A Brave and Startling Truth

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A first edition, hardcover copy of A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou. The cloth bound hardcover book has an adhesive binding. The book’s dust jacket has dark, medium, and light blue vertical stripes interspersed with two yellow stripes and one orange stripe. The author’s name is printed in large, black text over the top half of the dust jacket that reads [MAYA / ANGELOU]. The book’s title, [A / BRAVE / AND / STARTLING / TRUTH], is printed in white text inside a black box centered at the bottom half of the dust jacket. Printed on the blue dust jacket spine is the author’s name printed in white text at the top, and the book’s title printed in white inside a black rectangular box at the center. At the bottom is the publisher’s name, [RANDOM / HOUSE] printed in white text below a small, white, house shaped graphic.

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