First edition.
Octavo.
153pp.
Faint stain on front board, near fine in price-clipped and slightly soiled near fine dust jacket.
Freeform essays and reflections about Black domestic servants by the author of *Vibration Cooking, or The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl*.
Inscribed by the author to a noted African-American book collector: "to Dan Johnson - Keep the Faith - Verta Mae.
NYC.
1974.
" Considering it was issued by a mainstream publisher, a surprisingly uncommon title.