(LITERATURE AND POETRY) WHITE WALTER The Fire in the Flint

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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) WHITE, WALTER. The Fire in the Flint. 300 pages. 8vo, original decorative red cloth; extremities very lightly rubbed with no loss of cloth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924

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first edition of white's second novel, inscribed and signed: "To Clarence and Ann, with all good wished, ever sincerely, Walter White, New York City, 29 August 1924."White's novel holds no shred of hope for blacks in the rural South: "Dr. Kenneth Harper returns to his native Georgia to practice medicine. His efforts to help poor Negroes incur local white hatred. His sister is raped and his brother commits suicide after wreaking vengeance upon the white rapists. Dr. Harper is lynched after giving aid to a white patient." From Maxwell Whiteman's Century of Fiction by American Negroes (Philadelphia, 1955.)