Himes, Chester. Pinktoes. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. First American edition. 256 pages, about 6" x 8." Humorous novel of sexual integration and social justice satire by the hard-boiled author most known for his Harlem Detective series. Chester Himes' oeuvre is incredibly versatile and his stories often touch on.....
United Artists. Cotton Comes to Harlem promotional stills, 1970, document one of the earliest films associated with the emergence of the blaxploitation genre and the expansion of Black-directed and Black-centered narratives in American cinema. Directed by Ossie Davis and based on Chester Himes’ novel, the film situates its story within.....
HIMES, Chester. Run Man Run. New York: G.P. Putnam's Son's, 1966. First American edition; (was first published in French, in Paris in 1959). Illustrated dust jacket; price clipped; boards in orange cloth with black lettering and gun design to spine. One of Himes' main crime novels, Run Man Run centers.....
[African-American Fiction], [Harlem] Himes, Chester. Cotton Comes To Harlem. New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1966. First Dell printing. First paperback edition. 224 pages. Tan paperback illustrated wrappers with black and red lettering. Octavo. Cotton Comes To Harlem is the sixth and best-known novel in Chester Himes's Harlem Detective series. The.....
[African American Fiction] Himes, Chester. Lonely Crusade. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First edition. 398 pages. Bound in original publishers brown cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering to the spine and blind stamped front cover. In original red, white, and blue striped dust jacket with cream colored lettering. Octavo. Lonely.....
