The Pepper Trees: A Cycle of Three Stories
Kathleen Tankersley Young
Modern Editions Press Pamphlet Series (MSS 0099)
![Young, Kathleen Tankersley. The Pepper Trees: A Cycle of Three Stories, [1932], from the Modern Editions Press Pamphlet Series](https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/black-expression-in-black-and-white/wp-content/uploads/sites/284/2024/03/20_kathleen-tankersley-young_pepper-trees_1932-scaled.jpg "Young, Kathleen Tankersley. The Pepper Trees: A Cycle of Three Stories, [1932], from the Modern Editions Press Pamphlet Series")
The Modern Editions Press published two series of pamphlets under the editorship of Kathleen Tankersley Young in 1932 and 1933. Contributors to the series include Young, Paul Bowles, Bob Brown, Albert Harper, and more. The first series consisted of six pamphlets while the second and final series consisted of eight pamphlets.
Kathleen Tankersley Young was Black a author and poet during the Harlem Renaissance. Young was one of the founding publishers of the literary magazine Blues: A Magazine of New Rhymes with Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler. Displayed here is the “original setting typescript for pamphlet number four of the first series. This typescript includes three stories by Young titled, “The Pepper Trees,” “The City Under the Mountains,” and “Winter Lie Down in This Street.” The typescript is bound with brads in paper wrappers with a title page.” Additionally, the typescript bears revisions by the author and annotations by the printer.
(The information is derived from the finding aid. For more information, please refer to the finding aid.)
![Young, Kathleen Tankersley. The Pepper Trees: A Cycle of Three Stories, [1932], page 3, from the Modern Editions Press Pamphlet Series](https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/black-expression-in-black-and-white/wp-content/uploads/sites/284/2024/03/21_kathleen-tankersley-young_pepper-trees_1932-scaled.jpg "Young, Kathleen Tankersley. The Pepper Trees: A Cycle of Three Stories, [1932], page 3, from the Modern Editions Press Pamphlet Series")
