My Great, Wide, Beautiful World

xxx, xii, 318pp. Cloth-covered boards (boards are perfect, some very minor speckling to upper text block edge). In its original dust jacket (very slightly bumped at base of spine). First published in 1936, Harrison's autobiographical travelogue has a vividness and energy that transcends her idiosyncratic style. A unique volume giving a colourful account of a worldwide odyssey and of a remarkable African-American writer. This edition includes an introductory essay by Adele Logan Alexander. A Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket.