Play Ebony Play Ivory

by Henry Dumas

$500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Random House, 1974. First edition, wrappered issue. xxiii, i , 135 pp. Publisher's wraps. Near Fine, lightly rubbed along edges, shelf worn.The best-known collection of poetry by the late African American poet and short story writer, posthumously published. He was killed in 1968 on a subway platform by a cop under mysterious circumstances often oddly referred to as a case of mistaken identity. With the

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