Color Blind: A White Woman Looks at the Negro by Margaret Halsey

Color Blind: A White Woman Looks at the Negro
by Margaret Halsey

New York: Simon & Schuster
First edition, 1946

SIGNED and inscribed by Halsey on the front page: "For Virginia Powell, with best wishes, Margaret Halsey"

Condition: Hardcover; no dust jacket. Very minor apparent outer wear. Interior is unmarked, and binding is firm.

wiki: "Margaret Halsey (February 13, 1910 – February 4, 1997) was an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Toward Some (1938) grew out of her experiences there. It was a witty and humorous bestseller, selling 600,000 copies. It won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1938, voted by members of the American Booksellers Association. / According to her obituary in The New York Times, she was "a witty writer with an acute social concern, [and] was compared to Dorothy Parker and H. L. Mencken". / Several of her books were controversial or took on controversial subjects. She wrote two books inspired by her experiences volunteering as a hostess at the racially-integrated Stage Door Canteen in Times Square: a novel, Some of My Best Friends Are Soldiers, and Color Blind: A White Woman Looks at the Negro. The latter was banned in Georgia and favorably reviewed by Margaret Mead."