Jonoah and the Green Stone
- New York: Random House, 1976
New York: Random House, 1976. Very Good/Very Good +. New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition Stated with full RH number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket by Mike Stromberg retaining original price ($7.95); xxi,[1],168pp. Light shelf wear, textblock top and fore-edge quite foxed, else a Very Good, straight and sound example.
Scarce first edition of this unfinished novel published posthumously eight years after Dumas' untimely death in 1968--the author was passing through a New York City subway turnstile when a transit cop shot and killed him at the age of thirty-three. "Before that happened, however, he had written some of the most beautiful, moving, and profound poetry and fiction that I have ever in my life read" (Toni Morrison, "On Behalf of Henry Dumas," in Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 2, no. 22, Summer, 1988).
Scarce first edition of this unfinished novel published posthumously eight years after Dumas' untimely death in 1968--the author was passing through a New York City subway turnstile when a transit cop shot and killed him at the age of thirty-three. "Before that happened, however, he had written some of the most beautiful, moving, and profound poetry and fiction that I have ever in my life read" (Toni Morrison, "On Behalf of Henry Dumas," in Black American Literature Forum, Vol. 2, no. 22, Summer, 1988).
Details
Title
Jonoah and the Green Stone
Author
Henry Dumas; Eugene B. Redmond [arrangement]
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
Random House: New York
Date
1976