Murray Albert 1916 2013 (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st ed. frontis, photos, index, 399p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 23 cm. Few tiny spots on covers. Jacket slightly chipped along edges.

Condition: FINE. First printing. The rather uncommon first book of poetry by this Black author whom The New Yorker described as "possessed of the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, and the gospel singer's depth of feeling." A small slim volume. 73 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.).…

Condition: FINE. First thus. African American writer's second book, originally published in 1971 - a combination of memoir and literary criticism - in part, a book about one black intellectual's perspectives on a number of white Southern writers (Robert Penn Warren and Walker Percy among others) and in part recollections of Murray's boyhood and youth. SIGNED on the title page. ML binding style 17 with Modern Llibrary running torchbearer end papers and a photographic dust jacket. 266 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.…