Grier, William H., and Price M. Cobbs. Black Rage.NY: Basic Books, 1968. First edition (no additional printings stated on copyright page). Octavo; viii, 213pp.; full black cloth, in dust jacket.
Light foxing to fore-edge of textblock; some offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps, else about near fine in a near fine jacket lightly tanned along top edge.
A culturally important work, written in the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., which examines the psychological effects of systemic racism of black Americans. Though the book enjoyed numerous early reprints, true firsts are somewhat uncommon.