The Quality of Hurt: The Autobiography of Chester Himes (Volume I)

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First Edition, stated. Octavo; [viii], 351pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; bound in brown and black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few shallow tears along edges and a couple longer ones at folds, some chipping at head of spine, toning along edges of flaps and to verso, and some general smudging and dust-soiling to surface. Boards are square with some fading along edges and light bumping at bottom corners and spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

First volume of Himes' autobiography. (Inventory #: 26708)