


Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
In the hardboiled tradition of Chester Himes and Walter Mosely, Robert Deane Pharr's novel tells the tale of two black men, Dave and Blueboy, traveling waiters who establish themselves as numbers runners in a fictionalized Richmond of the 1930s. Published to great acclaim in 1969, The Book of Numbers...