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Man Walking on Eggshells

Simmons, Herbert A.

£13.50

Hardcover

Publisher’s yellow cloth boards with brown lettering and detail to spine. A little foxing to edges of text block. Otherwise a clean and bright copy. About fine. In near fine paper dust jacket with some sticker damage to corner of front panel. *** Second and final novel by this obscure American writer. A great jazz novel about a Black community in St.Louis, which starts with the death of Florence Mills in November 1927: ‘And the blues descended like a dull slate sky wrapping around a mountaintop.’

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Book Details

AuthorSimmons, Herbert A.
PublisherThe Jazz Book Club/ Methuen & Co Ltd.
Publisher Year1964
Book ConditionNear Fine
Jacket ConditionNear Fine
Binding TypeHardcover
LanguageEnglish