Scarlet Sister Mary (Pulitzer Prize 1929)

329 pp. 8vo. Full burgundy leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by Charles Hamrick. The Pulitzer Prize winning story of an orphan growing up on an abandoned plantation amongst the Gullah people in South Carolina. The novel hinges on the struggle between being a member of the church and giving in to sinful urges.