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A black teen-ager tries valiantly to keep her family together but sees her world collapse as her younger sisters reject her inept mothering.
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Edith Jackson
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The Viking Press, New York, 1978
ISBN 10: 067028906X
ISBN 13: 9780670289066
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Seller: Better Read Than Dead, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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Jacket painting by Leo and Diane Dillon (illustrator). First printing. Owner-inscribed by C.O.R.E. member and literary critic Doris Innis. Additional author inscription reads, 'In Peace and Love Rosa Guy 7/12/78'. Very good book; very good dust jacket Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound yellow cloth spine and brown boards, gilt spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, 187 pp. Seller Inventory # 1845
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Edith Jackson [Signed]
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Viking Press, New York, 1978
ISBN 10: 067028906X
ISBN 13: 9780670289066
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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. New York: Viking Press, [1978]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($8.95); [4],187pp. Jacket a bit worn along margins with one-inch tear at top edge of upper panel affecting text, textblock margins quite foxed; Good to Very Good overall. Signed by the author on title page. The third volume in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels for young adult readers by Rosa Guy, the Trinidadian-born author and cofounding member of the Harlem Writers Guild. Seller Inventory # 33881