Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney ; foreword by Ruby Dee ; introduction by Sherley Anne Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Contributor:

Pinkney, Jerry, illustrator.

Dee, Ruby, writer of foreword.

Williams, Sherley Anne, 1944-1999, writer of introduction.

Tehon, Atha, designer.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Self-realization--Fiction.

Self-realization.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (inscription) (Tehon Collection copy)

Pinkney, Jerry (autograph) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, xxxii, 231 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1991].

Summary:

Initially published in 1937, this novel about a proud, independent black woman has, since its reissue in trade paper in 1978, been the most widely readand highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature. With this richly illustrated new edition, the novel is finally accorded the treatment it deserves as a classic.

Notes:

Originally published: Philadelphia : Lippincott, c1937.

Designed by Atha Tehon.

Title page printed in black and red.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Tehon Collection copy inscribed "For Atha Tehon 1992" signed by Jerry Pinkney.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0252017781

OCLC:

23582913