AMONG THE DANGS: TEN SHORT STORIES ...
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1961]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The author's first story collection. In addition to the fine title story, this collection of short fiction includes "The NRACP," which depicts a racist, authoritarian dystopia set in a near future America. The National Relocation Authority: Colored Persons (NRACP) brings Black Americans bit by bit into a huge Colored Persons Reserve in Nevada where they are slaughtered for their meat. A "grisly modern enactment of Swift's 'Modest Proposal' ..." - Amis, New Maps of Hell, p. 154. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 274. Reginald 04796. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with two light blue horizontal lines on the verso of the jacket (offset from a previous jacket protector) with slight bleed through to white background areas of jacket and a few small soil marks. (16592). Item #16592
Price: $125.00