NMLP P-040600 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

For Love of Imabelle (A Rage in Harlem)

Chester Himes · Fawcett Gold Medal (Greenwich, Conn. / New York) — paperback original · 1957

No book-club edition exists — the title was born as a mass-market paperback original. The reprint tells run the other way: Avon G1244 (1965) and every subsequent printing titled A Rage in Harlem are reprints under a new title, as are modern editions marketed as "For Love of Imabelle (formerly A Rage in Harlem)" or under the Harlem Cycle / Harlem Detectives series branding. Later Gold Medal printings of #717 state the printing on the copyright page.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-040600 for "For Love of Imabelle (A Rage in Harlem)" by Chester Himes (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040600, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).