Editor Bontemps (41 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 331pp. Photos sent on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Wrapper is toned with a creased front bottom corner. Edgewear. Former owner's name on inside of wrapper. Light toning to text edges.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Eleventh Printing. Cover scuffed at edges. No markings. 197p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Good. This book is a hardcover copy.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Trade paperback, fading, wear to exterior; former owner's name written in top corner of front cover and inside front cover; small amount of underlining and margin notes; acceptable condition with firm binding.

Paperback. Condition: Fair - Cash. Heavy wear to cover, corners and edges. Heavy creasing to cover. Previous owner's name written inside and to edge of textblock. Writing behind front cover. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

paperback. Condition: GOOD. First Edition, pbk. 1968. Mentor Vintage pbk. Appears to be first print. Small hole punch on front cover (please see photo). Stamp on cover page and inside back cover. Age toning to pages. Unmarked text appears to be free of highlighting, underlining or writing. Softcover book shows edge, corner and shelf wear from normal use. Binding is solid, square. Photos included with this listing are of the actual book you will receive. BLACK VOICES An Anthology of Afro-American Literature. 1968. Ships quickly and with care.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. good paperback, wear to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 319 Pp. Red Cloth, Spine Lettered In Black. First Printing. Near Fine, In Dust Jacket Priced $4.95, Worn, With Small Losses At Corners. Ownership Signature Of Jazz Journalist Paul W. Blair, Crossed Out, Also Signature Of ?? "Joseph A. Winly".

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. good paperback, wear to cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good+++. No Jacket. Foreword by Arna Bontemps. Profusely illustrated.Index. 136pp. Orange pictorial cloth cover with title on front board and spine.Ex Library with discharge stamp on front inside board and front lining paper. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover.

Hardcover. 8vo. Pink (yes, pink!) cloth spine and black paper over boards, dust jacket. xix, 331pp. Good plus/good plus. Red remainder mark across top page edges; pink dust jacket (front and rear panels) quite nice, though pink background of spine quite faded, though black spine lettering still bold. Later printing of this noted collection, tight and decent -- ex-library, though with relatively few and mostly-removed markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Second printing, same format as the first printing, and in the same month of publication. Price clipping, else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Seventeenth printing. Front free endpaper has been removed, thus only good in a very good (moderate edge wear) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: issued without. Second edition. 4to, 136 pages, pictorial cloth. Illustrated from drawings, photogravures. Issued in the Faces and Place of the New World series.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 340 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 319 Pp. Red Cloth, Spine Lettered In Black. First Printing. Near Fine, In Dust Jacket Priced $4.95, Which Is Worn, Short Tears, With Small Losses At Corners. No Marks.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Johnson, Harper (illustrator). Ex-library with all the markings. Binding tight; interior clean; decorative end pages. Pictorial boards show mild to moderate shelf wear with bumping at corners and spine ends; minor fading at spine. Illustrated in black and white throughout, this biography about the great scientist and inventor is geared toward kids. 181pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A series of original essays on the subject by the above as well as other important black writers and personalities such as Ossie Davis and Saunders Redding. A fine, unclipped and unmarked copy in a Brodart cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Publisher: Hill & Wang, 1967, Good, Soft Cover, 197 pp, cover wear/crease & discoloration. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Introduction by Arna Bontemps. Very good (gift inscription ffep) in a very good dust jacket (spine sunned, price-clipped, closed tear rear), in Mylar.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Thus. SUBTITLED : ` An Autobiography '. 333 pages including INDEX. Read about the musician honing his gun skills to protect himself in racially charged situatuins, ._._. or , how he learned about Joe Louis the boxer, ._._. or, how he changed the title of a ragtime number so he could play it in a church. Warning he uses the `n' word - both of them. William C. Handy's father was a preacher so music was seen as the playground of the devil. Read about : the york, bull fiddles, quadroons, measures, and Cricket Smith. Cond : paper wrapper is brown with orange lettering and decoration. Front cover illustration is a b/w (sepai) photo of Handy playing the cornet. Edges chipped or worn, sun fading at spine. No names, marks, creases, nor tears. Binding tight, volume square. Excellent references for music students. Small section of b/w photos at center. Quote (p. 51) : " ._._. in the `bear-wallow'. W.A. Mahara made it a point always to prepare for the worst while hoping for the best. During our enforced idleness, something told me to brush up on my shooting. In addition to the arsenal in the bottom of the car, I had my own private collection of ._. _._. ." Size: 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, who provided an introduction and warmly inscribed this copy to author Richard Peery and his wife. First publication of original essays by the aforenamed authors. No other inscription or notations present: this copy is almost new and unclipped in a Brodart cover. Signed.

Paperback. Condition: Good. ***Please Read*** Name written inside cover - No marks on text - My shelf location - 57-c-34*.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Decent for age, minor wear, some scuffing and edgewear on cover.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First/First. Hill and Wang, NY, 1963, 197 pages. First/First edition in Very Good+/Very Good+ condition, with a bit of edgewear, edge soiling, and a tear to ffep of boards, and a few small tears top edge of dj in a clear acetate archival cover. Otherwise book is tight, square, and unclipped $4.95 price present. (Please review photos). The book is an Anthology containing 171 poems by 55 poets. Four early poems by Leroi Jones has an entry by previous owner indicating Mones was using the name Imamu Amira Baraka as of 1971. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box Green boards with black lettering.