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Man Walking on Eggshells
Man Walking on Eggshells

Man Walking on Eggshells

by SIMMONS, Herbert
£30.00 - £30.00
£30.00
£30.00 - £30.00
£30.00

London: Methuen & Co Ltd.. 1962.


First UK edition, published the same year as the first printing in America. 200x130mm. pp. [6], 250. Blue cloth, illustrated and lettered on spine. Original illustrated dustjacket. Slight creasing to edges of jacket and light soiling to lower cover but overall very good and internally fine.
Set in the world of the St Louis jazz scene, Man Walking on Eggshells is a clever melding of words and music adopting the speech of Simmons's own African American community and the rhythms and improvisations of jazz.


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