First thus. African American writer's second book, originally published in 1971 - a combination of memoir and literary criticism - in part, a book about one black intellectual's perspectives on a number of white Southern writers (Robert Penn Warren and Walker Percy among others) and in part recollections of Murray's boyhood and youth. SIGNED on the title page. ML binding style 17 with Modern Llibrary running torchbearer end papers and a photographic dust jacket. 266 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.