Elma Stuckey (16 results)

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

Condition: Good. 2nd printing. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st EDITION. This copy is NEAR FINE; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked except for gift inscription not by author on fep; binding is tight. The jacket is also near fine; intact, including perfect color and design, but small tears bottom front. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES. …

Hardcover. Precedent Publishing (Chicago), 1987, red hardback, no edition stated, NAP, Fine/Good dust jacket (worn & chipped along the top edge of the dj with about a 2" tear on each of the front & rear dj panel), 187 pages, POETRY AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE; G0083.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Introduction by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. Signed on half-title: "To Patti-/ You have my best wishes always / Elma Stuckey-/ 11-29-87." Newspaper obituary laid in. Tiny chip and crease on front dj panel. Ssigned and Inscribed by Autho.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. These are original and folk poems on the black American experience. 93 poems which communicate a range of feelings arising from slavery and the slave experience communicated with simplicity amd sometimes, humour.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Hardcover. Condition: Clean & Unmarked. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed twice. Signed by the author on the half title page and on page 74. Letter/invitation to an Elma Stuckey event laid in. Previous owner info on front free end paper. A very clean and straight copy. Dust jacket has a few tears at head of spine. Handsome. 187 pp. Signed by Author.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Minor shelf/edge wear. Uncreased spine,binding tight,inscribed to former owner by the author.Book is bent otherwise in very good condition.Text clean & unmarked.

Condition: good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highligting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Chicago, IL: Precedent Publishing, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth in dust jacket; xiii,[3],95pp. Moderate chipping and wear to jacket margins, spine panel sunned, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound. Scarce poetry collection by the Memphis-born author, the granddaughter of formerly enslaved people. Stuckey moved to Chicago with her family in 1945, where she "worked as a hat check girl, maid, rural school teacher, head nursery school teacher, and supervisor for the Illinois Department of Labor" (from the author bio on front jacket flap). …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Signed by the author's son to "George Shepperson for whom my mother would have taken great pleasure in inscribing this book". It also includes a letter of explanation. Professor Shepperson was an historian of all "things African" including The Slave Trade. Elma as the granddaughter of slaves writes with clarity about the complexity of the human condition.She employs irony across the poetic traditions found in this two volume collection of 187 poems made up of The Big Gate and Ribbons and Lace.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Signed by the author's son to "George Shepperson for whom my mother would have taken great pleasure in inscribing this book". It also includes a letter of explanation. Professor Shepperson was an historian of all "things African" including The Slave Trade. Elma as the granddaughter of slaves writes with clarity about the complexity of the human condition.She employs irony across the poetic traditions found in this two volume collection of 187 poems made up of The Big Gate and Ribbons and Lace.…

Hard cover. First edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 95 p. Audience: General/trade. For Samuel Allen who's support of my work is deeply appreciated. When Sterling tells me you did not have a copy of the big gate, I wanted, of course, to rectify that. I especially appreciate the quote and the jacket of this book 17 September 1988 Fine in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Light shelfwear, and some Edgware to the jacket, inscribed by the author two fellow writer Samuel Allen see inscription and general notes.…

dj. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. First edition. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. Signed.

Hardcover. xiii, 95p., inscribed by the African American poet to scholar Lawrence Levine; dust jacket spine is slightly sunned, corners are slightly bumped and mildly worn, else in very good condition in a like dust jacket.