The Life & Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger

by Cecil Brown

$50 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm ; black cloth, with titles stamped in white and orange on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; 213pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with a discreet vertical crease along rear flap. Brown's first book, a smooth-talking novel of 1960's Black culture in America, which follows its protagonist

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