Alston Anderson - Lover Man

London, Cassell, 1959 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely copy of the first edition of Alston Anderson's collection of short stories about race and life in Jim Crow era North Carolina. The first edition, first impression of this collection of short stories set in the Jim Crow South. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.With a small number of vignette illustrations by Denys and Judith Valentine.Alston Anderson was born in Panama to Jamaican parents who brought him to North Carolina as a child.In this collection, he examines the North Carolina of his childhood, in a series of 'stories of loners, outsiders, tricksters, addicts, jazzmen, and drifters', according to a later publisher.With an introduction from Anderson's friend, Robert Graves.Bookseller's label to head of front pastedown, and inscription to half title. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, but with light cockling to board heads. Bookseller's label to head of front pastedown. Inscription to half title. Dust wrapper sunned to back strip, with closed tear to head of front wrap by fold over front joint. Light spotting to rear wrap, with minor colour pencil marks to reverse of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Denys and Judith Valentine. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.

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