Introduction Alex Haley (23 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. A testament of great emotional power, the book presents the Malcolm X that very few knew, the man behind the stereotyped firebrand - a sensitive, proud, highly intelligent man who passionately and lucidly articulated the struggle and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s. Cut short by the riddle of assassins' bullets, Malcolm X held the preminition that he would not live long enough to see this book appear. It is,in its dead level honesty, an established classic of modern America. 'The most important book I'll ever read. It changed the way I thought; it changed the way I acted' - Spike Lee.

Paperback. Condition: New. A testament of great emotional power, the book presents the Malcolm X that very few knew, the man behind the stereotyped firebrand - a sensitive, proud, highly intelligent man who passionately and lucidly articulated the struggle and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s. Cut short by the riddle of assassins' bullets, Malcolm X held the preminition that he would not live long enough to see this book appear. It is,in its dead level honesty, an established classic of modern America. 'The most important book I'll ever read. It changed the way I thought; it changed the way I acted' - Spike Lee.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. new edition. 528 pages. 7.75x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Trade Paperback. 217p., illus. in text, wraps lightly edgeworn, else very good condition.

Condition: FINE. First edition. A very attractively produced book - the story of the Somerset Place slaves who built the plantations, and of their descendants - and of their discovery of their heritage and of each other. Illustrated with numerous sepia toned photographs. Sources, 266 pp. Slightly oversized, family tree on endpapers. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Light wear to edges of jacket. Very light rubbing/bumping to edges of boards. Interior clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. No Edition Or Printing Indicated. Usual Library Markings. Gift Inscription On The Back Of The Half Title Page. The Upper Corner Of The Ffep Has Been Clipped. The Jacket Has Been Protected By Clear Plastic.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Introduction by Alex Haley. Small quarto. 66pp. Illustrated. Fine in glossy pictorial boards.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Grove Press 1966 Later Printing Very Good/ HARDCOVER. Rebound paperback by Perma-Bound. Tight tanned pages. Previous owner's stamp blotted out on title page. Sticker removal mark inside back cover.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd revised edition. 176 pages. 10.40x9.80x0.70 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. anv edition. 899 pages. 8.25x6.00x2.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. undated. boards are shelf rubbed. light marks. clean and presentable copy in good condition.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket has small repair bottom edge, otherwise without flaw. 7.5 X 9" 266 pages. Inspired by Alex Haley's Roots, what started as the simple desire to tell her daughter about her own family's history, became for Dorothy Redford a ten-year odyssey into the past. Her journey culminated triumphantly on Aug 30, 1986 when she brought together over two thousand descendants of the slaves who worked and lived at Somerset Place, an antebellum plantation in Washington County, North Carolina. Illustrated by black/white photographs.

First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (23.5cm); brown cloth spine over tan-paper covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and blind embossed on front cover; dustjacket; [xx],[2],3-266,[2]pp; pictorial family tree endpapers; photographic (halftones) illustrations. Inscribed at half-title: "To Elsie & Julian / my Best - / Dorothy Spruill Redford / 10/89". Very light shelfwear and faint, occasional interior fingersoil and wear, Near Fine. Dustjacket not price-clipped (priced $18.95) with light spine fading, spine ends crinkled, tiny tears along lower rear panel, and light tanning on upper verso; Near Fine. Blank Somerset Slave Quarter membership enrollment card laid in. Redford researched the history of slaves of North Carolina's Somerset Place plantation, created a homecoming for their descendants, and was executive director of Creswell's Somerset Place State Historic Site. Concludes with sources. [82708].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Early printing of the revolutionary classic. Grove Press, 1965; stated Fourth Printing, no later printings indicated; xiv, [1], 454pp. Introduction by M. S. Handler, Epilogue by Alex Haley, followed by Ossie Davis's "On Malcolm X". In Roy Kuhlman-designed jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; top board corners bumped, bottom front corner gently turned in, else wear to black boards is very minor, gold titling remains bold; very gentle bend to top corners of pages, mild foxing to top edge of page block; text very good throughout; mild toning to front end page due to laid-in magazine page (Jan 1973 Newsweek review of Goldman's The Death and Life of Malcolm X by Arthur Cooper). Unclipped ($7.50) dust jacket gently bumped at top corners, otherwise virtually no wear to edges; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. A very presentable copy of the trade edition. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges will apply for international and/or expedited shipping. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Publisher's Book Club with Tenth Printing stated on the copyright page. Clean and solidly bound in full cloth with unmarked interior and text. The front dust jacket flap has the publisher's price of $7.50 in the upper right hand corner and Book Club Edition in the lower right; a few minor chips to the upper spine folds of the jacket, else near fine; presents well under fresh archival mylar. NOT ex-lib. A clean, solid copy in jacket of this powerful and important work. 455pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd printing stated. Some staining to boards; binding tight; pages clean with faint speckling to top of text block. Unclipped ($7.50) dust jacket shows some spine fading and light overall staining. Not a book club edition: no BCE statement at bottom of front flap. 2.1 pounds. 455 pages + photos.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. - First Paperback Edition- 15th Printing- An Evergreen Black Cat Book, #146- SOFTCOVER, GOOD; light wear, po name; scant underling. 460 pp. with Publisher's Catalog of 'Other Grove Press Books on Race and Africa' at rear. MALCOLM X, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST, early SOCIAL JUSTICE PIONEER, revealing RACISM and INEQUALITY in AMERICA, SOCIETY, and AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4th Edition. "Fourth Printing" stated. Near fine, if not near fine plus or fine TRADE EDITION hardback in near fine, if not near fine plus or fine price-clipped dust jacket. No blind-stamp. Dust jacket has a 5/8 inch closed tear to top edge of front panel near spine and barely noticeable age-toning to a 3/4 inch band along top edge. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Second Printing. TEXT UNMARKED, DJ WITH CHIPS AND TEARS.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First edition. First edition, first printing. xvi, 455 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light edge wear, bumped top corner at front board, moderate offsetting at endsheets heavier at front endsheets from previously laid in paper. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with slight fading to spine, toning and a few small closed tears to edges with small scratch marks to front cover; two corner creases at front flap. The famous autobiography of Malcolm X published posthumously nine months after his assassination. Co-written by Alex Haley, the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family. It inspired the 1992 Spike Lee film Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington.

Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. Second printing of the first edition. A fantastic association copy signed by Alex Haley on the front free endpaper and inscribed to his editor Murray Fisher, "November 1965 / To my dear friend, Murray, whose inherent genuineness kept 'getting to' Malcolm X, until, finally, Malcolm would ask me how was (and eventually, even, he would write letters to) 'That Fisher fellow -' with respect and warmth - [signed] Alex." Fisher was Haley's longtime editor, who helped greatly shape his best-known works, Roots, as well as this title, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Fisher edited several of Haley's interviews for Playboy before leaving the magazine and Chicago in 1974, moving to Los Angeles to help Haley edit his epic, Roots. Haley thanked him in the acknowledgments when the book was published in 1976: "Murray Fisher had been my editor for years at Playboy magazine when I solicited his clinical expertise to help me structure this book from a seeming impassable maze of researched materials. After we had established Roots pattern of chapters, next the story line was developed, which he then shepherded throughout. [.] Finally, in the book's pressurized completion phase, he even drafted some of Roots scenes, and his brilliant editing pen steadily tightened the book's great length." Haley was completely overwhelmed by working on Roots, at one point, he expected the book to be published in three volumes spanning over 1800 pages. Fisher spent six years to organizing and polish the massive amounts of research material Haley gathered for Roots. Fisher came to play such an important role in developing Roots that Haley gave him ten percent of the book's literary rights and five percent of the motion picture rights. According to historian Robert J. Norrell, "Haley wrote the two most influential books in African-American history in the second half of the 20th century," Norrell notes, referring to The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) and Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). "Each of his books sold at least six million copies, and the films made from them were viewed and appreciated by the masses of America." 455 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with cloth lightly worn at corners and spine ends, lightly soiled and with light surface wear at the upper board. Contents tanned. Offsetting to endsheets with browning at the rear from a formerly laid in clipping. A very important association copy inscribed to a pivotal figure in Haley's career and who had a hand in the production of this book.