Generating more questions than answers, that book did little to illuminate the woman behind such works as " Jonah's Gourd Vine, " and her 1937 masterpiece, " Their Eyes Were Watching God ."
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The Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend in Gwinnett County offers first editions of Frankenstein, Zora Neale Hurston's " Jonah's Gourd Vine, " and an others at prices ranging from $ 5 to $ 250, 000 . ( O'Briant, Atlanta Journal-Constitution ) 21.
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Among the selections are an autograph book signed by Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass for $ 30, 000, the first American edition of " Frankenstein " for $ 35, 000, and a first edition of Zora Neale Hurston's novel " Jonah's Gourd Vine " for $ 12, 500.
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Hurston's first three novels were published in the 1930s : " Jonah's Gourd Vine " ( 1934 ); " Their Eyes Were Watching God " ( 1937 ), written during her fieldwork in Haiti and considered her masterwork; and " Moses, Man of the Mountain " ( 1939 ).
