[AFRICAN AMERICANA] HIMES, Chester (novel); WRIGHT, Richard (preface); MALARTIC, Yves (translation)Biblio.com
La Croisade De Lee Gordon Lonely Crusade
1952réf. 50571Paris: Corrêa 1952. First French Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; original printed wrappers; 78-3844pp. Light wear to extremities and base of spine with a tiny tear and attendant crease at right edge of front wrapper; page untrimmed; Near Fine lacking the scarce pictorial dustjacket. First French edition of Himes's second book issued the same year as his emigration from the U.S. to Paris. Originally published as Lonely Crusade by Knopf in 1947. A penetrating and subtle left-wing but intensely anti-Communist novel concerning race conflict at a California aircraft factory during World War II which managed to offend African-Americans whites and communists alike. The French edition notably includes a preface by Richard Wright which did not appear in the American edition. RIDEOUT p.299. HANNA 1729 for the American edition. Corrêa unknown
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