Tally's Corner: A study of Negro streetcorner men, by Elliot Liebow (HC, 1967, first edition, $6, which is 1/3 the current internet price.)
"For all intents and purposes Tally Jackson lives on a streetcorner in Washington. He is part of a group of men who congregate in their idle hours in front of the New Deal Carry-out shop... To the casual passerby Tally and his friends seem an idle, shiftless lot, happy in their shabby surroundings, social outcasts who are content to remain outside the mainstream of American society. But these men are not social outcasts because they were never part of 'society' to begin with..."
I have never seen this book in hardcover, much less in a first edition, but here it is. Check out this classic in the sociology section, avail. 10/19.
