Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1954

8vo. pp. 350. Original black patterned boards, lettered in silver to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket, photographic author's portrait to rear panel. Top edge light red, leading edge uncut. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, lightly edgeworn and with wear and a little loss to head of spine.

First edition.

Himes' fourth novel, published three years before For Love of Imabelle, the first of the Harlem Detective crime novels for which he would become much better known.