Three Important Books from the 1970s Addressing Issues of Race in America

To include:

Angela Y. Davis. IF THEY COME IN THE MORNING: VOICES OF RESISTANCE. New York: The Third Press/Joseph Okpaku, 1971. Stated first printing. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards, stamped in orange and white, in dust jacket. 8vo; vi, 281, [1]pp. (Boards with light wear to lower board and minor rubbing to spine ends; a few stains at top edge; endpapers with old bookstore sticker and small area of paper residue from the jacket on rear paste-down; pages with toning; clipped jacket with toning, light scuffing, edge wear, and small loss to back cover; a very good plus copy in an about very good jacket.)

June Jordan. THINGS THAT I DO IN THE DARK. New York: Random House, 1977. Stated first edition. Collection of poems. Hardcover. Black cloth-backed over light grey paper-covered boards, in dust jacket. 8vo; xvii, [1], [1]-203, [3]pp. (Boards with some toning and wear at extremities, and a minor mark on the rear cover; toning and offsetting on endpapers; pages extremely clean; unclipped jacket with light scuffing and edge wear, with some additional wear to interior. A very good plus copy in a very good jacket.)

George Cain. BLUESCHILD BABY. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. Stated second printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth-covered boards blind-stamped on the cover and stamped in silver on the spine; in dust jacket. 8vo; [vi], 201, [1]pp. (Minor wear to boards; interior with area of erased pencil writing on ffep and a small spot on one page, otherwise extremely clean; clipped jacket with light scuffing, creasing, and edge wear, and a small loss at top edge.)

8 1/4 x 5 5/8 in.; 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.; 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.

From a Private North Carolina Collection