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“FATHER’S CROSS WAS A NEATLY CARPENTERED SCAFFOLD IN VIRGINIA”: CLOUDSPLITTER, SIGNED BY BANKS

BANKS, Russell. Cloudsplitter. (New York): HarperFlamingo, (1998). Octavo, original half gray paper over stiff white paper-covered boards, pictorial endpapers, original dust jacket.

First edition, signed by the author on the title page.

“A novel of near-biblical proportions about the abolitionist freedom fighter John Brown? The book has an underlying tidal flow that rolls the story inevitably forward? The gathering winds of war aren’t accompanied by flashy lightning bolts. Its thunderheads boil up gradually in the distance, amassing their fury in God’s good time, not man’s” (New York Times).

A fine signed copy.