Brown Rabbit: Her Story. Morse, Evangeline.

First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the half-title. Signed copies of Morse's first and only novel are uncommon. The story centres around a 10-year-old Black girl, nicknamed "Brown Rabbit", whose family move from a small town in the South to a ghetto in an industrial city in the North; it is is attractively illustrated by David Stone Martin, one of the most influential sleeve designers in jazz history. Evangeline Morse (1913-2004) graduated from Talledega College, an elite Black liberal arts college, followed by a master's degree at the Chicago Theological Seminary. As well as this novel (the corrected typescript of which is held at the University of Minnesota archive), she published a collection of poetry, Feeda My Soul. Morse became a social worker and established the E. F. Morse Young Writer's Award Fund to assist high school students in improving their writing skills. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in brown, vignette on front cover in brown. With dust jacket. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations to text by David Stone Martin. A near-fine copy, a few faint marks to spine, contents clean and fresh, in the very good jacket, unclipped, some wear to spine panel and couple of marks, otherwise bright.