Mister Fish Kelly
D. Appleton and Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Item #303842
ISBN: B000NOYOL4
348 pages. 'This book is unusual in that it is a full length novel treating of negro life from the angle of humor. Its picture of a Negro character in his native southern environment is accurate and filled with laughable situations. Mister Fish Kelly isa delight - youngish, thin and ebony black, and naturally given to the lugubrious. One sees him under the complete moral and physical domination of a stout bacon-colored gentleman known interchangeably as 'Rverend' or 'Lawyer' Little. Fish Kelly finds a living in carrying out Lawyer's schemes and is a vassal used none too kindly by the domineering gentleman...Yet a day of emancipationcomes, and one reads with chuckles of how Fish sought freedom through marriage with the splendid Miss Macedonia Clinton, only to find that a father-in-law can be as grimly exacting as any poor, peace loving soul can imagine. The climax of Fish's adventures comes when he turns the tables on both his persecutors.' - from the front dust jacket flyleaf. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy blue cloth covers with dark blueruling and lettering on front cover and spine. Booplate of prior owner on front pastedown. in a very good silhouette decorated dust jacket. Dust jacket with brown adhesive paper repairs mostly on inside but some extending on to front. Jacket with edge and corner wear and edge chips.
Price: $120.00