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[BLACK CRIME FICTION]. A pair of titles, including:
HIMES, Chester B. If He Hollers Let Him Go. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. 8vo. Original black cloth; original price-clipped dust jacket (spine gently sunned, light chipping at extreme ends). FIRST EDITION of the author’s scarce first novel that is compared to Wright’s Native Son for its bold depiction of “the shattering effects of racism”. -- MICHEAUX, Oscar. The Story of Dorothy Stanfield. New York: Book Supply Co., 1946. 8vo. Color printed frontispiece. Original gilt-lettered burgundy cloth; original dust jacket (some light edgewear). FIRST EDITION, authored by the most prominent African American director of the first half of the 20th century.
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