If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance - Signed by Angela Davis

New York: Signet / New American Library, 1971. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Octavo (17.75cm); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; xviii,19-288pp. Signed by Angela Davis on the preliminary leaf, dated 10/9/96, with the additional note "No on 209" in her hand. Modest wear and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few faint creases to same, some dustiness to right edge of textblock, with a few faint splash marks along the lower edge; Very Good. Davis's first book, a collection of writings on legal trials and prisons, which she edited with Bettina Aptheker. "George Jackson, Ruchell Magee, Fleeta Drumgo, Julian Bond, Erika Huggins, Bobby Seale, James Baldwin, John Cluchette, Huey Newton, Bettina Aptheker, and others contributed essays to this collection which condemns prisons as instruments of political repression" (Suvak 389). The various contributors touch on conditions in Marin County Jail, Folsom, San Quentin, Connecticut Correctional Institute, and the New York House of Detention for Women. A key work giving voice to the American political prisoner. BLOCKSON 3081.