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Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1968. Hard Cover. 235 p.; 22 cm. Thom Demijohn is the pseudonym of Thomas Michael Disch and John Thomas Sladek. Disch was an American science fiction author and poet; Sladek was an American science fiction author known for his satirical and surreal novels. An eleven-year-old white heiress is cheated out of her fortune by being kidnapped and turned black, where she becomes invisible to the white community. A satirical commentary on race in the U.S. Vg; book club edition / dj good+, worn along edges. Stock#47706.

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, (1968). Hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Book club edition. Ostensibly a light-hearted suspense novel, this story of an 11 year old heiress who is abducted and disguised as a little black girl - white Alice becomes Black Alice - is really a commentary on our racial attitudes and on the invisibility of those in the black community to the white. 224 pp. Great wraparound dust jacket art by Virginia Fritz.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1968. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one small nick to the rear foredge and some beginning rubbing to the spine ends and corners. "During the 1960s, in Virginia, while the blacks fight for their civil rights, a young white girl is kidnapped in Baltimore. Little Alice Raleigh, eleven years and blonde like corn, and heiress of an immense fortune, is held for a ransom of a million dollars. Her kidnappers, trying to make her invisible to the police officers and the federal agents searching for her, manage to brown her skin and her hair. They sequester her under an assumed name in a house held by an old black woman, near Norfolk, which turns out to be a house of prostitution. Slowly, Alice adapts… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1968 As New Book Club Edition Of This Satirical Thriller In Which A Little Blonde Heiress Is Kidnapped And Hidden By Coloring Her Skin And Hair So That She Looks Black.

NY: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1968. 1st printing, 1968. Book is tight and unread with only minor hints of wear.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Doubleday & Company, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. W.F. Fritz Dj Art. Satirical thriller of race relations in the 60s in which a black girl kidnaps a white girl. Book and jacket are clean, whole and unmarked, with very tiny chips at jacket spine corners. Protected in a Brodart jacket cover.

Garden, City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Advance copy with complimentary stamp from the publisher on the front pastedown. Pseudononymously written collaboration between Thomas K. Disch and John T. Sladek. An about very good copy with a small stain to the rear panel in an about good dust jacket with some edge chips, tears and some small stains as well. Still, a presentable copy.

Doubleday, 1968. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus/Very Good. Near-fine with a touch of shelf wear, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good plus dust jacket (price intact) with slight rubbing to spine ends and corners. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. 0x0x0. The Dust Jacket Is Lightly Creased At The Outer Edges. There Is A Small Gift Inscription At The First End Paper. The Text Is Clean With No Remarks Or Highlights. Price Clipped Dust Jacket. First Edition Stated. The Front Gutter Is Damaged. 1St Us Edition American Edition.- We can ship from Canada and the USA, based on your address. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.