first edition
1957 · Glencoe, IL
by Frazier, E. Franklin
Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1957. First Printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First US edition of this controversial landmark study on the African-American middle class by the first Black president of the American Sociological Association — an especially nice copy. This US edition issued with both green and blue dust jackets, no priority established. First published in France (1957). 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original orange cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. In original unclipped ($4.00) green typographic jacket. Tan endpapers. Machine deckle fore-edge. 264 pages. Ownership notation of J.W. Fredericks to front fly leaf. Jacket with a bit of edgewear, rubbing to joints, faint toning. Book with touch of bumping to corners, very slight spine lean, faint sunning to board edges.
(Inventory #: 53595)