first edition
1979 · New York
by Dumas, Henry
New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition. First edition. (First printing with full number line ending at 2 as per publisher's practice and stated "First edition.") x, 181 pp. Bound in publisher's cream-colored boards with purple cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with dust-soiled edges, remainder mark on top edge, lacking jacket.
An uncommon posthumously-published collection of short stories by the African American poet and writer shot dead at age 34 by a New York Transit Police Officer in 1968. (Inventory #: 140942937)
An uncommon posthumously-published collection of short stories by the African American poet and writer shot dead at age 34 by a New York Transit Police Officer in 1968. (Inventory #: 140942937)