signed first edition
1960 · New York
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] ASHMORE, Harry S.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); dark red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[8],9-155,[3]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "For Daryl Grisham / Who crossed over the river and made a place for himself / with the admiration and respect of the author / Harry S. Ashmore." Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.50), with light wear to extremities, hint of sunning to the red band on the spine, and a tiny indentation to the lower front joint. An examination of the American race problem by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. The book looks at "the depressed mass of Negroes in the urban slums; at the rising colored middle class and its special frustrations; at the civil rights cacophony which has reached another climax...at the maze of extra-legal practices which still spell effective segregation in the face of contrary public policy; and at the frequent bewilderment of non-Southern whites who had suddenly found their equalitarian tradition put to the text" (from the flap text). BLOCKSON 3688. 82567.
(Inventory #: 82567)