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Bookseller

Better Read Than Dead (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

1861

Title

Home

Author

LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka]

Illustrator

Jacket design by Cynthia Basil; jacket photo by Robert Adelman; author photo Leroy McLucas

Format/Binding

Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound black cloth spine and gray boards, white spine titles, red end papers, pictorial dust jacket,

Book Condition

Used - Good book, title page ink markings, text block separation to rear board; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped and creased,

Quantity Available

1

Edition

First edition

Binding

Hardcover

Publisher

William Morrow and Co

Place of Publication

New York

Date Published

1966

Keywords

LeRoi Jones, Amiri Baraka, Home

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