Palante: Young Lords Party (First Edition) by Abramson, Michael (photographs, text); Young Lords Party (text) - 1971

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971. First Edition. Slim quarto. First Edition. The first book to be published on the Puerto Rican revolutionary political party, the Young Lords Party, with great black-and-white photographs throughout by Abramson. Compiles interviews, poems, and biographical accounts from the party, at once violent and peaceful. Art direction by Harris Lewine, designed by Herb Lubalin. An attractive copy of an important volume on Puerto Rican political and social culture. Near Fine and unread in a Very Good plus or better dust jacket. Slight fraying at the heel, else about Fine. Tiny chip at the jacket heel, and a few tiny closed tears with short corresponding creases at the top edge of the rear panel, else about Fine.