If He Hollers Let Him Go.

HIMES, Chester.

$500.00

Item Number: 147268

London: The Falcon Press, 1947.

First English edition of the author’s first book dealing with prejudice shipyard workers during WWII. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

In his first novel, American novelist Chester Himes realizes the excruciating injustice of racism in writing through four days in the life of shipyard crew leader Robert "Bob" Jones. As he experiences hostility and entrapment from a white-supremacist world, Jones must contend with the rage seething inside of him and learn to live without it. Well-received by its audience, Himes' book joined the "protest novel" genre first established by Richard Wright, illustrating "the change in mentality of the American Negro from the humble supplicant for justice to an enraged and rebellious people" (Chicago Sun).