IN THE MECCA
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Hardcover. An early printing. Inscribed by Gwendolyn Brooks to Diana L. Accurso, a librarian at Auburn University, on the half-title, with Accurso's printed name on the front flyleaf and her bookplate on the front pastedown. The first half of this major collection consists of a long narrative poem about people in the Mecca, a vast, fortresslike apartment building erected on the South Side of Chicago in 1891, which had long since deteriorated into a place of serious neglect and poverty. The second half of the book contains individual poems, among which the most noteworthy are “Boy Breaking Glass” and “Malcolm X”. Small octavo. Original red cloth binding, with black-stamped titling. Faint offsetting to the front flyleaf. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some very light edgewear; otherwise very good. Very good / Very good. Item #80941
Price: $350.00