Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death by Melvin Van Peebles - 1973

Bantam Books. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1973. First Paperback Edition. Hardcover. Rubbing and toning overall, yellowing to the pages, and brief bumps to the corners. Photos upon request. International shipping billed at cost.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages .

Toronto/New York/London: Bantam Books (R7678). Near Fine. 1973. First Edition. Softcover. [about as nice a copy as you could hope to find, tight and clean with just a tiny bit of age-toning to the edges of the text block]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) Van Peebles's "most explosive, award-winning play . . . in a totally unique fiction form: a novel with lyrics, a gutsy, lusty narrative of black street life that explores every aspect of ghetto agony. Peopled by junkies, whores, pimps, sweating workers and crooked cops, prisoners, lovelorn lesbians, drag queens and dreamers." The stage musical, structured as "a series of 19 politically outspoken, darkly comic, and sexually charged musical monologues" (Wikipedia), was derived from songs on several albums that Van Peebles had recorded between 1968 and 1970. First produced at Sacramento State College in 1970, it opened off-Broadway in October 1971 and later transferred to the Ambassador Theatre, a Broadway… Read More

New York: Bantam Books, 1973. 156 pp. Illustrated stiff paper wraps. Overall toning as expected from paperback books of this period. Otherwise, cover, binding and text block are clean, square and tight throughout. Apparently this copy has never been read. Based on Van Peebles play of the same title, this novel has "lyrics, a gutsy, lust narrative of black street life the explores every aspect of ghetto agony." Scarce.. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fiine. 4" x 7".