Bayou Folk

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards, with gilt titling and decoration; 313 pp.; No illustrations. Fair (Moderate wear to cloth. Hinges cracked. Binding shaken.). Item #144815

A collection of short stories set mostly in the Cane River country of Louisiana. Includes "Desiree's Baby," perhaps Chopin's best-known story, about the birth of a child with African American skin coloring to a white couple of ambiguous heritage. Rare.

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