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Black Lizard Books, 1989. This is the first printing under this title, originally published by Beacon books in 1958 as 'Honey Gal.'. First Thus. Paperback. Nr Fine.

Black Lizard Books, 1989. This is the first printing under this title, originally published by Beacon books in 1958 as 'Honey Gal.'. First Thus. Paperback. Nr Fine.

NY: Beacon Books. NF. 1958. 1st Edition. Paperback. Beacon Books #B160,1958. A paperback original. Near Fine condition. Bo ok has a penciled #403 on the front cover that has been erased leaving a light erasure mark. The number is embedded in the cover and althoug h erased can still be faintly seen. Slight spine lean. Rubs and a tiny tear to the lower spine tips. Faint diagonal crease at the front cove r's upper edge. The book is otherwise FINE with bright, clean covers a nd unmarked contents. .

New York: Beacon, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. 188, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's original wraps. Near Fine with light wear to wraps, narrow dried drip of excess binder's glue to spine. Pages toned. An excellent novel set in the South at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. The publisher rejected its original title, The Black Mass of Brother Springer, and gave it a "sexy" cover and blurbs like "He was white. She was beautiful -- and bad" that are completely at-odds with the book's pitchblack-humored, amoral style.

New York: Beacon, 1958. First Edition. First edition. 188, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's original wraps. Near Fine with slight lean and concavity to spine, pages toned with age, as is typical.An excellent novel set in the South at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement with a moral ambiguity that is no less unsettling now than when it was published. The publisher rejected its original title, The Black Mass of Brother Springer, and gave it a "sexy" cover and blurbs like "He was white. She was beautiful -- and bad" that are completely at-odds with the book's pitchblack-humored style.

Beacon Book (Universal Publishing and Distribution Corp.), 1958. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. A crisp, tight copy of the 1958 1st edition of this "starkly naked novel of sin and segregation". Clean and Near Fine, with one thin crease at the front panel's top-edge. Beacon pocketbook B 160. "He was white. She was beautiful --and bad"

New York: Beacon, 1958. NF/(none). First edition. Wraps. Unread, beautiful copy. .