Blood on the Forge

New York: Collier Books, 1970. First Collier Books Edition. First Printing. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; xviii,237,[1]pp. Light wear to extremities, else very Near Fine. Attaway's second book, and a classic novel of postwar African-American migration, following the lives and careers of three southern brothers in their travels to the industrial North. Highly praised upon publication by the likes of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but long-neglected until a recent reissue by the New York Review of Books. This edition contains a lengthy introduction by Edward Margolies. HANNA 148, BLAKE p.271.