Street Players by GOINES, Donald - 1973

Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Company, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Detroit author's fourth stand-alone novel, "a gutsy account of an inner city gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover...He's known as Earl the Black Pearl, and he's up from the ghetto - way up. He views the streets from his fashionable penthouse with its wall-to-wall silk suits and women. He's everybody's mellow fellow, a big spender, the toast of the Inner City" (from rear wrapper). Goines, deeply influenced by the works of Iceberg Slim, cranked out sixteen novels during his brief literary career; he was found murdered with his common-law wife in their Detroit apartment on October 21, 1974. HUBIN, p. 171. First Printing, a paperback original novel (BH430). Octavo (17.5cm); illustrated wrappers; 190,[2]pp. Some trivial wear to wrapper extremities, a hint of soil to upper cover, textblock toned due to poor paper stock, else Near Fine and unread.