[Item #24418] Hue and Cry [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. James Alan McPHERSON.

Hue and Cry [Signed Bookplate Laid in]

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, [1969]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed boards in white decorative dust jacket; [10],275pp. General dustiness to jacket, minor rubbing to upper panel lettering, tiny split at bottom of rear spine edge, corners just a hint bumped, else Fine in Very Good jacket. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.

African American author's first book, a collection of short stories, with a long blurb by Ralph Ellison to rear jacket panel. McPherson's 1978 short story collection Elbow Room would win the Pulitzer Prize, making him the first black recipient of the award for fiction.

Price: $400.00

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