If He Hollers Let Him Go.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1945.
Price: $550.00
About the item
First Edition of the author's first book. [6], [1]-249 pp. 8vo. Black cloth boards with yellow lettering on spine; near fine in repaired unclipped dust jacket with loss at spine, rubbed on lower front cover with some small tears along upper and lower edges, bumped upper corner and light soiling; overall a very good copy.
Item #333561
Himes' first novel, a sexually-charged exploration of the alienated consciousness of an African-American worker in an armaments plant in Los Angeles during World War Two, it earned him critical praise, favorable comparison to the works of Richard Wright, and significant analysis in Franz Fanon's seminal study of racism, Black Skin, White Masks (Peau noire, masques blancs, 1952).
