BLUESCHILD BABY
Association copy of this acclaimed novel, effusively presented to fellow writer Quincey Troupe with one of the best writer-to-writer inscriptions we have ever encountered.
Very good plus in a very good jacket.
Price: $2,500.00
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." One of the most realistic portrayals of addiction oublished, BLUESCHILD BABY follows 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."
This copy warmly and extensively inscribed by Cain to poet Quincy Troupe, with a memorable ending: "He OK finally, rescues me from the sickness, remembers me from another time have forgotten many of the things I've been, but am recalling myself." A major association between these two important Black Arts writers, with an incredible and revealing inscription.
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
Second 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. Inscribed by Cain over the entirety of the front free endpaper to Quincey Troupe: "9/25 Nite time, after dinner, Have had a good day. Welfare sent the check paid my bills & broke again, but can start anew. Negro passed by, got high, shot some & coke, bought half pint o rum with Victor! Fucked up, sick. Make a call Columbia University, having a party come by. Free drinks, white women, food? Washed & dressed for the wars, has been so long since I ventured from my turf. Meet Quincy Troupe. Who he! nother n***** writer like me, she says! Ha, ha!, a sly laugh of sly n*****. He OK finally, rescues me from the sickness, remembers me from another time have forgotten many of the things I've been, but am recalling myself, Cain." Mild rubbing to jacket. Some chipping to spine tips with unobtrusive stain to spine bottom. Touches of shelfwear. Overall clean and sound.
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