James Baldwin Text (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 255 Pp + 1 Pp Ad At Rear. Probable First Printing With Seven Titles In List Of "The Four Great Americans Series" Before Title Page. Werner Name On Spine And Title Page. Green Cloth, Black Lettering And Design. The American Book Company File Copy (They Took Over This Werner Title Some Time After 1900), With Printed "Marked Copy" Label On Front Cover With Handwritten "#1", Note "Replaced By Marked Copy #2" And Stamped Mar 22 1915 Date On Front Pastedown, No Other Marks. Near Fine, Bright And Clean, Slight Rubbing At Corners, Although Two Tiny Frays At Top And Bottom Of Spine. Plates, Illustrations And Maps In Text (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Covers show some moderate yellowing, scuffing and discoloration. Additionally covers and edges show rubbing, scuffing, light bumping and other shelf wear. Pages show some light browning from age.

First edition (preceded by the UK Michael Joseph edition). Hardcover. Small quarto. A touch of foxing on the front endpapers and mild wear at the spine tips, otherwise fine in good dustjacket with a bit of edge wear, closed tears and two small (fingernail size) professionally restored chips on the bottom edge of the front panel (not affecting lettering or important illustration). $US price intact on jacket. Illustrated in colour and b/w by Yoran Cazac. A classic account of a Harlem childhood, and quite uncommon in both UK and US first editions. Scan available on request.…

First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Fine in fine dustjacket (sterling price intact, though there is a small browned area just at the price point, possibly from an Australian $ sticker affixed there at one time). Illustrated by Yoran Cazac. A classic account of a Harlem childhood, the UK and US edition similar in appearance, but uncharacteristically the UK precedes the US.…

Hardcover, missing slipcase. VG- covers have moderate soiling and wear to extrems. internally tight and bring, missing the slipcase.

softcover. Condition: Very good copy. 1st. Tall 8vo, Slight soiling to white wrappers, else nearly fine. First printing of the softcover edition. Illus. with photos (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some soil to publishers white boards, cover titles in black against silver boxed background. Insides are clean and entirely free of any former owner marking. The matching board slipcase with soil, partial split along bottom seam and age darkening. VG in a GOOD slipcase, no dust wapper present.…

First Dell printing. Paperback. Many photographs in black and white. -good.-(Cover sl. browned and sl. smudged, edges of block browned, some signs of use.).

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Folio, [92pp]. Glossy white paper covers, title in black on front cover and spine. Decorated with silver foil under print on both covers. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, light sunning to spine, otherwise fine condition. In the publisher's slipcase, with light wear to corners and small stains to panels. Edges remain strong, a very good example. Complete with 54 photographs and 2 gatefolds. (Parr & Badger, p. 252). Nothing Personal, released at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, pairs Baldwin's broad critique of American society with Avedon's bare-bone portraits to yield a unique, juxtaposing piece. A rare collectible. The first edition of Nothing Personal: Photographs by Richard Avedon and text by James Baldwin. This work was designed by Marvin Israel. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. folio. unpaginated. numerous b/w illus. (some fold-out illus.). bds. (covers soiled, extremities slightly rubbed). slipcase (surface abrasion on rear cover, soiled & worn, spine split). First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Provenance: Ex-Libris DDR (socialite) & John Barry Ryan III BALDWIN, James [text] & AVEDON, Richard [photographs] Atheneum Publishers w/ Slipcase 1964 14.5" x 11".

Condition: Gut. Erstauflage. 37 x 28 cm. ca. 100 S. OPb. mit OSchU. mit Orig.-Schuber. Einband und Schutzumschlag minimal berieben, Kanten und Kapitale minimal beschabt, Schuber staubfleckig, beschabt, berieben und an den Kapitalen leicht angeplatzt, sonst sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar.

4°, 274 S., zhalr. ganzseit. Abb., Kart. m. OU, OU min. gebrauchsspurig, allg. tadellos. «James Baldwins bei seiner Veröffentlichung 1963 heftig diskutierter Essay The Fire Next Time lenkte die Aufmerksamkeit der ganzen Welt auf die Rassenproblematik in den USA. Illustriert mit Fotografien von Steve Schapiro». 2600 gr. Schlagworte: Photographie, Geschichte - Politik nach 1945.…