Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine
New York: G.P. Putman’s Sons, 1992. 23.5x16cm: 332p. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED by author on the half title page. Publisher’s press release for book laid-in. Light blue paper-covered boards quarter-bound in dark blue paper, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Illustrated dustjacket. Top corners of boards gently bumped. Faint toning and scattered foxing to text block edges.. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket.
Campbell (1950-2006) was a New York Times best-selling author, journalist, teacher, and lifelong advocate of mental health, who won the NAACP Image Award for Literature, for this debut novel. Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine draws “on the real 1955 murder of Emmett Till in rural Mississippi and the ensuing riots,” in which Campbell, “humanizes history in her wise, sensitive exploration of racist hatred, married love, disappointment, and satisfaction over a period of thirty years.” An important and timely read.
Price: $60.00
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