first edition Hardcover
1961 · New York
by Williams, John A.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. Hardcover. 219p., ownership signature on front free endpaper, offset from tape on free endpapers else good first edition stated in boards with cloth spine, in unclipped dust jacket with mild toning and a paper strip repair of short closed tear on back of jacket. Second novel by the author, inspired by Charlie "Bird" Parker. James Baldwin blurb on front of jacket. (Inventory #: 10829)