JONES, Leroi

Tales

New York: Grove Press, Inc., (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 132. Bound in full taupe cloth with black lettering stamped on spine. Book with a touch of dust soiling to top edge, else Fine. Dust jacket with a closed one-inch tear on the top edge of front panel. Near Fine / Very Good+. Item #1927

A superb copy of prose from Amiri Baraka, whose evolution from Beat writer to Black Nationalist to ardent Marxist warranted the appelation firebrand, while his body of work ranged from brilliant to writings less favorably reviewed. Stanley Crouch is on record as noting Baraka's sharpest work was written up to the late 1960s, including this title.

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