first edition
1972 · New York
by HAMILTON, Charles V.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1972. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21.5cm); gray paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in white and gray on spine; dustjacket; [x],246pp. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, with mild tanning to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, else a Very Good+ example. First full-length work every published on the subject. "This book is about a figure who has been, and remains, one of the most praised and most condemned persons in American society: the black preacher" (from front flap). Touches on subjects little and widely-known, from Nat Turner to Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Somewhat uncommon in the cloth issue. (Inventory #: 35416)