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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1949. First British edition. First British edition. 262 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with black spine lettering. Very Good with "Ex Libris" stamp to front board, in an About Very Good dust jacket with a sunned price sticker to the foot, chipped at extremities, slightly soiled and stained. The African American author's debut novel, written when he was only 21about his military experiences in Berlin. He would leave the US for France where he became part of the Black expatriate community in France with other writers like Richard Wright, Chester Himes, and James Baldwin.

NY: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Debut novel by the expatriate American journalist and writer, written at the age of twenty while Smith was serving as an Army typist in occupied Berlin. The plot centers on the romance between a Black American solider and a white German woman, and explores the paradox that a member of the segregated Army might finally be accepted as an equal in a country responsible for the most heinous racial genocide of the century. A significant social protest novel, and arguably the first to examine the racism then rampant in the American Army. First edition. Octavo (5.5 x 8.25 in.); 262pp.; gray cloth boards; dark red spine lettering; in dust jacket. Near fine, with light shelfwear at spine ends and tips, mild toning to textblock. Unclipped ("$2.75") jacket in good only condition, with one larger chip affecting top of front panel and spine (where only the "Sm" of Smith's name remains), and numerous small, shallow chips and… Read More