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Van Pelt Library PS3552.A45 J8
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LIBRA - Rare PS3552.A45 J8 1979 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African American men--Fiction.
African American men.
Homophobia.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Gospel musicians.
African American families--Fiction.
African American families.
Gay men--Fiction.
Gay men.
Brothers--Fiction.
Brothers.
Brothers--Death--Fiction.
Brothers--Death.
Gospel musicians--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
African Americans--Social conditions--Fiction.
African Americans.
Racism--Fiction.
Racism.
Homophobia--Fiction.
American fiction--20th century.
American fiction.
American fiction--African American authors.
Genre:
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
10 unnumbered pages, 597 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : The Dial Press, 1979.
Contents:
Book One. Have Mercy
Book Two. Twelve Gates to the City
Book Three. The Gospel Singer
Book Four. Stepchild
Book Five. The Gates of Hell.
Notes:
Design by Francesca Belanger.
Jacket design by Jack Ribik.
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.
Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks".
Banks Collection copy is "First printing".
ISBN:
0803747772 :
0803748671
OCLC:
5170168

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