The Rise and Fall of a Proper Negro: An Autobiography by Lacy, Leslie Alexander - 1970

Pocket Book, 1971. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Mass-market paperback, glossy wrappers with close-up photo of an African American man on front, praise at bottom front left from Life magazine, black spine and back wrapper, praise from New York Times, Hartford Times, Le Roi Jones in Black World, 224 slightly browned but supple pages. Light wear to front and back wrapper's edges and spine corners. Near Very Good.

Macmillan, 1970. VG / VG -. Hardcover in shelfworn dust jacket

H. Good.

NY: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops soiled.. 1970. Hardcover. The author was "brought up in the rareified atmosphere of Negro society, private schools, and a studied imitation of the white world", but then became an activist who left the US for Nkrumah's Ghana and later returned to America. Black cloth sewn binding. ; Book Club Edition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages .

New York: MacMillan. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. Ex-Library; 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 ; viii, 244 pages; Hard cover is black with faded silver lettering on spine. Former library book with typical markings. Pages are mostly clean and tight. Boards have rubbing, scuffing, bumping, fraying, sunning, shelf wear. No DJ. 'The odyssey of Leslie Alexander Lacy [1936-2017], product of a ""respectable"" Louisiana childhood, whose gradual involvement in West Coast militant movements and travel to Africa brings him to some sweetly reasonable and sourly realistic conclusions regarding black revolution.' .

New York: Pocket Books, 1971. The book has the previous owner's name in pen on the front inside cover. The cover has some creases along the spine. . Pocket Book Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Macmillan Publishing -, 1970. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Macmillan, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 244pp. Splash mark at the topedge else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with touch of toning at the edges, light wear and splash mark at one corner. The story of a Black man raised in the upper middle class, who repudiates his upbringing, becomes a militant nationalist in Ghana, meets with DuBois and Malcolm X and returns to the U.S.

Macmillan, 1970. 1st. Hardcover. A FINE tight copy in a Near FINE+ bright dj. Inscribed and signed by Lacy!.

Pocket Books, January 1971. Mass Market Paperback Mass Market Paperback. Used - Acceptable. Reading creases to cover. Domestic orders shipped with USPS tracking numbers.