A Swarthy Boy 1963 Edgar Mittelholzer autobiography of British Guiana novelist ~ Guyana

$125.00

Title: A Swarthy Boy

Author: Edgar Mittelholzer

Description: First Edition. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Interior is unmarked, pages clean and crisp. Nine photographs on plates, including frontispiece. Dust jacket price clipped; rubbed along spine edge of rear panel; in an archival mylar sleeve. 157 pages.

The autobiography of the Guyanese novelist Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965), considered to be the first professional novelist to come out of the English-speaking Caribbean.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Publisher: Putnam
Place: London
Year: 1963

Keywords: autobiography, biography, novelist, British Guiana, Guyana,

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