Hardcover. Condition: VG/Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Extremely Rare Signed 1st Edition. 226 pages. First edition, first printing. Minor foxing. This was Childress's first book after four Broadway plays. It's her fictionalized interview with Mildred Johnson, a domestic worker. Fine cond. except for rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine in a VG dust jacket with a tiny chip and an old cover stain. NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A beautiful copy! And you probably will never find another signed copy of this book, as Childress signed so few in her lifetime. Inscribed to author/professor Doris Abramson, a UMass and Columbia prof who wrote about black playwrights.
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gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book. The edges of the text block, or an inlay in the front cover of the boards, for example.