The Black Letters: Love Letters from a Black Soldier in Viet Nam [Jacket title: The Blackletters: Love Letters from a Black Soldier in Vietnam]
Washington, DC: Nuclassics and Science Publishing Company, 1972. Very Good Condition / Very Good-. Item #48519
Washington, DC: Nuclassics and Science Publishing Company, [1972]. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket by Cleo Bentley retaining original price ($4.50); [8],72pp. Dust jacket spine panel chipped and toned, moderate dust-soil; overall a Very Good copy in a Good or better example of the jacket.
Epistolary novella of a Black South Carolina Vietnam soldier and his sweetheart, written by two members of the Physics Department at Howard University. The co-author Carl L. Shears was the proprietor of the Nuclassics and Science Publishing Company, which also put out two of his more afrocentric works published pseudonymously under the name Saggitarus.
Price: $75.00