Kate Mcalpin Crady (10 results)

Cloth Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1940 First Edition, 3rd printing of 1938 original. A book of poetry by a white poet with an African-American experience theme. Former owner's inked name on front endpaper. No dustjacket. Mild sunning to spine, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy with all text clear/unmarked. From the Foreword: "Kate McAlpin Crady understands and knows Negroes as well as any person can understand and know another race than her own. She was "raised" on a Mississippi plantation with colored children as happy playmates, and with a wise old mammy who taught her to mind her manners.".and, further on."Mrs Grady knows also what became of those younger Negroes with whom she played. How they suddenly grew to sprindle-legged adolescence and were drawn into the strange emotional ways of their own race. How they got religion and made love and tended babies and toiled for the little share of life that a plantation Negro can attain. In her heart she loves the - black gals and yaller, drownded chillun, and rowdy stevedores. That is why she has written these poems about them with so much tenderness and honesty that it is almost as if the voiceless Negroes of the South themselves had spoken in her lines." 65 poems. Red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering on the front cover. 83 pages. GFC12.

Hardcover. [iv] 83p., sixth printing, maroon cloth boards with gilt titling; illustrations cloth spine is a bit toned, no dust jacket, residual bookplate on pastedown endpaper, else very good. Bad southern Negro dialect poetry. The quote on the rear cover jacket (not present) makes me reconsider J. Frank Dobie's humanity; "She knows what's in a niggerhead from de mouf up." The illustrations though technically well-done are just as infuriating.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket in very good condition. Sixth printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.

G/no DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Blanche McVeigh (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. A very good copy in a very good DJ, now protected in removable archival mylar. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #89.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. Aquatints used by permission of Blanche McVeigh. 83 very clean and tight pages. Red boards. PO name on front cover. Some scuffing with small pieces missing and an inch tear top of jacket. Jacket in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by author on front endpaper. No additional printings listed, first edition. Hard cover published in 1938. Red covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Lettering on front has faded some. Spine has faded at ends where DJ is torn. Top edges of covers have faded some. Front cover is slightly curved. There are some pencil marks in book. DJ is faded along spine, torn and creased along top edge, and torn at ends by spine. Front of DJ has a water stain and a hole in upper corner, and front and back are faded some and scuffed. Front inner flap is almost loose from rest of DJ. DJ is in acceptable condition.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 83 pages; Signed by Author.

Condition: Fine. 1938 Signed, 1st ed.; fine condition, DJ fair condition, shows marks on DJ where it was taped, tape removed, wear at corners and edges, all protected by clear Brodart cover, price-clipped.

Hardcover. 1938 edition. No other printings listed. No dust jacket. Front cover has some scuffing and staining. Ends of spine are rolled and worn, and corners are bumped and worn. Previous owner's name is on front endpaper. The page before the title page is partially loose from the binding. Binding is loose in several spots. Pages are tanned some on the edges.; 83 pages; 1938 edition. No other printings listed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Signed. SIGNED COPY; author's signature on ffep; dust jacket has chipping to edges, discoloration; DJ in Brodart; cloth is lightly rubbed on edges; marking of former owner at top of ffep; no internal markings. Book is the second collection of poems by Kate Crady and "tells of the old people sitting on the doorsteps remembering tales of yesterday while the big road is full of young folks with travelin' shoes on." Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.