Sweet Man

New York: Viking Press, 1930. First edition. Credited by music historian Elijah Wald with having "the first printed description of a Mississippi juke joint" ("The Blue Blues," Oxford American, Issue 75, Winter 2011). INSCRIBED BY MILLEN on front endpaper, "Inscribed for/ my friend George Woodruff/ with sincere personal regards/ Gilmore Millen/ Los Angeles/ June 11, 1930." The story of… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Press, 1930. First edition. Credited by music historian Elijah Wald with having "the first printed description of a Mississippi juke joint" ("The Blue Blues," Oxford American, Issue 75, Winter 2011). The story of a "Negro vagabond," John Henry, teeming with "passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old Beale Street [and]… Read more about this item

African-American themed novel by this white author and southern newspaperman concerning John Henry. "the Negro vagabond, son of a mulatto and a white man.In him is the urge of the wanderer.new women loved and then forgotten. Only one woman is able to hold him for any length of time and after their marriage even she… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Pyramid Books, 1952. Book. Fair. Paper Back. G59. Fair vintage paperback, an amazing buy from a literature professor, some bumping, rubbing and tears to edges and corners of book. Books are stored and shipped in protective book bags to minimize handling wear. Good reading copy..

pyramid book, , (first PB 1952), . 59, , very good -fine, , reading crease, (INTERRACIAL NOVEL), , paperback,