The Sixties Catalogue

3 J u l y 2 0 2 0 First Edition Of Manchild In The Promised Land 1. BROWN, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land . New York, 1965. Octavo, original red cloth, dust jacket. $800. Click for more info First edition of this moving autobiography chronicling one man’s journey out of poverty and crime in Harlem. “Claude Brown makes James Baldwin and all that old Rock of Ages rhetoric sound like some kind of Moral Rearmament tourist from Toronto come to visit the poor” (Tom Wolfe). Dust jacket with only most minor wear to extremities. An exceptional, very nearly fine copy. “Everybody was really digging themselves and thinking and saying in their behavior, in every action, ‘Wow! Man, it’s a beautiful thing to be colored.’”