Poor, Black and in Real Trouble: A Novel [Inscribed and Signed]
- SIGNED
- Baltimore, MD: Community Residence Center, 1976
Baltimore, MD: Community Residence Center, 1976. Very Good +/Very Good. Baltimore, MD: Community Residence Center, 1976. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95); [10],308pp. Light toning and a few chips and closed tears to dust jacket margins, corners nudged, else a Very Good and sound copy overall. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on title page.
First novel by the African-American educator who "completed school, attended college, and became a teacher--all while serving a thirty-year sentence in the Maryland penitentiary" (from the author bio on rear jacket panel). Dyson Wright was released after serving nine years of his sentence and attended Morgan State College where he studied under the esteemed literary historian of the Harlem Renaissance Waters Turpin, whom Dyson Wright credits on the title page of this work as his educator.
First novel by the African-American educator who "completed school, attended college, and became a teacher--all while serving a thirty-year sentence in the Maryland penitentiary" (from the author bio on rear jacket panel). Dyson Wright was released after serving nine years of his sentence and attended Morgan State College where he studied under the esteemed literary historian of the Harlem Renaissance Waters Turpin, whom Dyson Wright credits on the title page of this work as his educator.