Thursdays and Every Other Sunday Off: A Domestic Rap
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. Cloth. The 1972 stated 1st edition of this uncommon "domestic rap" on the role of "black people"- housekeeping though the years. Solid and VG+ (very light staining along the bottom-edges) in a bright, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the spine ends and the tips, and very mild soiling and creasing to the panel edges. Octavo, 156 pgs. Written through the lens of an empowered, Sixties sensibility, includes chapter headings such as "Freedom is better than slavery and i know cause i done seed both sides", "Massas and lawn Moors", "Nobody knows the master better than the servant", "House niggers ain't shit", "The Servants Done Riz!", "Mammy, Aunt Jemima & Uncle Ben, the Gold Dust twins and the rest of the family", etc. Very Good + / Very Good. Item #19614
Price: $250.00