Charles Duncan
The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt.
Ohio University Press, 1998. First printing. 0821412396 xx/214 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) in many ways established the terms of the black literary tradition now exemplified by such writers as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Charles Johnson."