Look for Me in the Whirlwind : The Collective Autobiography of the New York 21
Balagoon, Kuwasi, et al.; Haywood Burns, introduction
A collection of first-person accounts by sixteen of the twenty-one Black Panther members indicted in 1969 for an alleged plan to bomb public buildings in New York City. All of the defendants were ultimately found not guilty following a lengthy and very public eight-month trial. Sharp copy of an uncommon title.
NY: Random House, 1971. First edition. Octavo, 8-1/2 x 5-3/4 in. xv, 364pp. Black cloth boards, copper spine lettering; in dust jacket. Light bumping to spine ends and bottom rear board corner. A couple of minor spots of soiling to textblock fore-edge. Else fine in a near fine, unclipped ("$8.95") jacket with light wear at head of spine and bottom rear tip.