SLIM, Iceberg (pseudonym of Robert Beck)Biblio.com
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1967606434Los Angeles California: Holloway House Publishing 1967. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Paperback original. A chip on the spine foot creasing and toning thus very good. Author's first book. Holloway House Publishing unknown
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
ANAIS-0870677594Holloway House Publishing Co. paperback. Good. 9.5X6.5X1.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Holloway House Publishing Co paperback
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2011Q-1451617135Cash Money Content 2011-05-10. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Cash Money Content paperback
0870677594.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1969343709Holloway House Books. 1969 early reprint. 806 almost near fine faint spine crease author's first book paperback Holloway House Books. paperback
0870679368.Gmass_market. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
140942164Los Angeles: Holloway House 1971. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Signed by Iceberg Slim on the first page in red sharpie "My best wishes to Chuck his rib Sandy signed Iceberg Slim R. Beck." 248 1 7 ads pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with creased and slightly leaning spine light wear. A nonfiction collection by the author of Pimp. Holloway House unknown
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2011Q-1936399016Cash Money Content 2011-09-13. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Cash Money Content paperback
0870679333.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. 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
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
1969106925Holloway 1969. Softcover. Very good/No jacket. First printing. Mild edgewear. Holloway unknown
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
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