My Country and I: The Interracial Experiences of an American Negro with Essays on Interracial Understanding [Lengthily Inscribed]

New York: Exposition Press, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light grey cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [7],8-96pp. Signed by the author with his Chicago address at lower front pastedown (possibly one of his own copies), and lengthily inscribed by him on the front endpaper: "Jan. 6, 65 / To David M. Braggins / My autograph to you and yours / My last remembrance of you was as a toddling baby, just waddling around like a little duckling / As a boy, I often visited my mother as she served your mother in Cleveland, Ohio. I remember your father and brothers, Bob and Dick / All these memories (truncated) are and will always be sweetly sentimental to me / God bless you and your family / May your children comfort and honor you with good characters, devotion and success / Malcolm Christian." Gentle sunning to upper board edges, light wear to extremities, with subtle offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), shelfworn, with several tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases, and a few very faint splash marks; just Very Good.

"A U.S. Postal Service worker in Chicago narrates his Ohio childhood, his education at Storer College and Howard University, his diversified occupations in Massachusetts and New York State, his travels in the U.S., and his life in Chicago after 1927. The last quarter of the book is a collection called "Essays on Interracial Understanding," in which the author combines his thoughts, observations, and experiences relating to racial discrimination (BRIGNANON 71). Uncommon in commerce; not in Blockson. 84422. (Inventory #: 84422)