Kelley, William Melvin

A DIFFERENT DRUMMER [Signed]

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, 223 pages. Very Good, in a Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket spine black and gold with black and beige titling, dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Some rubbing and shelfwear, including tears to extremities, primarily the top and bottom edge of the front cover of dust jacket, small chip on tail of dust jacket spine, light foxing to interior of dust jacket. Light foxing to edges of text block and edges of boards, former owner's name on the front free end paper. Price uncut “$3.95”. Signed by Kelley on the half-title page. First Edition, Second Printing, with no edition statement on the copyright page and gutter code 'D38'. Scarce in any format, especially scarce signed. Shelved in Case 2.

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Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $3,000

NOTES

William Melvin Kelley's debut novel won the John Hay Whitney Foundation Award and Rosenthal Foundation Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Kelley is credited with being the first to commit the term "woke" to print. [wikipedia]