FIRBANK, RONALD. — Prancing Nigger.

London: Duckworth, 1931. Originally published in England under the title "Sorrow in Sunlight", it was published in America under the title "Prancing Nigger" which was subsequently used as the title for this first New Readers Library edition. It is set in a Caribbean republic (compounded of Cuba and Haiti). A socially ambitious black family move from their rural home to the capital, and the story is concerned with their attempts, which prove mainly abortive, to 'get into society'. Pp.126/15(publisher's catalogue), pencil ownership details to front free endpaper, toning to endpapers, spotting to closed page edges occasionally encroachng onto margins. Blue cloth, orange dustwrapper a little dusty. Scarce in this edition. G+/G+.