first edition
1991 · San Diego / New York / London
by Hamilton, Virginia; Moser, Barry
San Diego / New York / London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Very good plus.. First edition of these collected tales of Hamilton's beloved trickster character, Jahdu. Early in her career, Hamilton released her first Jahdu book, THE TIME-AGO TALES OF JAHDU to much acclaim; over the years, she added more stories about her trickster, many of which are collected here with new illustrations by Barry Moser. Of the first group included here, THE NEW YORK TIMES noted, "the four stories are nothing less than a history of the black man's changing role in American society" (Dorothy M. Broderick, 12 October 1969). A nostalgic combination of the mythic and the (truncated)