CORREGIDORA.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's powerful first book, the story of a blues singer trying to come to terms with her womanhood, her family's past and the legacy of slavery. James Baldwin called it "the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred and is occurring in the souls of Black men and women ... it dares to confront the absolute terror which lives at the heart of love." Toni Morrison was Jones's editor on these early books. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-394-493230.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket - a former library copy, but the endpapers have been professionally replaced and the only marking is an inconspicuous embossed seal on the title page. Dust jacket is price-clipped, with a very short closed tear to bottom edge of rear cover. Overall an attractive copy of a scarce and important first edition at a reasonable price.