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196968698Los Angeles: Holloway House 1969. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. Ca. 1971 Reprint with new cover art and $1.50 price. Wraps darkened and slightly rubbed faint crease to top corner of rear else very good with a flat uncreased spine. Holloway House unknown
1969343709Holloway House Books. 1969 early reprint. 806 almost near fine faint spine crease author's first book paperback Holloway House Books. paperback
1969310508HOLLOWAY hOUSE PUBLISHING 1969 soft cover in good conditionfirst few pages have damp stain at base. Soft cover. Good. HOLLOWAY hOUSE PUBLISHING paperback
2000736093104Holloway House Publishing Company 2000. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Minor shelf and handling wear overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Holloway House Publishing Company paperback
1986320Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co. 1986. 1986 reissue by the original publisher first published 1971. Softcover. Very Good. Pocket-size 4 1/8 x 6 7/8. A nice copy with no signs of having been read -- no reading creases no spine creases. Spine not exactly square but nearly so. This reissue appears to have been printed on acid-free thick paper so there is none of the toning or fragility usually associated with pocket paperbacks this old. A little smudging and a small light pencil markto the fore-edge. Page edges bumped at top corner. Cover still shiny although there is some surface abrasion and minor edgewear and some cover wear at spine-ends. Bookstore label on back cover. Holloway House Publishing Co. paperback
19693773Los Angeles: Holloway House 1969. mass market paperback. Book VG-: mild toning and shelf wear to wraps and spine text clean binding tight. 16mo. 312pp. Holloway House BH416. see pictures for synopsis. scarce copy. #03839. Holloway House unknown
1969G0870676571I3N00Holloway House Publishing Co. 1969. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Holloway House Publishing Co. paperback
1987h01470<p>Los Angeles: Holloway House 1987. Softcover. 7 x 4.25 inches. 320 pp. Very Good. Mild wear to wraps.</p> Holloway House paperback
1969106925Holloway 1969. Softcover. Very good/No jacket. First printing. Mild edgewear. Holloway unknown
19692337Los Angeles: Holloway House 1969. First Edition. Perfect-bound duodecimo in decorative type wraps. 312pp 1 7pp advertisements. Worn about edges with small closed tears .25" to middle of fore edges of front and rear wraps; some creasing soiling; binding and spine sound and uncreased; pages and inside wraps age-toned. Very Good. True first printing with all points stated First Printing HH-176 to cover of Slim's pulp classic. Holloway House unknown
1998Q-0802135889Grove Press 1998-09-21. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Grove Press paperback
1969615461Los Angeles: Holloway House 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Mass market paperback. 312pp. Small chips at the foot of the spine about near fine. The tragic story of Black drag queen Otis Tilson. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn with an estate label designed by their son Jonathan Shahn. Holloway House unknown
1971Q-0870677586Holloway House Pub Co 1971. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Holloway House Pub Co paperback
1967361558Los Angeles: Holloway House 1967. First Edition. Mass market paperback. Very good. Later retitled "the story of a white Negro." Filmed in 1972.<br /> <br /> 312 pages. HH-151; 95 cents on cover. First printing stated. A very good copy in wrappers mass market paperback. Spine creased; some creasing to covers paperback. Holloway House unknown
1987Q-0870679791Holloway House Books 1987-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Holloway House Books paperback
1969140943428Los 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. Holloway House Publishing Co unknown
1969064414Holloway House Publishing. Paperback in Good condition there are no stamps writing or marks paper is tanning with age a couple small creases straight spine good binding unmarked pages a nice reading copy The Biography of a Con Man . Good. Paperback. 1969. Holloway House Publishing paperback
1969605993Los Angeles: Holloway House 1969. Softcover. Very Good. 1969 edition. Paperback original. Pages are uniformly toned faint crease on spine a better than usual very good copy. Holloway House unknown
1969140944986Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co 1969. First edition. First edition. 312 8 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with single crease to spinea few stains to edges pages toned with age nice shape overall. Holloway House Publishing Co unknown
196747922Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing. Fair. 1967. Softcover. Regular shelf wear; Scuffing; Bumping and chipping to edges and corners; Creasing on spine; Slight yellowing consistent with age ; 317 pages . Holloway House Publishing paperback
1996DADAX0870679759Brand: Holloway House 1996-04-01. mass_market. New. 4.25x1.00x7.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Holloway House unknown
1969204301969. Beck Robert writing as Iceberg Slim Mama Black Widow and The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim 1969 and 1971 brings together two Holloway House paperbacks central to African American urban literature street fiction Black pulp publishing and queer representation. Beck born Robert Lee Maupin and later known as Iceberg Slim became a major figure in postwar Black popular literature after Pimp: The Story of My Life appeared in 1967; his later books included fiction autobiography essays and social commentary rooted in the language and violence of the urban underworld. Mama Black Widow is especially significant for LGBTQ history because it centers Otis Tilson a Black queer character whose life is shaped by Southern racism Northern migration poverty family collapse and sexual violence placing Black queer experience within the same urban and racial worlds that made Iceberg Slim's work influential in African American literary and popular culture.<br /> <br /> The archive consists of two first edition paperback books published by Holloway House Publishing Co. in Los Angeles each approximately 300 pages and measuring about 4.25 x 7 inches. 1 Beck Robert. Mama Black Widow. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co. 1969. First edition paperback. The novel follows Otis Tilson and his family from the racial violence and economic restriction of the South into Chicago's urban underworld where poverty prostitution crime and family trauma structure the narrative; later descriptions of the book identify Otis as a Black homosexual character in conflict with pimps police and the racial order around him. 2 Beck Robert. The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co. 1971. First edition paperback. Collection of autobiographical and reflective essays in which Beck addresses his life as a pimp drug user prisoner and writer opening with the statement: "I want to say at the outset that I have become ill insane as an inmate of the torture chamber behind America's fake facade of justice and democracy. But I am not as ill as I was and I am getting better all the time."<br /> <br /> Together the books document the cultural force of Holloway House's Black urban paperback list and the tensions in Iceberg Slim's authorship: exploitation-market packaging autobiographical authority carceral critique racial anger misogynistic underworld material and a rare Black queer protagonist in late-1960s pulp fiction. Irvine Welsh has described Iceberg Slim as doing for the pimp what Jean Genet did for the homosexual and thief and William Burroughs did for the junkie a comparison that points to Slim's literary importance as an insider narrator of criminalized and stigmatized social worlds. Minor wear from age and spine use; pages yellowed as expected; both books remain intact and clean; overall very good. Focused African American and LGBTQ literary grouping documenting Black pulp fiction queer urban representation and Iceberg Slim's movement from underworld memoir toward broader social and autobiographical critique. unknown
1967WB-PB-500-502<p>Pimp: The Story of My Life is the 1969 autobiography of Robert Beck better known as Iceberg Slim detailing his life as a pimp in Chicago's underworld from the 1930s to the 1960s offering a raw brutal and influential look at street life exploitation and survival becoming a classic in urban literature. The book is known for its unflinching honesty about the sex trade violence and the psychological manipulation used to control women while also exploring the societal constraints that led him to this life.</p> Halloway House paperback
1969EB-PB-07-06199<p>Mass market paperback. 13th Printing. Marker letter 'B' on top and bottom edge of textblock wraps darkened and slightly rubbed else about very good with a flat uncreased spine.</p> Holloway House Publishing paperback
19677739Los Angeles CA: Holloway House Publishing Co 1967. First Printing. Paperback 317 pages. Very Good. First Printing. Rare. Foxing to front and back covers text block and inner covers both front and back. Age wear to text block. Light soiling to text block. Creasing to front and back covers. Holloway House Publishing Co paperback
