NEGROES IN BRITAIN: A Study of Racial Relations in English Society.

Second revised edition; first thus (originally published in 1948). Inscribed presentation copy from the author to the British historian George Shepperson. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout. In the dustwrapper, showing some light wear to edges and corners. Not price-clipped (£4.50 net to the front flap). A nice association copy. Inscribed in blue ink to the front free endpaper, "George, / But for whose encouragement / this fresh edition / might never have / been produced. / With many thanks / and best wishes / Kenneth Little / September 1972". The recipient is George "Sam" Shepperson (1922-2020), British historian, Africanist and William Robertson Professor of Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh from 1963 until 1986. Kenneth Little was a fellow professor at Edinburgh. In the Preface to the revised edition of this pioneering study, Little writes of the book's title that he knows "from a personal conversation with Mr. James Baldwin that the expression "Negro" is hateful to him and to many others [.]. It is possible that if I were writing about race relations in contemporary terms I should find some other expression [.], but I consider that [the book] has to be taken in its context." Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…