Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The conjure woman / by Charles W. Chesnutt.
Call Number
Eng 19 61573
PS1292.C6 xC6
3675.55.326
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcxp68kw95t
Publisher
Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company ; Cambridge : The Riverside Press, 1899 (Cambridge : Electrotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton and Co.)
Language
English
Date Created
1899
Format
Book
Extent
[6], 229, [1] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
The goophered grapevine
Po' Sandy
Mars Jeems's nightmare
The conjurer's revenge
Sis' Becky's pickaninny
The gray wolf's ha'nt
Hotfoot Hannibal. ("The conjurer's revenge" reprinted from the Overland monthly.)
Notes
"The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., electrotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton and Co."--Colophon.
Princeton copy 1 "Henry Allison, shooting match, Jan. 3rd, 1908"--Inscribed on front free endpaper.
Binding Note
Pub. brown cloth bds., with color-stamped pictorial design in red, white, black, and gilt on upper cover and gilt-stamped title on spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
African Americans—Fiction
English language—Dialects—United States

Physical Characteristics

File Count
247

Institutional Information

Collection
Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6ba66792-aeeb-4661-bb48-708a3bf9c597/manifest