Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1958

8vo, pp. 317. Original green boards, lettered in silver to spine, cityscape device in black to front panel and spine. Leading edge uncut. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait (with Carl Sandburg) to rear panel. Small owner's label to title page, abrasion from label removal to front free endpaper, small area of dark offsetting to rear endpaper. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with just a little light edgewear.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 'To The Robbins', May luck stars guide you always Harry Golden Aug 21, 1958.' Len Robbins' family ownership label to title page.

Jewish-American Harry Golden [1902-1981] was a writer, publisher and fervent desegregationist (as well as the biographer of Carl Sandburg, who here supplies the introduction). This collection of essays and articles are mostly culled from The Carolina Israelite, Golden's own highly influential publication: at its height subscribers included William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Harry Truman, as well as scores of US Senators and Members of Congress.