(LITERATURE AND POETRY) HURSTON ZORA NEALE Moses Man of The

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) HURSTON, ZORA NEALE. Moses: Man of The Mountain. Large, thick 8vo, original pictorial brown and orange cloth showing some light spotting to the spine. Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1939)

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an exceptional association copy, inscribed to fellow novelist arna bontemps: "To Arna Bontemps who plays high trombone in God's best band. With admiration, Zora Neale Hurston," a nice sidelong reference to James Weldon Johnson's long Harlem Renaissance poem "God's Trombones."(1927). Zora Neale Hurston and Arna Bontemps were both major figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Bontemps, the author of "God Sends Sunday" (1931) and "Black Thunder" (1936), while Hurston was known for "Jonah's Gourd Vine" (1934) and "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (1937).