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Published by pyramid book,, 1952
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. first PB. 59, very good -fine, , reading crease (INTERRACIAL NOVEL), paperback,
Published by Pyramid Books Giant G59, 1952
Seller: DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Pyramid Books Giant G59, "John Henry was born to trouble--WOMEN TROUBLE!". Very good condition, Minor edge-wear on front cover. Faint scratch marks near spine on front cover. Reader's crease on spine. Rubbing-wear on spine. Minor edge-wear on top and bottom of spine. Small creases on the upper and lower left corners of the back cover. Line running along spine on back cover (see photo).
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Third printing in faded black cloth, lacking the dust jacket. Very good; not ex-library. A 'blues' novel set in Memphis in the 20s. 0.0.
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Third Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pages; Square sound copy in original cloth. Title design in orange and red to cover and spine, but rather dulled at spine. Cloth at spine sunned and moderately toned. Contents bright and clean; no marks. New Orleans, African American and dialect related novel. G+.
HB/noDW maroon boards , spine and corners slightly rubbed and worn, previous owners name in pencil inside front board, slight foxing, good reading copy.
hardcover. Condition: Molto buono (Very Good). Traduzione di Ottavio Farcito De Vinea. Illustrazioni a colori di Giorgio Dabovich . 8vo. pp. 112. . Molto buono (Very Good). . Pubblicazione mensile. Anno I - Dicembre 1932. . Prima collana economica della Mondadori ad alta tiratura e prezzi contenuti distribuita mensilmente nelle edicole. I testi pubblicati in questa ''collana di romanzi d'ogni Paese'' furono scelti da un'apposita commissione formata da Fernando Palazzi, Enrico Piceni, Lavinia Mazzucchetti, Cesare Giardini, Giacomo Prampolini ed il giovane Emilio Ceretti. I romanzi che avevano toni tragici o comici, delicati o scabrosi, erano divisi in due categorie segnalate da un contrasseggno colorato in copertina: quello blu indicava che l'opera poteva andare nelle mani di tutti, al contrario di quelli con il contrassegno rosso Pubblicazione mensile. Anno I - Dicembre 1932. Book.
Published by Mondadori, Milano, Milano, 1932
Seller: Studio Bibliografico Restivo Navarra, Enna, EN, Italy
Book
(Categ. Letteratura straniera) - (In 8.vo cm. 19x24,5) - (Legatura : Br. ed. figurata) - (Ed. : prima italiana) - (pp. 112) - (Collana : I romanzi della Palma - n. 8) Testo su due colonne, ill.ni di Giorgio Dabovich. Trad. Farcito de Vinea Ottavio. piccole mende al dorso.
Published by Mondadori, 1932
Seller: LIBRI RARI di Gattignolo Libraio-Editore, Vigevano, PV, Italy
Book First Edition
Brossura. Condition: buono. prima edizione. Gilmore Millen, Un negro irresistibile, Mondadori, Verona, 1932. Prima edizione. Pagine 112. Collana I romanzi della Palma n. 8. Corredato da alcune illustrazioni a colori f.t. Volume in buono stato con abrasioni e bruniture alla brossura e gore al frontespizio.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1930
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Credited by music historian Elijah Wald with having "the first printed description of a Mississippi juke joint" ("The Blue Blues," Oxford American, Issue 75, Winter 2011). The story of a "Negro vagabond," John Henry, teeming with "passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old Beale Street [and] sophisticated life of a decadent household in Hollywood"-from the publisher's jacket blurb (before it devolves into racist stereotypes). Written by a White journalist who spent his childhood and early adulthood on his family's plantation in Mississippi and, later, his own in Arkansas, where he worked, lived and, by his own account, spent at least some of his free time among the Black workers there. "Here is a novel from the lower depths, but fearlessly and powerfully written; and through it gleams the truth about whites and blacks in the South, certain aspects of which no writer has hitherto dared to show."-James Weldon Johnson. 8vo brown cloth stamped in orange and red; top and fore edges red; 299 pages. Near fine with bookseller ticket of J. W. Robinson Co., Los Angeles, at rear. Lacking dust jacket.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1930
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Second Printing. Wenck dustjacket art. African-American themed novel by this white author and southern newspaperman concerning John Henry. "the Negro vagabond, son of a mulatto and a white man." The dustjacket copy continues to state: "In him is the urge of the wanderer.new women loved and then forgotten. Only one woman is able to hold him for any length of time and after their marriage even she must give way to John Henry's burning desire for adventure. The pages of Sweet Man teem with elemental and casual passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old Beale Street, the sophisticated life of a decadent household in Hollywood." Dialect speech is made use of in the novel. Very Good, some light signs of dampstain at fore edge of covers, in Good dustjacket, vertical split at spine, lacks lower two inches of spine.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1930
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Second Printing. Wenck dustjacket art. African-American themed novel by this white author and southern newspaperman concerning John Henry. "the Negro vagabond, son of a mulatto and a white man." The dustjacket copy continues to state: "In him is the urge of the wanderer.new women loved and then forgotten. Only one woman is able to hold him for any length of time and after their marriage even she must give way to John Henry's burning desire for adventure. The pages of Sweet Man teem with elemental and casual passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old Beale Street, the sophisticated life of a decadent household in Hollywood." Dialect speech is made use of in the novel. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few tiny edge chips, spine colors moderately faded.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1930
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. Credited by music historian Elijah Wald with having "the first printed description of a Mississippi juke joint" ("The Blue Blues," Oxford American, Issue 75, Winter 2011). INSCRIBED BY MILLEN on front endpaper, "Inscribed for/ my friend George Woodruff/ with sincere personal regards/ Gilmore Millen/ Los Angeles/ June 11, 1930." The story of a "Negro vagabond," John Henry, teeming with "passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old Beale Street [and] sophisticated life of a decadent household in Hollywood"-from the publisher's jacket blurb (before it devolves into racist stereotypes). Written by a White journalist who spent his childhood and early adulthood on his family's plantation in Mississippi and, later, his own in Arkansas, where he worked, lived and, by his own account, spent at least some of his free time among the Black workers there. "Here is a novel from the lower depths, but fearlessly and powerfully written; and through it gleams the truth about whites and blacks in the South, certain aspects of which no writer has hitherto dared to show."-James Weldon Johnson. About very good with spine sunned but still readable; in a good, supplied (from another copy) dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine ends and corners.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1930
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Wenck dustjacket art. African-American themed novel by this white author and southern newspaperman concerning John Henry."the Negro vagabond, son of a mulatto and a white man." The dustjacket copy continues to state: "In him is the urge of the wanderer.new women loved and then forgotten. Only one woman is able to hold him for any length of time and after their marriage even she must give way to John Henry's burning desire for adventure. The pages of Sweet Man teem with elemental and casual passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old Beale Street, the sophisticated life of a decadent household in Hollywood." Dialect speech is made use of in the novel. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest wear and rubbing to edges and spine ends, unobtrusive squares of paper tape affixed to verso of jacket at spine and flap corners, small chip at mid front spine edge mended with scotch tape.