The Revolt of the Cockroach People

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1973). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 258 pp. Original khaki paper-covered boards, stamped in white, in original unclipped ($7.95) dust-jacket. Offset, some edge wear to jacket - particular to spine ends and tips. Tear to front panel, creasing to spine, stain to front panel, spine sunned. Book shows considerable foxing, sun damage to spine, smudges to panels and pages, toning to page edges - paper stock change, spine ends lightly curled.

Dust Jacket: Good

Hardcover: Good

“The Revolt of the Cockroach People is a novel by Oscar Zeta Acosta. It tells the story of a Chicano lawyer, "Buffalo Zeta Brown," fictionalizing events from Oscar Acosta's own life, including the East L.A. walkouts at Garfield High School, the founding of the Brown Berets, the Christmas protests at St. Basil's church, the Castro v. Superior Court decision of 1970, Acosta's run for sheriff of Los Angeles County later that year, the Chicano National Moratorium, and the death of Ruben Salazar, who is referred to as "Roland Zanzibar" in the novel. Acosta uses the historical events of the late 1960s and early 1970s "as the context for the construction of a Chicano identity and the realization of a revolutionary class consciousness.”