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Black Bondage: A Novel of a Doomed Negro in Today's South
by Davis, Joseph A
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Exposition Press, 1959. Novel of a working-class Black man, son of a loveless marriage, whose innate anger, goaded by racism, leads to his downfall, despite heroic military service in World War Two. Davis, born & educated in South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C., was a clergyman and Army Chaplain; this is (as far as we can determine) his only published novel, which, like those of many Black writers in the nascent civil rights era, failed to break through to wide acclaim. While some cataloguers refer to Exposition Press as a 'vanity press' (authors paid to have their work published), the gatekeeping of white publishers often left Black authors no other choice. Rather than reflecting the interests & concerns of such publishers, and perhaps of less 'literary' merit, these scarce publications show the deep interests of Black writers of the period. Hardcover in jacket. Light wear to book, bookplate on free endsheet; jacket shows a little edgewear, minor chipping, some rubbing; pages lightly tanned. Text clean; 175 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- v0389
- Title
- Black Bondage: A Novel of a Doomed Negro in Today's South
- Author
- Davis, Joseph A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Exposition Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Modern First Edition, Racism, Crime, Capital Punishment, Vernacular Fiction, Black Authors
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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- Octavo
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Bookplate
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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