Cotton Comes to Harlem
by Chester Himes
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good book, front free end paper owner inscription; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped with close tears, 3" cover tea
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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Synopsis
Cotton Comes to Harlem is the sixth and best known of Chester Himes’ Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson Mysteries. It was later adapted into a film starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx, that touted Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed as “Two Detectives Only a Mother Could Love.” When a con-man rigs the collection of a Back-To-Africa rally, money is hi-jacked by white gunman and hidden in a cotton bale. That bale becomes the center of the investigation, set against the backdrop of 1960s Harlem. Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are Blind Man with a Pistol , Cotton Comes to Harlem , The Crazy Kill , A Rage in Harlem , The Real Cool Killers , and The Heat's On . - -
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1768
- Title
- Cotton Comes to Harlem
- Author
- Chester Himes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound black cloth and red boards, white spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 223 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book, front free end paper owner inscription; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped with close tears, 3" cover tea
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Coffin Ed Johnson, Gravedigger Jones
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