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Author: Jones, LeRoi [Amiri Baraka]
Title: Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Place: New York
Publisher: William Morrow
Date: 1963
Item # : 168974
Sale Number   327
Lot Number   221
Sale Name    
The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature, plus Modern Literature
Sale Date   03/09/2006
Price realized   $ 184
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Description:
White cloth-backed black boards, front stamped in blue, spine lettered in black, pictorial jacket. First Edition, hardcover issue.
Signed by the author as Amiri Baraka on the title page. Scarce and important Jones title; first edition, preceding the British edition by two years.
Condition:
A few short tears and one tiny chip to jacket edges, minor nicks; slight wear to volume; marginal fading to endpapers; near fine or better in a very good or better jacket - clean and bright.
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