Ark of Bones and Other Stories
by Dumas, Henry
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Kennesaw, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition in wraps. VG+ (soiling and light wear each with a touch of rubbing.). A posthumously-published book of nine short stories (including A Harlem Game, Double Nigger, and The Crossing) edited by Eugene B. Redmond, Dumass colleague at Southern Illinois University. Dumas identified with the black power movement during his lifetime [and] was also active in the civil rights movement. At the age of 33, Dumas was shot and killed by a New York City Transit policeman in a case of mistaken identity (www.poetryfoundation.org). Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye and an editor at Random House at the time of Dumass death, championed Dumass work, even organizing a book release event with a glamorous guest list comprising the most renowned black writers of the time, commenting in an announcement for the book launch party, in those thirty-three years he had completed work the quality and quantity of which are almost never achieved in several lifetimes" (see the story on Dumas at www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch). Whether he is discussing the stillness of Arkansas or the static of Harlem, Dumas is clearly among the aristocrats of storytellers. Black life has never had a more powerful voice.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crow Hop Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1054
- Title
- Ark of Bones and Other Stories
- Author
- Dumas, Henry
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
Terms of Sale
Crow Hop Rare Books
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About the Seller
Crow Hop Rare Books
Biblio member since 2019
Kennesaw, Georgia
About Crow Hop Rare Books
Established in 2018, Crow Hop Rare Books sells a variety of unusual and hard to find material, including photo albums, vernacular material, signed/inscribed first editions, African Americana, ephemera, and midcentury Americana.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...