NY: Arno Press & The New York Times, 1971. 316pp. 8vo. Tan cloth; black spine titles; dust jacket. Offsetting, apparently adhesive-related, to gutters. Mild dust soiling to textblock top. Unclipped jacket with shallow chipping at spine ends, wear and creasing to hinges, rubbing and toning to rear. Very good (+) in very good jacket.
Reprint of the second and final novel, a murder mystery originally published in 1932, by a key participant in the Harlem Renaissance literary movement. Jacket design by Lajos Szalay.
