The Future of the Race

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21cm); black and white dust jacket with $21.00 price intact; boards in black cloth with gilt lettering;[xviii],196pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn with some faint scratching and dust soiling to surface. Boards rubbed along bottom rear edge, with some nudging to corners and spine ends. A couple faint smudges to textblock edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Signed by both Gates and West, with inscription by West "To Sis' Betty, Stay Strong! Love, Cornell West.