Rape in Paradise

1966. Wright, Theon. Rape in Paradise. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1966. First edition. 316 pp., illustrations. Publisher's original quarter cloth to spine, with gilt stamped spine. Light wear to spine ends and edges. Map to endpapers. A good copy, in worn dust jacket. $15. * "A white woman claims she is raped by a gang of non-whites; white authorities attempt to push through a swift "justice". Ugly racial hatred bursts out into open violence. The community divides into two angry factions, prompting the federal government to consider sending in troops to maintain order. Alabama? Mississippi? No. Hawaii in the early 1930s!" [Publisher's description].