New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Stein and Day, 1965

8vo, pp. 256. Original black quarter boards, lettered in gilt to pink spine. Author's initials blind stamped to front panel. Illustrated dust jacket, author's photographic portrait to rear panel. Loss of gilt to spine, but a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a little fading to spine.

First US, and first hardback edition. First published by the Olympia Press in Paris in 1961.

Sex, politics and sexual politics across the racial divide, and for that reason published in France first and the US only later. 'Pinktoes is a term of indulgent affection applied to white women by Negro men, and sometimes conversely by Negro women to white men, but never adversely by either.' (Chester Himes)