8vo, quarter white cloth over black paper boards, silver and grey titles, red top stain, 217pp. First printing. Unclipped dust jacket (3.95) with light rippling, creasing to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper, tape residue impressions to board and endpaper edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The debut novel by the unsung Black American writer, a semi autobiographical bildungsroman of a young man transplanted from Missouri to New York City. Dust jacket blurb by James Baldwin. A very good copy in mylar.