cloth stamped in black; but for a tiny stamp at the foot of the rear pastedown "editorial copy," a pristine copy. New York: Christopher House, (1938)
first edition. Mercedes Gilbert (1894-1952), actress, poet and novelist, appeared with Paul Robeson in "Body and Soul" (1925). "This is an authentic, everyday story of thousands of little families below the Mason-Dixon line, bound to the soil by poverty and blackness." From the Forward by Langston Hughes. Whiteman, page 24, "Miscegenation; the conflict between two half-brothers, sons of a white and Negro father."
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