Nigger in the Window

Garden City: Doubleday, 1978.

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Hardcover. First edition. Ex-church library copy, with stamp on half-title and pocket in rear, else very good in good dustwrapper with a shelf label on the spine and an internally repaired good dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To my beloved adversary and pretty good pastor with affection in the person of Rev. Fr. Norman St. John. Helen Jackson Lee. February 26, 1978." Subtitled on the jacket, "A black woman learns to cope with a white-collar world," an account by a Virginia born college-educated Black woman trying to get a secretarial job in New Jersey, the consistent rejections, her battle with tokenism, and her eventual success. Although well-represented in libraries, a surprisingly uncommon title in the trade, particularly from such a mainstream publisher.

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Item #458282 Nigger in the Window. Helen Jackson LEE.
Nigger in the Window