The Dark Stain

  • Hardcover
  • New York: The Dial Press, 1943
By Appel, Benjamin
New York: The Dial Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, very slight bumping to a couple of corners, a touch of foxing to fore-edge; jacket shows wear at spine ends, creasing/wrinkling along top of front panel, ditto (but much less) at bottom of front pane]. Novel set partially in Harlem, about how a home-grown American Fascist group tries to exploit racial tensions resulting from an incident in which a New York policeman was "unwillingly forced to kill a crazed negro." Quite scarce. .

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