beatrice garrett (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Exposition-Phoenix Press, Incorporated January 1974 Binding: Hardcover includes dj, small stain to back of dj, in protective mylar wraps.

First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; 175pp. Jacket a touch cockled, else Fine. The author's first book, a self-published novel about "The Derelicts, the Misfits, the Outcasts and Cheaters, and a Big-Time Swindle in the Dark Alleys of Los Angeles" (upper jacket panel). The author, galvanized by the Watts race riots in LA during which 34 people were killed, became involved in the Community Action Programs and served as Director of Voter Education and Registration for the NAACP. In 1968 she opened Soul Food Cafe in the southeast area of Los Angeles, on what is called "Skid Row," and this novel, narrated in the popular "street talk" of the neighborhood, is based on the locals who frequented her restaurant.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, still easily fine dust jacket. Nicely Inscribed by the author. A novel by a Freeport, Long Island-born African-American woman who moved to Philadelphia, graduated from Germantown High School, joined the Army, and opened a soul food restaurant in Los Angeles' Skid Row, where the novel is set.