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Dunfords Travels Everywheres - William Melvin Kelley First Edition, Advance Review Copy, Doubleday 1970 Kelley's fifth and final book, a brilliant weaving of dream-like narratives heavily inspired by Finnegans Wake employing an invented afro-centric dialect.
Kelley had drifted into relative obscurity until a recent New Yorker piece unearthed his work and described him as "The Lost Giant of American literature".
Kelley is also known for introducing the world to the term "woke" in a 1962 New York Times article titled "If You're Woke, You Dig It".
Tan cloth stamped in black, pp.
[xiv], 201, [1], advance review slip laid in; Near fine book with a couple small splits to rear hinge in a VG+ jacket, light soil, fading to tail of spine, light rubbing to spine.
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