signed first edition Hardcover
1972 · Amherst
by Reed, Ishmael
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing, hardcover issue. Inscribed by Reed on title page to former owner, signed and dated October 29, 1979. xii, 83 pp. Red slick cloth covered boards with white lettering. Near Fine in Very Good or better price-clipped dust jacket, sunned near head. Cloth has closed thin, barely noticeable tear along spine edge. Uncommon first collection of the African-American writer's poems, published around the time of his novel Mumbo Jumbo.
(Inventory #: 170906001)