Gray cloth with dark blue titles on spine. Square and securely bound. Very light wear along with expected aging. Book is about near fine. Jacket has edge and corner wear but is stil attractive in Mylar. Earl Conrad was a white civil rights activist who wrote, at one time, for the Chicago Defender, an influential African-American newspaper. This novel represents itself, at times, as a social document but is mainly fiction, tracing the sordid life of an African-American woman from youth on a southern plantation to adulthood in Harlem. Quite controversial when published. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages