Their eyes were watching God / a novel by Zora Neale Hurston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurston, Zora Neale.

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Florida--Fiction.

Florida.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 2406) (Schimmel 6913))

Haynes School Library (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 2406))

Moon, Mollie (autograph) (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6913))

Hurston, Zora Neale (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6913) (Schimmel 6914))

Cole, E. Camille Hood (Ethel Camille Hood), 1891-1968 (inscription) (label) (Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6914))

Physical Description:

286 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Co., [1937]

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 2406) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 2406) has stamp ("HAYNES SCHL. LIBR.") on front pastedown, p. 23, and date-due slip pocket on back pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel Fiction 2406): p. 273-276 torn at fore-edge margin.

Schimmel Collection copies (Schimmel 6913 and 6914) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6913) has autograph ("Mollie V. Lewis") of Mollie Virgil Lewis (later Moon; 1907-1990) on front pastedown and back pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6913) inscribed by the author ("For Mollie Lewis, A throne ornament from the right side in heaven, Zora Neale Hurston, Jan. 9, 1938") to Mollie Virgil Lewis (later Moon; 1907-1990) on 9 January 1938 in red ink on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6913) has review of Hurston's Dust tracks on a road by John Chamberlain (New York Times, 7 November 1942, page 13) laid in.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6913): dust jacket (mutilated and housed separately) retained.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6914) has address label ("E. Camille Hood 1344 Chapel Street Cincinnati, Ohio") of Ethel Camille Hood (née Cole; 1891-1968) on front free endpaper; manuscript inscription ("E. Camille Hood - 1344 Chabel St Their Eyes were Watching God") in blue ink on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy (Schimmel 6914) inscribed by the author ("To Camille Hood who plays slide trombone in God's best band Zora Neale Hurston April 11, 1939 [corrected from: 1936]") to Ethel Camille Hood (née Cole; 1891-1968) on 11 April 1939 in red ink on title leaf.

OCLC:

1408480