White on Black on White.

Woodstock, VT:Countryman Press, 1983. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dowell was a composer, model, playwright, and writer; he committed suicide by leaping from the balcony of his building at age 60. This is described as a “docu-novel” on the subject of race, revolution and love. Blurbs by Maurice Sendak, Edmund White, John Hawkes, Tennessee Williams and Gilbert Sorrentino (!).