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A moving presentation in her own words of the life of an African-American woman who rose from poverty to become an author whose work is read the world over is accompaned by an inspiring foreword by acclaimed poet Maya Angelou. Reissue. 20,000 first printing.
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Hardcover:

9780060167264 | Harpercollins, April 1, 1998, cover price $22.50

Paperback:

9780060854089 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 2006), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Presents the story of an African American woman who rose from poverty to become an author who held a prominent place among the artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.
9780060921682 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 1996), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In the restored text established by the Library of America, critically acclaimed novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston recalls her life
9789990105032 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 1996), cover price $0.02 | also contains Dust Tracks on a Road

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Product Description: First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance...read more
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Hardcover:

9780809592029, titled "Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography" | Borgo Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: First published in 1942 at the height of her popularity, Dust Tracks on a Road is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.

Paperback:

9780060965679 | Reprint edition (Perennial, January 1, 1991), cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Critically acclaimed novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston recalls her impoverished childhood, her successful career as an anthropologist, and her early attempts at writing
9780252010477, titled "Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography" | 2 edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, January 1, 1985), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A Southern novelist recalls her impoverished childhood, her successful career as an anthropologist, and her first attempts at writing

Reinforced:

9780606046596 | Demco Media, January 1, 1991, cover price $23.46 | About this edition: Critically acclaimed novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston recalls her impoverished childhood, her successful career as an anthropologist, and her early attempts at writing

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A retelling of the story of Moses serves as an allegory for the struggle of American Blacks for release from slavery
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Hardcover:

9780809590339 | Borgo Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song to create a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith.

Paperback:

9780060919948 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 1991), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A retelling of the story of Moses serves as an allegory for the struggle of American Blacks for release from slavery
9780252011221, titled "Moses: Man of the Mountain" | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, December 1, 1984), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A retelling of the story of Moses serves as an allegory for the struggle of American Blacks for release from slavery

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9780833570000 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.80 | About this edition: A retelling of the story of Moses serves as an allegory for the struggle of American Blacks for release from slavery

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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more
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Paperback:

9781434687968 | Lightning Source Inc, January 31, 2008, cover price $18.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781434687975 | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, January 31, 2008), cover price $19.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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Miscellaneous:

9780061741807 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $9.99

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John Buddy Pearson, a young Black man who becomes a popular pastor at Zion Hope, is unable to reconcile his good intentions and his natural instincts
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Hardcover:

9780783802558 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, September 1, 1998), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: John Buddy Pearson, a young Black man who becomes a popular pastor at Zion Hope, is unable to reconcile his good intentions and his natural instincts

Paperback:

9780061350191 | Harpercollins, January 1, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Jonah's Gourd Vine, Zora Neale Hurston's first novel, originally published in 1934, tells the story of John Buddy Pearson, "a living exultation" of a young man who loves too many women for his own good.
9780060916510 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 1990), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: John Buddy Pearson, a young Black man who becomes a popular pastor at Zion Hope, is unable to reconcile his good intentions and his natural instincts

Miscellaneous:

9780061865831 | Harpercollins, October 13, 2009, cover price $9.99

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Paperback:

9780913666333 | Turtle Island Books, June 1, 1981, cover price $8.95
9780686969020 | Turtle Island Foundation, June 1, 1981, cover price $8.95

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Product Description: Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery...read more
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Hardcover:

9780809590186 | Reprint edition (Borgo Pr, December 1, 1990), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Set intimately within the social context of black life, this is a collection of stories, "big old lies," songs, voodoo customs and superstitions passed down through oral tradition.
9780253339324 | Indiana Univ Pr, July 1, 1978, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Hurston recounts her experiences collecting Afro-American folklore and offers some seventy folk tales and a series of hoodoo rituals
9780837120003 | Reprint edition (Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1978), cover price $38.50 | About this edition: Set intimately within the social context of black life, this is a collection of stories, "big old lies," songs, voodoo customs and superstitions passed down through oral tradition.

Paperback:

9780061350177 | Harpercollins, January 1, 2008, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Mules and Men is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery.
9780060916480 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, March 1, 1990), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Hurston recounts her experiences collecting Afro-American folklore and offers some seventy folk tales and a series of hoodoo rituals

Prebinding:

9780833570130 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $23.90 | About this edition: Hurston recounts her experiences collecting Afro-American folklore and offers some seventy folk tales and a series of hoodoo rituals

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Product Description: Simply the most exciting book on black folklore and culture I have ever read.'Roger D. AbrahamsMules and Men is the first great collection of black America's folk world. In the 1930's, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her native village of Eatonville, Florida to record the oral histories, sermons and songs, dating back to the time of slavery, which she remembered hearing as a child...read more
By Ruby Dee (narrator) and Zora Neale Hurston
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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559945486 | Caedmon Audio Cassette, February 1, 1992, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Simply the most exciting book on black folklore and culture I have ever read.

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Product Description: One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom...read more
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Hardcover:

9780060199494 | Harpercollins, November 1, 2000, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: When Janie Starks returns home, she seeks identity and independence as the small southern black community buzzes with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man.
9780783818849 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, September 1, 1996), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When Janie Starks returns home, the small Black community buzzes with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man
9781568496252 | Buccaneer Books, April 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom.
9780252017780 | Reprint edition (Univ of Illinois Pr, October 1, 1991), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: When Janie Starks returns home, the small Black community buzzes with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man

Paperback:

9780061120060 | Harpercollins, June 1, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom.
9780060838676 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, January 1, 2006), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: When Janie Starks returns to her rural Florida home, her small black community is overwhelmed with curiosity about her relationship with a younger man.
9789990018561 | Perennial, July 1, 2000, cover price $0.02 | also contains Their Eyes Were Watching God
9780072434224 | McGraw-Hill College, June 1, 2000, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: When Janie Starks returns to her rural Florida home, her small black community is overwhelmed with curiosity about her relationship with a younger man.
9780060931414 | Reissue edition (Perennial, December 1, 1998), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When Janie Starks returns to her rural Florida home, her small black community is overwhelmed with curiosity about her relationship with a younger man.
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CD/Spoken Word:

9780060776534 | Unabridged edition (Caedmon Audio Cassette, December 1, 2004), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559945004 | Abridged edition (Caedmon Audio Cassette, November 1, 1991), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: “Hurston's prose is newly invigorated by Dee's reading .

Prebinding:

9780833564399 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $23.80 | About this edition: When Janie Starks returns to her rual Florida home, her small Black community is overwhelmed with curiosity about her relationship with a younger man

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Product Description: As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide. Based on Zora Neale Hurston's personal experiences in Haiti and Jamaica, where she participated as an initiate rather than just an observer of voodoo practices during her visits in the 1930s, this travelogue into a dark world paints a vividly authentic picture of ceremonies and customs and superstitions of great cultural interest...read more
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Hardcover:

9780809590209 | Borgo Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: As a first-hand account of the weird mysteries and horrors of voodoo, Tell My Horse is an invaluable resource and fascinating guide.

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Product Description: Acclaimed for her pitch-perfect accounts of rural black life and culture, Zora Neale Hurston explores new territory with her novel Seraph on the Suwanee—a story of two people at once deeply in love and deeply at odds, set among the community of "Florida Crackers" at the turn of the twentieth century...read more
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Hardcover:

9780809590322 | Borgo Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Acclaimed for her pitch-perfect accounts of rural black life and culture, Zora Neale Hurston explores new territory with her novel Seraph on the Suwanee—a story of two people at once deeply in love and deeply at odds, set among the community of "Florida Crackers" at the turn of the twentieth century.

Paperback:

9780061651113 | Harpercollins, December 1, 2008, cover price $14.99 | also contains Seraph on the Suwanee | About this edition: Acclaimed for her pitch-perfect accounts of rural black life and culture, Zora Neale Hurston explores new territory with her novel Seraph on the Suwanee—a story of two people at once deeply in love and deeply at odds, set among the community of "Florida Crackers" at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Product Description: "Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur. Recall a front stoop, juke joint, funeral, wedding, barbershop, kitchen: the music, noise, communal energy, and release. Dream. Participate the way you do when you allow a song to transport you, all kinds of songs, from hip-hop rap to Bach to Monk, each bearing its different history of sounds and silences...read more
By Carla Kaplan (editor) and John Edgar Wideman (foreword by)
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Paperback:

9780060934545 | Reprint edition (Perennial, October 1, 2002), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: A book of folktales about love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected in the late 1920s, represents a large part of the author's literary legacy and details African American life in the rural South.

Prebinding:

9781439568439 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $21.95 | also contains Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States | About this edition: "Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur.

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Product Description: "Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur. Recall a front stoop, juke joint, funeral, wedding, barbershop, kitchen: the music, noise, communal energy, and release. Dream. Participate the way you do when you allow a song to transport you, all kinds of songs, from hip-hop rap to Bach to Monk, each bearing its different history of sounds and silences...read more
By Carla Kaplan (editor)
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Hardcover:

9780060188931 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, December 1, 2001), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A book of folktales about love, slavery, faith, family, race, and community, collected in the late 1920s, represents a large part of the author's literary legacy and details African American life in the rural South.

Prebinding:

9781439568439 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $21.95 | also contains Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States | About this edition: "Imagine the situations in which these speech acts occur.

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Product Description: Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature. Best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, she also published numerous short stories and essays, three other novels, and two books on black folklore...read more
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Hardcover:

9780813542911 | Rutgers Univ Pr, June 30, 2008, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature.

Paperback:

9780813542928 | Rutgers Univ Pr, June 30, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Though she died penniless and forgotten, Zora Neale Hurston is now recognized as a major figure in African American literature.

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Hardcover:

9780060167288 | Harpercollins, February 15, 1998, cover price $19.95

Paperback:

9780060921705 | Harpercollins, March 28, 2011, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: "Excerpt from the book..."SETTING: The raised porch of JOE CLARK'S Store and the street infront. Porch stretches almost completely across the stage, with aplank bench at either end. At the center of the porch three stepsleading from street...read more
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9781428074514 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2007, cover price $69.99 | About this edition: "Excerpt from the book.

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When two brave children, a courageous grandmother, and a number of protective dogs stumble upon three bad witches with a hearty appetite, collective wits and bravery will be essential to keep the family free from harm.
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Hardcover:

9780060006495 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Three hungry witches set out to eat two orphaned children while their grandmother is away at the market.

Library:

9780060006501 | Harpercollins, August 1, 2006, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Three hungry witches set out to eat two orphaned children while their grandmother is away at the market.

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Based on a story collected by the author during her travels along the Gulf States, a tale finds a young man searching for three people more foolish than his fiancée and her parents.
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Hardcover:

9780060006464 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, January 1, 2006, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A young man searches for three people more foolish than his fiancâee and her parents.

Library:

9780060006471 | Harpercollins, January 1, 2006, cover price $18.89 | About this edition: A young man searches for three people more foolish than his fiancâee and her parents.

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Presents a compilation of tall tales collected by folklorist Zora Neale Hurston during her travels in the Gulf states during the 1930s.
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Hardcover:

9780060006556 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A compilation of tall tales collected by folklorist Zora Neale Hurston during her travels in the Gulf states during the 1930s.

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After building himself a turbocharged, non-collision automobile, Roy Tyle--the best mechanic in the state of Florida--builds a vehicle with wings, which flies up to Heaven and that God buys on the spot.
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School and Library:

9780689846403 | Atheneum, January 6, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Roy Tyle, the best mechanic in the state of Florida, can clean spark plugs just by looking at them, and he takes a two dollar bet that he can make an accident-proof car.

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Inspired by stories from the rural south, a collection of terrifying tales includes a skinless witch, a talking skull, and a man more evil than the devil, as collected by the famous African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston.
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Hardcover:

9780060006310 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Inspired by stories from the rural south, a collection of terrifying tales includes a skinless witch, a talking skull, and a man more evil than the devil, as collected by the famous African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston.

Library:

9780060006341 | Harpercollins, August 1, 2004, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Inspired by stories from the rural south, a collection of terrifying tales includes a skinless witch, a talking skull, and a man more evil than the devil, as collected by the famous African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston.

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Product Description: One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom...read more
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Hardcover:

9780821927366 | Emc Pub, July 26, 2004, cover price $19.93 | About this edition: One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom.

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Inspired by the tales of rural Southerners, a colorful collection of animal tales provides answers to common curiosities, such as why cats and dogs dislike one another, from the author of I Have Heard of a Land.
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Hardcover:

9780060006433 | 1 edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, April 1, 2004), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Presents a volume of pourquoi tales collected by Zora Neale Hurston from her field research in the Gulf states in the 1920s.

Library:

9780060006440 | Harpercollins, April 1, 2004, cover price $16.89 | About this edition: Presents a volume of pourquoi tales collected by Zora Neale Hurston from her field research in the Gulf states in the 1920s.

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A groundbreaking collection of more than five hundred letters, written to such people as Langston Hughes, Dorothy West, Fannie Hurst, and many others, paints an intimate portrait of the enigmatic woman who became one of the greatest literary figures in American history. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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Hardcover:

9780385490351 | Doubleday, October 1, 2002, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A collection of more than five hundred letters, written to such people as Langston Hughes, Dorothy West, and many others, paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman who became one of the greatest literary figures in American history.

Paperback:

9780385490368 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, December 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of more than five hundred letters, written to such people as Langston Hughes, Dorothy West, and many others, paints a portrait of the enigmatic woman who became one of the greatest literary figures in American history.

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