University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1978, reprint.  ISBN 0-252-00686-0.  Trade soft cover, 286 pages.  Good plus; wraps show a bit of edge and cover wear; binding sound; book store stamp on first page, inked names in top margin of last ad page; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  50^th Anniversary Edition.  A young black girl, Janie, relates to a friend her story of growing up in the 1930s in Florida, three marriages, and her eventual independence.  ‘... is one of the most poetic works of fiction by a black writer in the first half of the twentieth century and one of the most revealing treatments in modern literature of a woman’s quest for a satisfying life.’ (from rear wrap)