NY, Grove, (1965). A review copy of this autobiographical novel by the noted African-American poet/playwright, who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka. Jones was closely associated with the Beat movement and has written insightfully on jazz; he was also one of the first, and most important, black authors to gain prominence in the 1960s in the wake of the civil rights movement, and he became one of the principal exponents of a newly emerging Black consciousness and literary ethos. Cloth mottled; near fine in a fine dust jacket. [#023877] SOLD