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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.
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Last of the Conquerors
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LAST OF THE CONQUERORS [SIGNED]
by Smith, William Gardner
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1948. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 262 pages; G-/G-; spine pink faded to white and grey with white titling; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$2.75', fading to spine, chipping to all extremities, including head and tail of spine, front hinge; water-staining to fore and lower edges of boards; Signed flat by Smith in blue ink on the ffep, small bleed onto front flap; First Edition, Second Printing, before publication; extremely scarce signed; shelved case 6. William Gardner Smith's debut novel, it reflects his own experience as an African-American GI serving in the racially segregated United States Army in US-occupied Germany after World War II. It revolves around the protagonist, Hayes Dawkins, having an affair with Ilse, a white German woman. Smith's third book, South Street (1954), is considered to be one of the first black militant protest novels. 1352318. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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