Description

Édition originale - mention "First printing, 1966" à la page de copyright.

"Charles Wright's second novel, a comédie noire, is a kind of Candide in Harlem. It is the story of Lester Jefferson, a young man of great good will, whose repeated attempts to become a part of The Great Society are doomed in advance. Lester only wants what most people want, a little love and a little recognition, and he works with a will to get them. But an accident of pigmentation has forced him into unorthodox ways, desperate and often hilarious gestures, and some very curious companions."

First printing.

Pictorial dustjacket designed by Milton Glaser, price unclipped (slightly darkened, spine slightly creased on top).
Publisher's boards, green cloth spine lettered in white, illustration in blind on the boards, purple topstain (slightly sunned on top).