The Big Gate
Chicago, IL: Precedent Publishing, 1976. Very Good Condition / Very Good Condition. Item #48524
ISBN: 0913750115
Chicago, IL: Precedent Publishing, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth in dust jacket; xiii,[3],95pp. Moderate chipping and wear to jacket margins, spine panel sunned, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound.
Scarce poetry collection by the Memphis-born author, the granddaughter of formerly enslaved people. Stuckey moved to Chicago with her family in 1945, where she "worked as a hat check girl, maid, rural school teacher, head nursery school teacher, and supervisor for the Illinois Department of Labor" (from the author bio on front jacket flap).
Price: $50.00