The Dragon Has Come" [Inscribed]

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); red cloth, titled in black and yellow on spine; dustjacket; xiv,238,[2]pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "For Harriet / Who lives in me almost as if she were a part of myself / Love always / Gregory." A bit of softening to spine ends, corners gently bumped (though still sharp), with some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), shelfworn and dust-soiled, with a few small tears and attendant creases, and a faint, shallow dampstain along the upper edge of the front panel; Very Good. Biography of revolutionary black activist George Jackson, by his close friend and the editor of Jackson's prison memoir Soledad Brother (1970). Armstrong describes himself as the "guy...[that] gave [Jackson] something he wanted more than anything else, an existence outside of prison. His book was the closest he ever got to escape...there was something we shared which overrode all our differences. Our mutual desperation made us brothers..." Jackson was murdered by prison guards at San Quentin in 1971. BLOCKSON 2742. 82490. (Inventory #: 82490)