Coming of Age in Mississippi: An Autobiography

by Anne Moody

$250 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: The Dial Press, 1968. First edition. x, 348 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with purple lettering on spine. Very Good+ with small coffee stains to front board and bottom edge, tiny ink stain to fore edge, bumped corners, in a Very Good edge-worn dust jacket, a few closed tears, unclipped 5.95 . A memoir about growing up Black and female in '40s and '50s Mississippi and the author's awakening working for the

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