The Free-Lance PallBearers.
First edition of The Free-Lance PallBearers; inscribed by Ishmael Reed
The Free-Lance PallBearers.
REED, Ishmael.
Item Number: 133412
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967.
First edition of the author’s first novel. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Richard, many good wishes Ishmael Reed.” Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Sullivan.
"Ishmael Reed's electrifying first novel zooms readers off to the crazy, ominous kingdom of HARRY SAM a miserable and dangerous place ruled for thirty years by Harry Sam, a former used car salesman who wields his power from his bathroom throne. In a land of a thousand contradictions peopled by cops and beatniks, black nationalists and white liberals, the crusading Bukka Doopeyduk leads a rebellion against the corrupt Sam in a wildly uproarious and scathing satire, earning the author the right to be dubbed the brightest contributor to American satire since Mark Twain" (The Nation).
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