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Mama Black Widow
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Mama Black Widow

by Iceberg Slim

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Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co, 1969. First edition. First edition. 312, [8] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with single crease to spine,a few stains to edges, pages toned with age, nice shape overall.
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Mama Black Widow
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Mama Black Widow

by Iceberg Slim

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Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co, 1969. First Edition. First edition. 312, [8] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Good with corner creasing to front wrap and first few pages, wear to wraps, a few corner creased pages, pages toned with age.
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Homosexuality in the ghetto| Mama Black Widow by Iceberg Slim aka Robert Beck, First Edition, 1969
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Homosexuality in the ghetto"| Mama Black Widow by Iceberg Slim aka Robert Beck, First Edition, 1969

by Iceberg Slim, Robert Beck

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[African American] Beck, Robert (Aka Iceberg Slim) Mama Black Widow. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1969. First Edition Paperback, First Printing. 312 pages. Measures 4.25" x 7". Mama Black Widow tells the tragic story of Otis Tilson, a stunning black drag queen trapped in a cruel queer ghetto underworld. In hopes of escaping the racial bigotry and economic injustice of the South, Otis' family journeys north from their plantation to an urban promised land. Once in Chicago Otis and his brother and sisters become prisoners to a wasteland of violence, crime, prostitution and rape. This is the gut-wrenching tale of the destruction of a family and the truest portrayal of homosexuality in the ghetto ever told. Iceberg Slim was an American former pimp who later became a writer. In 1961, after serving 10 months of solitary confinement in a Cook County jail, Maupin decided he was too old for a life of pimping at the age of 42 and moved to Los Angeles to become a writer. Beck wrote several more… Read More
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Mama Black Widow
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Mama Black Widow

by Slim, Iceberg

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9780870676574
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0870676571
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Holloway House Publishing Co., 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Covers betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages absent any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Mama Black Widow

Mama Black Widow

by Iceberg Slim (pseudonym of Robert Beck, born Robert Moppins, Jr.)

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9780870671760
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0870671766
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Los Angeles: Holloway House HH-176, 1969. Book. Illus. by Ron Wolin (cover illustration). Very Good. Paperback. First Edition.. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Paperback original. Slim/Beck/Moppins presents "a chronicle of Negro ghetto life which should be recognized as the most vivid and important ever published. Beck's premise is that hatred is as destructive to those who hate as it is to those who are hated. His life on Chicago's Southside lends ample authority to his writing." 313 pages + seven pages of advertisements for other Holloway House publications. A bit of edge-/corner wear, moderate handling wear, tanning..
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