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Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem

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Cotton Comes to Harlem

by Himes, Chester

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ISBN 10
0394759990
ISBN 13
9780394759999
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New York: No Date.: Vintage Books. Recent reprint in trade paperback. Minor rubbing to covers. Near Fine.

Synopsis

Cotton Comes to Harlem is the sixth and best known of Chester Himes’ Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries. It was later adapted into a film starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx, that touted Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed as “Two Detectives Only a Mother Could Love.” When a con-man rigs the collection of a Back-To-Africa rally, money is hi-jacked by white gunman and hidden in a cotton bale. That bale becomes the center of the investigation, set against the backdrop of 1960s Harlem. Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are Blind Man with a Pistol , Cotton Comes to Harlem , The Crazy Kill , A Rage in Harlem , The Real Cool Killers , and The Heat's On . - -

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Bookseller
Ken Jackson CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
254393
Title
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Author
Himes, Chester
Format/Binding
Trade Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0394759990
ISBN 13
9780394759999
Publisher
Vintage Books.
Place of Publication
New York: No Date.
This edition first published
1988-11-28
Keywords
LITERATURE BW2-1
Bookseller catalogs
Mystery Literature and First Editions;

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Trade Paperback
Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
Fine
A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Reprint
Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Rubbing
Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.

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