Waters Edward Turpin, Dust jacket to O’Canaan!
Waters Edward Turpin
Dust jacket to O’Canaan
First edition
1939
8” x 19”
“An early novel about the great migration of Native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, formerly porter-clerk in a Harlem delicatessen, football coach, investigator for a WPA housing project, Waters E. Turpin is a Negro writer whose first book, THESE LOW GROUNDS, Edna Ferber called “Possibly the outstanding Negro novel of our day.” In O CANAAN! Mr. Turpin achieves new importance as a novelist.”