John O Killens (46 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

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.

630 S., HC, 8°, Ln mit SU, Papier gebräunt, sonst noch ordentlich Sprach: deu 777.

0. 2. Auflage, 605 S., 8°, Ln. mit SU. (LV BR3). Band: 0.

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 566pp; Slight shelf wear to edges and inside d/w toned else very good; Size: 8vo. Book.

SieheBeschreibung. Condition: sieheBeschreibung. Roman. Ln. 8 ° 605 S Ln. angeschmutzt.

Hardcover. 566p., hardbound first edition in clothbacked boards. Slight wear and soiling to edges lacks the jacket, library bookplate (no other markings) with withdrawn stamp, pencilled dealer codes of Peter Howard at Serendipity Books, otherwise in good condition lacking the jacket. Macon, Georgia born African American novelist.

Condition: VERY GOOD. 2nd printing, just one year after the first. African American author's first book,set in the deep South factory town of Crossroads, Georgia during the late 1920's and early 1930's. 366 pp. Very good in a very good dust jacket (toning to the pages, some wear to the dj, especially at the ends of the spine.).

Small handbill, 5.5x8.5 inches, all text printed on one side only, very good condition.

Magazine. 63p., 6x9 inches, poetry, stories, fund-raising letter laid-in, very good Leftist literary journal in stapled gray wraps. Editor Sanora Babb was a member of the CP, the John Reed Club, and worked for the FSA. She was blacklisted by HUAC and moved to Mexico. Married to cinematographer James Wong Howe.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 4to, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Includes poems by Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen, statements on the Goldwater presidential candidacy by Paul Robeson and others (including a memorable cover by Hugo Gellert), and unpublished letters by Ernest Hemingway. Unmarked copy, light wear. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. b/w Photos (illustrator). Not Indicated. Covers and edges soiled, otherwise in nice condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd printing. Octavo. Condition: minor chipping & nicks to DJ; slight wear to binding; pages tanned; else VG/VG. 566 pages.

Third printing (same format as the first). Hardcover. A little light foxing on the back endpapers and edges, ownership signature on the front fixed endpaper (hidden under the flap), otherwise very good in good price-clipped dustjacket. First novel (about a black Georgia family in the early 1900s) of an author who was an important member of the Black Arts Movement, in a handsomely illustrated jacket by British artist James Boswell.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Printing. 566pp. Orange cloth boards with title on spine. Chipped pictorial Dust Jacket. Author's first novel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Condition: VG. NY 1955 2nd. printing. Killen's first novel. Hardcover. Orange papercovered boards. 566pp. VG, one of front blank end papers has long closed tear; text toned. Binding secure. VG DJ (dj without any orange color; price present) light wear on dj edges.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Price clipped. Fox-spotting to inside of dj & end papers.

Softcover. First Edition. Octavo; pp 128; G-/paperback; beige spine with blue and black text; cover have slight soiling to exterior; splitting at joints; some chips to edges; text block edges show mild toning; interior lightly toned; profusely illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Oversized Ephemera Shelves. 1334465. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. 566pp; ; 205 x 135mm.

Condition: Gut - gebraucht. Gebundene Ausgabe, 630 S., Buch in gutem altersbedingtem Zustand, kein SU, sauberes exemplar Zustand: 3, Gut - gebraucht, Gebundene Ausgabe, Volk und Welt, Berlin, , 1973 630 S., , Und dann hörten wir den Donner , Killens, John O.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 142pp. Pictorial Soft Cover. Novel. Made into a spectacular motion picture starring Stephen Boyd, Dionne Warwick and Ossie Davis. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback.

Leinen. Condition: Befriedigend. 1. Auflage. John O. Killens- Stadt am Kreuzweg Leinen, 1956, Volk und Welt Verlag, 1. Auflage, zufriedenstellender Zustand, Einband unsauber und etwas bestoßen, gebräunt Gewicht : 750 g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 566p. Publishers original cloth over boards with a well preserved dust jacket with just minor chips to the spine head of the jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. White, Charles (illustrator). First Edition. (1st) Slightly smaller book, dark peach cloth, ink name and date inside top front cover, 176 lightly browned pages plus Epilogue. Dedicated to Harry Belafonte. DJ has light brown background to front and spine with illustration of powerful black man on front by Charles White. DJ has tiny brown smudge near bottom front tip, very tiny nick at bottom front edge, thin tiny tear at top back edge, b/w photo of Killens on back, white portion very slightly and uniformly browned. Very Good DJ/Very Fine book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Anthony Aviles and Don Charles Photographers (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition (1966.) 4to paperback with 128 pages. The book is in good condition with some shelf wear and slight bumping to edges. A scrape along the cover and some toning due to age. Interior is clean and tight. "A vivid story of this powerful, region of New York City, leading to the changes and upheaval in the 1960's.Strong black and white photos throughout." Tan spine/Black text. Size: 4to. Photography/Civil Rights/Harle.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, paperback original. Slight toning on the wrappers, a bit of rubbing, near fine. Film tie-in, novelized by Black author John Oliver Killens from the screenplay (which he co-authored), inspired by the success of Kyle Onstott's novel *Mandingo*, a lurid exploitation novel about interracial love. The 1969 film was directed by Herbert Biberman and featured Stephen Boyd, Ossie Davis, and Dionne Warwick. Uncommon.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Paperback original. Modest age-toning on the wrappers, else about fine. Film tie-in, novelized by Black author John Oliver Killens from the screenplay (which he co-authored), inspired by the success of Kyle Onstott's novel *Mandingo*, a lurid exploitation novel about interracial love. The 1969 film was directed by Herbert Biberman and featured Stephen Boyd, Ossie Davis, and Dionne Warwick. Uncommon.

black author's 1st book. yellowed tape marks on front and rear endpapers, else very good in very good dust jacket, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 1st edition.