Human Kindness by Johnson Eugene (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 142pp. Cloth. Rubberstamp acquisition date and name on front fly, else fine in price-clipped near fine dust jacket lightly faded on the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's review slip laid into the book. Albemarle County, Virginia-born African-American author's novel is set in Harlem, where the protagonist, Polly Lou, creates "a free child care center serving working mothers." Uncommon. Issued by a subsidized press who were paid by the authors, sometimes known as a vanity press, the authors were largely responsible for their own marketing and consequently very few copies were usually distributed.