Jubilee [Inscribed]

New York: Bantam Books, 1967. Reprint. Octavo (17.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; xvi,416pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page in 1992. Subtle tanning to text edges (as usual), else Fine. Walker's only novel, which had been her doctoral dissertation. "Jubilee is a realistic story of a slave family set before, during, and after the Civil War, based on the tales her grandmother had told her. It traces the life of the daughter of a white plantation owner and a slave, relating the oppression of her early life as a slave and the alienation of her postwar life cut off from the social structure she had known" (AANB Vol.8, p.73).