The Street.
"The snow fell softly on the street. It muffled sound. It sent people scurrying homeward, so that the street was soon deserted, empty, quiet": First Edition of Ann Petry’s Powerful first Novel The Street; Inscribed by Her in 1947
The Street.
PETRY, Ann.
Item Number: 4423
Boston: : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946.
First edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, “For Mr. Martin W. Wright Ann Petry Old Saybrook, Conn. Nov 9, 1947.” Very good in a very good dust jacket with some toning to the spine.
The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. "A major literary invention . . . A truly great book" (The Los Angeles Times).
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