CONRAD, Earl

Rock Bottom

Garden City: Doubleday, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Blue-gray cloth boards, lettered in blue on spine; dustjacket; 320pp. Minor wear and soiling to board and text block edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy in somewhat worn jacket, rubbed with small chips at extremities, just VG.

Novel of the Great Migration from Mississippi to Harlem, by a white pro-Communist author. The book was criticized by African-Americans and Communists alike for its patronizing attitude toward poor urban Blacks.

Price: $20.00

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