Blood in My Eye

George L. Jackson (1941 – 1971)

1972 First Edition (so stated). Random House, New York.
Octavo. Copper letters on black ¾ cloth and Chinese red boards with a blindstamped outline of Jackson. In FINE condition in a like Brodart protected dust jacket. Not price clipped. Binding is tight. Sharp tips. 197pp. “…these letters are the raw stuff, ragged and bleeding, or proudly refusing to bleed…(they) show us something of the process of becoming a man under such circumstances, and of becoming black.” Peter S. Prescott, Look Magazine. Blood in My Eyewas completed just days before he was murdered by San Quentin prison guards.