Elbow Room
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1977.
First edition, first printing. Signed by James Alan McPherson on the title page. [x], 241 pp. Bound in publisher's green paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on spine. Very Good+ with light wear, price label to front pastedown. Binding a little free at title page and following leaf, starting to go. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket.
A very presentable signed first edition of McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection. McPherson was the first African-American to be awarded a Pulitzer, and the three-person jury praised him for his "humane, articulate, and sensitive exploration of the American Black experience."
Price: $2,000