Good in a near fine dust jacket. (a tight straight copy, but with staining to outside of textblock - a mishap with coffee?.) SIGNED hardcover first edition - New Holt, Rinehart and Winston,, (1975.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Good in a near fine dust jacket. (a tight straight copy, but with staining to outside of textblock - a mishap with coffee?.). First printing. Second novel by this important African American writer and poet - not just for his own works, but also as an editor, as one of the founders of the literary magazine "Yardbird" and as a teacher. Poet laureate of California. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp.