Manchild in the Promised Land

London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1966. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); dark brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-415,[1]pp. A few tiny indentations to lower board edges, faint foxing to upper and right edge of textblock, with a few faint spots to endpapers; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, showing modest shelfwear, dust-soil, scattered foxing, a few tears (one of them tape-mended), and a faint damp mark to rear flap fold; Very Good. Brown's first book, an autobiography of the Harlem streets and its many pitfalls. "For a short period of his life, Brown was a member of two notorious gangs, the Buccaneers and The Forty Thieves. After serving time in a reform school, he eventually enrolled in Howard University, Washington, D.C. where he earned his degree. The book is used as a standard text for the study of black life within America's greatest city" (Blockson 94, One Hundred and One Influential Books). BRIGNANO 43; BLOCKSON 3327. 81452.