first edition Hardcover
1970 · New York & Cleveland
by Scott-Heron, Gil
New York & Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. [x], 245 pp. Bound in publisher's red boards with black cloth backstrip with white and red spine lettering. Very Good with slight bump to textblock upper corner, remainder stamp to bottom edge, in an unclipped dust jacket with scratching to laminate on front panel (for some reason this book's jackets often have laminate issues), slightly creased along edges.Gil Scott-Heron's first novel. He is most-often remembered as a spoken word poet and the genre-spanning vocalist of such songs as "We Almost Lost Detroit" and "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
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