Cane / Jean Toomer ; introduction by Arna Bontemps.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.

Contributor:

Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973, writer of introduction.

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

Series:

Perennial classic ; P3087.

Perennial classic ; P3087

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Southern States--Fiction.

Southern States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi, 239 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1969.

Contents:

Karintha; Reapers; November Cotton Flower; Becky; Face; Cotton Song; Carma; Song of the Son; Georgia Dusk; Fern Nullo; Evening Song; Esther; Conversation; Portrait in Georgia; Blood-Burning Moon

Seventh Street; Rhobert; Avey; Beehive; Storm Ending; Theater; Her Lips are Copper Wire; Calling Jesus; Box Seat; Prayer; Harvest Song; Bona and Paul

Karnis.

Notes:

Originally published in 1923 by Boni & Liveright, Inc., New York.

First Perennial Classic edition published in 1969.

Cover design by James McMullan.

Local Notes:

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

Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks laid in.

OCLC:

43593