Old Rocking Chair

New York: Vantage Press, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 110pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with slight foxing on and near the flap folds. Written by an Afro-Cuban educated in South Carolina, A *Tales of the City*-like novel narrated by an older woman running an apartment building in Greenwich Village, who describes the world of "whores and pimps and homosexuals and lesbians... that is usually closed to outsiders." The author was a member of Katherine Dunham's School of Cultural Art and Dance, and made his living as a performer. *OCLC* locates eight copies.