LARSEN, Nella.
Quicksand.
"The world had changed to silver, and life ceased to be a struggle and became a gay adventure": First edition of Nella Larsen's Quicksand
New York & London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928.
$6,500.00
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Item Number: RRB-149548
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First edition of Nella Larsen's first book. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition. Rare and desirable.
The most obviously autobiographical of Larsen's two novels, Quicksand is the story of a bi-racial young woman who sets out on a mission to to find the people among whom she will feel she belongs. In a letter to close personal friend Carl van Vechten, Larsen referred to the emotional experiences of the novel as "the awful truth", as she herself struggled with finding a sense of belonging between the worlds of her Danish mother and African American father. In 1928, Quicksand earned Larsen the second prize for literature from the Harmon Foundation, established in 1922 to recognize African-American artists who otherwise would have remained largely unknown.
Quicksand.
$6,500.00
In Stock
