Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Coles on the front free endpaper and inscribed, "March, 1968 To Bob, Berkley's children will never go through what these boys + girls did -- Thanks to people like you. My best regards, Bob." Bound in publisher's tan cloth lettered in navy blue. Very Good with concave spine, moderate foxing and former owner (Robert Whitenack) name stamp to top edge, fore edge, and front free endpaper. Musty odor to contents. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with small circular sticker at foot, toning, soiling and light edge wear; tape repairs to verso. Coles' study of children in response to his time spent counseling Ruby Bridges and other African American children after desegregation in New Orleans. The author would later go on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1973.
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