Brothers & Keepers [Review Copy]

London: Allison & Busby, 1985. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, cloth issue, a review copy, with the publisher's slip and 2pp press release laid in. Octavo (22cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-243,[3]pp. Pictorial bookplate to front endpaper, crown gently bumped and sunned, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £9.95 net), with some mild wrinkling at crown, and a hint of sunning to spine; Near Fine. Wideman's moving memoir of he and his brother Robert's upbringing in the poor Black neighborhood of Homewood in Pittsburgh, PA, and the divergent paths they took. John Edgar went to university, became and Ivy League basketball player, and was one of the first Black Rhodes scholars at Oxford; his brother Robert is serving a life sentence in prison, accused of a 1975 murder. "...a head-on confrontation with the dark side of the American dream – with racial prejudice and the problems created by a society that has nothing to offer disaffected young blacks like Robert Wideman" (from the press release). BLOCKSON 10313 (for the US edition). 81644.