A Different Drummer
- Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962. Very Good/Very Good -. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in price-clipped dust jacket by Al Nagy; [12],223pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including small loss at bottom corner of front panel, shallow dampstaining along top margin of rear panel, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else a Very Good copy in Good to Very Good jacket.
The author's first book, a novel of the Great Migration begun while a student at Harvard. A Different Drummer describes the mass exodus of the Black population from a small town in the deep South as seen through the eyes of different white townspeople. Kelley himself was a Black native New Yorker, though his author bio on the rear panel quotes him: "A Negro knows the South by osmosis. Every Negro seems to have a grandparent or other relative who packed up and followed Hope northward.
The author's first book, a novel of the Great Migration begun while a student at Harvard. A Different Drummer describes the mass exodus of the Black population from a small town in the deep South as seen through the eyes of different white townspeople. Kelley himself was a Black native New Yorker, though his author bio on the rear panel quotes him: "A Negro knows the South by osmosis. Every Negro seems to have a grandparent or other relative who packed up and followed Hope northward.