LONELY CRUSADE

by Chester Himes

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Octavo, pp. 1-2: blank 3-8 1-2 3-398 399: blank 400: a note on the type ... 401-404: blank , original brown cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First edition. The author's second book and second novel. In the 1940s Himes spent time in Los Angeles, working as a screenwriter but also producing two novels, IF HE

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