PINKTOES.
by Himes, Chester
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Good overall -an inexpensively produced book with significant toning to the pages, some wear to the covers, a few ink marks on r
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Covina, CA:: Collectors Publication,, 1968.. First edition -. Good overall -an inexpensively produced book with significant toning to the pages, some wear to the covers, a few ink marks on rear cover.. First thus - a pocket paperback. Himes' first work of absurdism, a sexual farce featuring, Mamie Mason, Ôthe uptown hostess with the mostessÕ, loosely based on his cousin Mollie Moon, whose decadent interracial parties had helped promote the cause of Ôcivil rights in the bedroom,' A novel "intended as a satire on middle class Negroes and their white sponsors" according to Himes, this was his first bestseller. This copy claims to be the "First American Printing" (although clearly it was not) and complete and unexpurgated. 208 pp plus 24 pp of publisher's ads.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83672
- Title
- PINKTOES.
- Author
- Himes, Chester
- Format/Binding
- First edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good overall -an inexpensively produced book with significant toning to the pages, some wear to the covers, a few ink marks on r
- Publisher
- Collectors Publication,
- Place of Publication
- Covina, CA:
- Date Published
- 1968.
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American Literature;
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- First Edition
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