HIMES, Chester Pinktoes. Paris: The Olympia Press.1961.
Small format 8vo., original green card covers, ruled and lettered in black and white; pp. [xxii], 23-207, [v]; title page with border in green; a very good copy, covers evenly sunned, rubbed and creased along the backstrip with some pushing and peeling to head of spine; rubber repricing stamp ‘NF18’ to the lower cover; some dark markings to the outer edges of the text block; text favouring upper margin, printed thus.
First edition, No. 87 in the Traveller’s Companion Series. Printed in July 1961 by Impr. S.I.P., Montreuil. p. 30 and 31 are transposed, as noted in Kearney, with the page numbers here underlined twice in red pen.
A remarkably sensitive and candid work, featuring themes of race, homosexuality and the American prison system, from the author of the popular Harlem Detective novels. This book follows the matronly Mamie Mason, who hosts a series of mixed-race orgies in New York’s Harlem. The title of the work is described by the author as being “a term of indulgent affection applied to white women by Negro men, and sometimes conversely by Negro women to white men, but never adversely by either."
A humorous sexual satire.
Kearney (p. 93)
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