One Of The Most Realistic Portrayals of Addiction

BLUESCHILD BABY

By George Cain

(1970)

First edition of the acclaimed novel about a Black man just released from prison, "the bright boy of infinite promise [...] and the very old parolee of twenty-two, who sees little difference between the prison world and the world outside."

Fine in a near fine jacket.

Price: $500.00

BLUESCHILD BABY

"I'm still alive and that is more important than any success"

Addison Gayle Jr. of THE NEW YORK TIMES praised BLUESCHILD BABY as "the most important work of fiction by an Afro-American since NATIVE SON." The title has enjoyed enduring popularity, and was recently reprinted in a new edition with a preface by Leslie Jamison, who called it a "powerful literary account of addiction."

Read more: William Grimes, "George Cain, Writer of 'Blueschild Baby,' Dies at 66," New York Times 29 October 2010; Leslie Jamison, "Why George Cain's 'Blueschild Baby' Should Be in the Addiction Canon," The New Yorker.

The Object

First printing. New York, St. Louis, San Francisco: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1970). 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth binding with silver spine lettering. Original unclipped ($6.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. Red topstain. 202 pages. Touches of rubbing and toning to jacket. Single tiny neat tape repair to verso of jacket. Else clean, sharp, and sound.

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