Hardcover first edition, first printing. Stated First Edition with "1" present in complete number line. Signed and inscribed "For Regina" by Mosley on the title page. Not a book club, reminder or ex-library copy. A fine (unread) copy in fine jacket. Mosley is the author of both Science Fiction, Mystery and Fiction. A prescient book published back in 2000 subtitled: Library of Contemporary Thought with Mosley's statement on the rear cover arrows to the subject of history for Black Americans - "Black American history is American history. There is an echo of Jim Crow in the HMO: people shunted aside, denied access, and allowed to suffer with no real democratic recourse." Mosley has just been awarded the 2020 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by the National Book Foundation.