The Bookers collected and edited this 162 page (text only) work that speaks to the `black experience. The writers represent prisoners, workers and academics - i.e. a BROAD range of views and talents. There are 9 sections to the book and some of those are headed: ` In the Ghetto Maze', ` Teachers, I've Tried', and ` Life - Death - With Tones and Half Tones Between'. Notes on authors, the Bookers and artists at back - 10 pages. Each section of the book is lead off by a B/W illus. - e.g. `United' (p. 74) - ink drawing by Wiliam Battle. Cond: BLACK boards with green and red (spine) lettering. Dark brown paper wrapper over with a black man's portrait by William Harris III. Former is bright, clean and tight with NO wear. Sticker residue and (pen) marks on end paper (brown). D.J. is lightly worn at edges - esp. top edge w/ one 1 inch tear. Sli. chipped and one tear back. Good at spine, bright and clean. Not price clipped. No names nor marks - internal. Tight in binding. FIRST edition. Quote: (p. 62) " Inside of me is good, but the outside of me is bad. When I get in my devilish moods, the inside of me explodes and I break bad with other people. Inside . ." (Rudolph Douglass - What Am I Really Like Inside) Size: 8vo.

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Title

Cry at Birth

Publisher

McGraw Hill, N. Y.

Publication Date

1971

Language

English

ISBN 10

0070064962

ISBN 13

9780070064966

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Miriam McGee et al

Edition

First (English).

Condition

VG++

Dust Jacket Condition

VG+

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