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New York: Dell, 1966. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 6x4x0. First printing. Spine creased, edge wear. 1966 Mass Market Paperback. 223 pp. Flim-flam man Deke O’Hara is no sooner out of Atlanta’s state penitentiary than he’s back on the streets working a big scam. As sponsor of the Back-to-Africa movement, he’s counting on a big Harlem rally to produce a massive collection—for his own private charity. But the take is hijacked by white gunmen and hidden in a bale of cotton that suddenly everyone wants to get his hands on. As NYPD detectives “Coffin Ed” Johnson and “Grave Digger” Jones face the complexity of the scheme, we are treated to Himes’s brand of hard-boiled crime fiction at its very best.

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1988-11-28. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 7x5x0. First Vintage Paperback Edition with cover illustration by Terrance Cummings. Very faint wear to wrapper and scuffing to bottom edge.

NY: DELL PUB.. usual tanning to pages. . Good. PAPERBACK. 1ST. 1966.

Dell, 1966 Mystery First Paperback Edition. "Cover re-attached near spine edge with acid-free tape. 2.5"" crease at lower right front cover. Minor touches of edgewear. Light halo tanning of wraps. Previous owner's sticker on first page. Price sticker on rear cover." No. 1513. First printing. Basis of the movie of the same title.

Mass Market Paperback. Very good. Dell, #1513, 1966, 1st printing, 223 pages, mass market paperback, tight and square, no owner's mark, very light wear,

Dell Numbered Series. New York: Dell Publishing Company. , 1966 first edition . 1513 very good, spine crease Movie tie-in. paperback,

(Stockholm): AWE/Gebers, 1979. Softcover. Very Good. First Swedish edition. Octavo. 255pp. Perfectbound in illustrated wrappers. About very good with rubbing, moderate edgewear and address stamp on first page.

New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1966. 1st Edition Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 4.25" x 7" First paperback edition. Paperback. All edges teal. 223 pp. Spine tilted. Covers age toned, chip to spine foot. Interior age tanned.

Dell Numbered Series. New York: Dell Publishing Company. , 1970 first thus. 1513 near fine, unread Movie tie-in. paperback,

General Distribution@services, 1985-02-28. Paperback. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Very good. Little creased. First thus.

Jyväskylä [Finland]: K.J. Gumerus Osakeyhtio, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Finnish edition. Translated by Paavo Lehtonen. Text in Finnish. Endpapers and topedge slightly foxed, near fine in a lightly rubbed about very good dust jacket with light tanning to the rear panel, modest wear to the extremities and a few small nicks and short tears. First published in France in 1964, under the title *Retour en Afrique*.

CA: United Artists, 1970. Pressbook originally sent to movie theater owners to help them promote the release of the upcoming film. Light crease across middle. Six Pages accordian fold. (11" X 17") featuring articles, reviews, ads, and black & white reproductions of the selections of movie posters for the movie. Starred Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques and Redd Foxx. . First Edition. Soft Cover. VG+/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Pressbook.

G. P. Putnam's Sons. First Thus. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First U.S. edition. Heavy rubbing and some pushing to the corners of the coverboards. Very light spine lean. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and bright with no markings. No DJ.

This is the softcover stated New Dell First Edition from July 1970. Other than the slightest hint of a cover crease, both the cover and the book are in excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc.---and the pages and binding are tight.  **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe.Like New

PUTNAM Book. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN DUST JACKET..

NY: Putnam, 1965. Hardcover. First edition. Very good hardcover with similar dustwrapper. First American edition. Former library book with the usual markings. Text clean. 223 pages. Dustwrapper flaps glued inside boards. Rubbing to dustwrapper. Small nicks to dustwrapper spine ends.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound black cloth and red boards, white spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 223 pp. Very good book, front free end paper owner inscription; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped with close tears, 3" cover tear, light edge and corner wear, back cover soiled. Originally published in France, 1964, as Retour en Afrique. The sixth in Himes' Harlem Detectives sequence. Featuring detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones.

[African-American Fiction], [Harlem] Himes, Chester. Cotton Comes To Harlem. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1966. First Dell printing. First paperback edition. 224 pages. Tan paperback illustrated wrappers with black and red lettering. Octavo. Cotton Comes To Harlem is the sixth and best-known novel in Chester Himes's Harlem Detective series. The book follows Black detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed as they search for $87,000 stolen from hardworking African-American families who dream of returning to Africa, escaping poverty in America. The novel's popularity led to other crime novels featuring African American cops and detectives, earning Himes a reputation as the "father of the black crime novel". The novel was adapted into a film in 1970 and a BBC 4 Radio play in 2012. Pages and covers clean and bright. In very good condition.

NY: Putnam's, 1965. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 223.Paper over boards with cloth spine. Edges little soiled, o/w a VG tight copy in scuffed and little chipped dj. This novel which was the basis of the movie starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques. First published in Paris.

Kobenhavn: Stig Vendelkaers Forlag, 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. First Danish edition. Octavo. 227pp. Perfectbound in printed near fine wrappers with very good pictorial dust jacket rubbed and with some edgewear.