Item #39740 From Michael de Freitas to Michael X. Michael Abdul MALIK.
From Michael de Freitas to Michael X.
From Michael de Freitas to Michael X.

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From Michael de Freitas to Michael X.

London: André Deutsch, 1968. First edition. 8vo. Red boards. 207pp. Dw. photographs of Michael Abdul Malik by Horace Ové.

Copies, even unsigned, are not common. Michael X took a quantity with him to Trinidad in 1971, all of which were lost in the fire that engulfed his house. A Pathé newsreel from 1972 shows a stack of them at Christina Gardens (Michael's agricultural commune in Arima, near Port of Spain), and a photograph accompanying VS Naipaul’s article for The Sunday Times Magazine two years later shows a page from a charred copy found in the burnt out embers (see item #91).

Very Good plus in price-clipped dw.

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