[Rarebooks] FS: T. S. Stribling's BIRTHRIGHT, adapted by Oscar Micheaux into a silent film

[Charles Agvent]

STRIBLING, T. S. BIRTHRIGHT. New York: The Century Co., 1922. First 
Edition. Illustrated by F. Luis Mora. The protagonist of this novel is 
an educated mulatto male who tries to survive in a small Southern town 
in the early twentieth century. In a biography of Stribling, William E. 
Smith states: "Many years after its publication, Stribling identified 
his work as 'the first realistic novel of Negroes written in this 
country since Opie Read produced My YOUNG MASTER.' In 1924, the famous 
black director Oscar Micheaux adapted Birthright into a silent film. 
Part of the uniqueness of Micheaux's work was his use of an all-minority 
cast. Fifteen years later with the advent of talking film, Micheaux 
would remake the same movie into a talking version." Near Fine, lacking 
the 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. (#014227)        $200.00

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