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In the Shadow of the Peacock. Signed copy.
by EDWARDS-YEARWOOD, Grace
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1988). First edition, this copy boldly signed in ink on the title page by Edwards-Yearwood. Octavo (9.25 x 6.25"), 279 pages. Publisher's gray paper over boards backed in light green cloth lettered in black on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Top edge of the text block a bit foxed, internal toning, otherwise very good or better in fine dust jacket.
Grace Edwards-Yearwood, 1933 - 2020, (nee Grace Frederica Smith) was director of the Harlem Writers Guild from 2007 to 2016. In the Shadow of the Peacock is her first book followed by six detective novels all set in Harlem.
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1881
- Title
- In the Shadow of the Peacock. Signed copy.
- Author
- EDWARDS-YEARWOOD, Grace
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- African American, Harlem, New York, Jazz, Fiction, Harlem Writers Guild, Signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American; Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Signed; New York;
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- Spine
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- Fine
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