The Black Book by Middleton Harris (1974) first edition book

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Middleton Harris (in collaboration with Morris Levitt, Roger Furman, & Ernest Smith) - The Black Book

New York: Random House, 1974. First edition, first printing. 4to. Softcover (The Black Book was simultaneously issued in hardbound and paperbound editions). 200 pp. Introduction by Bill Cosby. Illustrated profusely in black-and-white with sixteen pages of color plates. Very good condition. Minor wear to textblock forecorners, outer periphery of covers. No markings to pages. Scarce.

Note: many copies of the reprinted edition of this work (with a foreword by Toni Morrison) are being disingenuously advertised as first edition copies; they are not.



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