Garden City: Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Presentation copy inscribed by Morris to his brother-in-law on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly rubbed at the surface and edges. Quarter black buckram with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Morris's account of a black high school football player in a small town in Mississippi that is "a living emblem of that baroque strain in the American character called 'Southern.'

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Bookseller: Carpetbagger Books, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5701
Title: The Courting of Marcus Dupree
Author: Morris, Willie
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0385180098
ISBN 13: 9780385180092
Publisher: Doubleday and Company, Inc
Place of Publication: Garden City
Date Published: 1983
Keywords: Biography, American South, Mississippi, Racism, Race, Black Biography

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