The Learning Tree, First Edition. This item is unavailable.The Learning Tree, First Edition

[African American] [Literature] PARKS, Gordon. The Learning Tree. New York: Harper and Row, 1963. First Edition. 303 pages. 8vo. Black board with gold foil tree, pictorial dust jacket with author's portrait en verso, mylar wrapper. Parks wrote this novel based on his experience as a black man growing up in 20th century United States. The Learning Tree tells the extraordinary journey of a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leave their mark a world that is better for their having been in it. The protaganist,14-year-old Newt Winger, was born into a poor Black family in Kansas and the story portrays a year in his life as he learns about love, fear, racial injustice, and immorality. This novel was later adapted into a successful film. Minor tear to bottom front dust jacket, some chipping to spine, protected by mylar wrapper. Not price clipped. Text and pages are clean and crisp. Overall very good condition.