NEGROES IN BRITAIN: A Study of Racial Relations in English Society.

Second revised edition; first thus (originally published in 1948). Inscribed presentation copy from the author to the British historian George Shepperson. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean and bright throughout. In the dustwrapper, showing some light wear to edges and corners. Not price-clipped (£4.50 net to the front flap). A nice association copy.

Inscribed in blue ink to the front free endpaper, "George, / But for whose encouragement / this fresh edition / might never have / been produced. / With many thanks / and best wishes / Kenneth Little / September 1972". The recipient is George "Sam" Shepperson (1922-2020), British historian, Africanist and William Robertson Professor of Commonwealth and American History at the University of Edinburgh from 1963 until 1986. Kenneth Little was a fellow professor at Edinburgh. In the Preface to the revised edition of this pioneering study, Little writes of the book's title that he knows "from a personal conversation with Mr. James Baldwin that the expression "Negro" is hateful to him and to many others [...]. It is possible that if I were writing about race relations in contemporary terms I should find some other expression [...], but I consider that [the book] has to be taken in its context."