Wideman, John Edgar

THE CATTLE KILLING

[Boston]: [Houghton Mifflin], [n.d., but 1996]. First edition. Spiral bound. An uncorrected proof: comb-bound, oversized photocopied pages without any preliminary or publication information. Inscribed "For-- An early version - may it grow...." Set in late 18th century Philadelphia during a yellow fever epidemic which he wrote about in an early story "Fever". It connects a Black preacher and a woman recently from Africa. Winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. Near Fine in Wraps. Item #3385
ISBN: 0395785901

Price: $250.00