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Daddy Was A Number Runner.
Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1970
First Edition Signed
First edition of this modern classic â a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhoodâ in 1930s Harlem" (Publishers Weekly). Octavo, original cloth. Foreword by James Baldwin. Very good in a good dust jacket, name blacked out on the front pastedown and number to the front free endpaper. Jacket design by Bob Cuevas. Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and itâ s both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved â daddyâ of the title indeed becomes a number runner when he is unable to find legal work, and while one of Francieâ s brothers dreams of becoming a chemist, the other is already in a gang. Francie is a dreamer, too, but there are risks in everything from going to the movies to walking down the block, and her pragmatism eventually outweighs her hope; â We was all poor and black and apt to stay that way, and that was that.â .
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{Association Copy} Daddy Was a Number Runner
Published by Prentice Hall, New York, 1970
ISBN 10: 0131971034ISBN 13: 9780131971035
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. SCARCE Association Copy, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -"to Janet Saxe, Best of Luck Teaching Black Literature. Louise Meriwether April 1972". Louise Meriwether (born1923) is an African-American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist. Daddy Was a Number Runner is her critically acclaimed first book, and the first novel to come out of the Watts Writers' Workshop. Considered an underappreciated classic, it is her fictional account of a year in the life of a 12 year old girl growing up in Harlem during the Great Depression. "It risks offending people by taking up such issues such as police brutality, the unemployment situation, the desperation caused by the Depression and the different ways that the Blacks and whites are treated by society." (Ishmael Reed, The New York Times, June 18, 2021 "A Novel From 70 Is Still Resonant"). Janet (Cheatham) Saxe (Bell) is an African-American educator, author and independent scholar who in 1972 was an associate editor of "The Black Scholar". First Edition, First Printing, 1970. The book is Near Fine, crease to cloth at head of spine, in a Very Good dust jacket, wear and chips at edges and folds. Signed copies of any of Meriwether's books are rare in current commerce, and RBH shows no records of any signed copies of this title. Held in 574 libraries worldwide and currently in print, published by Virago Press under the summary "A compelling coming-of-age story set in 1930s Harlem, Daddy was a Number Runner is a seminal text in the African-American canon of literature." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Association Copy.
