Spirits in the Street
Garden City: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1973. Very Good / Very Good. Item #47657
ISBN: 0385032935
Garden City: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1973. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; boards in blindstamped blue and gray cloth with black lettering to spine; 192pp; illus by the author throughout. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, with some smudging to surface and toning down spine and folds. Boards bumped at spine ends. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Library of Congress Copyright Office stamp dted DEc 12 1973 on copyright page, with Surplus Duplicate stamp on front free endpaper; no other library markings.
Author's second book, a young adult novel summarized by Dr. Lovalerie King as "a young Harlemite insider's poetic reminiscence expressing a range of emotions from outrage over Vietnam- and Nixon-era events to a joyous embracing of that part of the self which is of African origin." [The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, 2001].
Price: $100.00