[Rarebooks] FS: "Good darkey laughter and whisky flavored speech"

[Charles Agvent]

STRIBLING, T. S. BACKWATER. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 
1930. First Edition. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the 
first blank: "This book was written/to be published in/Argosy - its 
book/publication was/an after clap/T S Stribling." A novel of the 
Mississippi Backwater. From the dustwrapper copy: "Good darkey laughter 
and whisky flavored speech are an intrinsic part of this unforgettable 
tale." Attractive dustwrapper art by Harold von Schmidt. Closed jagged 
tear, slightly larger than an inch, at the top front panel of the 
dustwrapper, and a short closed tear at the top rear. Near Fine in 
price-clipped, Very Good dustwrapper.

Stribling sold more books than any author between the two world wars, 
and that includes Hemingway and Faulkner. He was the first of two 
Alabama authors to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, the other 
being Harper Lee for TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.        $1,200.00	


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