Bantam, New York, 1968, 10th pr.  Q3576.  MMPB, 933 pages.  Wraps show some edge and cover wear, tight binding with light reading creases on spine.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages; age spotting on first and last pages and verso of wraps.  ‘… the story of one man’s search for dignity and love.  It moves swiftly from a New Orleans ghetto, where a black child reaches out for a better life, to the scenes of intense beauty and bitterness that mark his journey to manhood…’ (from inside wrap)