Cotton Comes to Harlem -- Movie Pressbook
by HIMES, Chester
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+/No Jacket
- Seller
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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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- Bookseller
- abookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011479
- Title
- Cotton Comes to Harlem -- Movie Pressbook
- Author
- HIMES, Chester
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- United Artists
- Place of Publication
- CA
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Film Pressbook; Mystery; Harlem
- Bookseller catalogs
- Movie Pressbook;
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
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