A Business Career

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); beige paper-covered boards and brown cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in copper on spine and front cover; xviii,218,[4]pp. Publisher's ISBN sticker on rear cover, else Fine. First printing of one of Chesnutt's "white-life" novels, which were left behind in manuscript at the time of his death. Set in a fictitious Midwestern city, the novel is a melodramatic tale centered around the romance of an older man and a younger woman. Edited by Matthew Wilson and Marjan A. Van Schaik.