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Daddy was a number runner / Louise Meriwether.

Van Pelt Library PS3563.E738 D3
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LIBRA - Rare PS3563.E738 D3 1970 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Meriwether, Louise, author.
Contributor:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, writer of foreword.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African American teenage girls--Fiction.
African American teenage girls.
African American families--Fiction.
African American families.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.).
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Teenage girls.
Genre:
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
208 pages ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1970].
Contents:
Part I. Daddy was a number runner
Part II. Yoruba's children.
Notes:
First novel to come out of the Los Angeles' Watts Writers' Workshop.
Foreword (pages 5-7) by James Baldwin.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
ISBN:
0131971034 :
OCLC:
69028

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