Jonah's Gourd Vine.

First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to Harold W. Thompson on the front free endpaper: "To / Dr. Thompson / a gold throne - angel / with shiny wings / Zora Neale Hurston." Some fading to the cloth and worn at corners and spine ends, faint scar to front free endpaper in a price-clipped dust jacket that has some restoration to the spine panel and joints. Harold William Thompson was the author of Body, Boots, & Britches: Folktales, Ballads, and Speech from Country New York. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A nice association copy, uncommon in the original dust jacket.