[Rarebooks] FS: Alice Childress, first book, Harlem novel, signed

[Bob Petrilla]

Childress, Alice. LIKE ONE OF THE FAMILY ... Conversations from a
domestic's life [signed].  Brooklyn, NY: Independence Publishers, (1956).
First Edition. pp: ix, 226; frontispiece portrait and dust wrapper by Bert
Silverman. Original red & gray boards; pictorial dust wrapper stained on
front from old transparent tape, now removed. 8.25" x 5.5" Very Good in
Good dust-jacket. Original Boards.
Inscribed on the front endpaper to Doris Abramson (historian of Black
Theater) "...with Best Wishes / Alice Childress." The scene of this novel
is Harlem, New York City. Author's first book.   $200.00

Trade discount 20%.  Postpaid in US.



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