Floodtide by Frank Yerby (GT591)

Published 1952: Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original maroon cloth with black titles on the spine. 276 clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, first free page missing, speckled foxing on the endpapers. Covers slightly rubbed with time consistent with age. (GT591)

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The author's fifth novel, concerning a young man born into the poverty of Natchez-Under-the-Hill who schemes and fights his way up to join the slave owner plantation elite of Mississippi.

It was ranked seventh on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels that year. Like many of his works of the era it is set in the South during the nineteenth century.

Born in Augusta, Georgia, Frank Yerby (1916-91) rose to fame as a writer of popular fiction tinged with a distinctive southern flavour. He was the first African American to write a series of best-selling novels and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation. During his prolific career, Yerby wrote thirty-three novels and sold more than fifty-five million hardback and paperback books worldwide. (Google Books)