Published by Amistad Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0061651125 ISBN 13: 9780061651120
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55.
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2000
ISBN 10: 0060968850 ISBN 13: 9780060968854
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Published by Eureka Productions, 2012
ISBN 10: 0982563043 ISBN 13: 9780982563045
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85.
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Published by Back Bay Books, 1969
ISBN 10: 0316380318 ISBN 13: 9780316380317
Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Published by Book Jungle, 2007
ISBN 10: 1604243465 ISBN 13: 9781604243468
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.
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Published by Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, Columbus, Ohio, 1969
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Stiff Printed Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. 8vo. Pp. viii, 142. Bibliography. Bound in glossy, printed wraps. With the stamp of the Montgomery County Textbook Repository on the inside rear cover; slight bow to text block, else Fine. With contributions from Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, Richard Wright, Paul Dunbar, Langston Hughes, William M. Kelley, Kristin Hunter, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, et al.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1991
ISBN 10: 0060553014 ISBN 13: 9780060553012
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Amistad, New York, 1991
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fine. Cassandra J. Pappas (illustrator). First Edition. Stated first edition. Edited with an introduction by George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Includes the complete story of the MULE BONE controversy. A fine, clean, unmarked copy free of creases.
Published by Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1984
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Original grey cloth with gilt title in black box and '1' in a full number line. A groundbreaking work, now scarce and highly in demand, encompassing scholarly studies of the major writers (including Hurston and Hughes) plus a comprehensive detailed bibliography for students and collectors. Fine, clean and unmarked, this was a deaccessioned library copy with all markings professionally removed so that it looks new. Blank bookplate present.
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England / New York, New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0195070658 ISBN 13: 9780195070651
Seller: Andover Books and Antiquities, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xiv, 768 pp. LCC: 921353.
Published by Dodd, Mead, New York
ISBN 10: 0396063748 ISBN 13: 9780396063742
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
[0-396-06374-8] 1971. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 392pp. Minor rubbing on dust jacket. "Here is a powerful selection of fiction and nonfiction mirroring the Negro experience in America. The time sequence of the book extends from the midnight of slave time to now - 11 P.M. (when 'for America this may be the last opportunity she has to deal with black Americans and negotiate. Before the terrifying prospects of internal strife, armed suppression and needless destruction descend fully upon us all.' - Whitney M. Young, Jr.). The changes in black and white consciousness over the years are clearly evident in this clockwise turn of fiction and events". Contributors include James Baldwin, Claude Brown, T.R. Carskadon, Eldridge Cleaver, John Allen Davidson, Robert K. Durkee, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Rudolph Fisher, Chris Frazer, John Howard Griffin, Wayne Grover, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Julius Lester, E.P. O'Donnell, Carl Ruthven Offord, Joseph E. Pumila, Edward Rivera, William Styron, Sandra Taylor, Bob Teague, Michael Thelwell, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright. Locale: United States. (Fiction, Autobiography, Black Americans, Black Studies, Fiction, Race Relations, Short Stories).
Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1995
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Background material for the above authors in a scholarly study that includes notes and index. In a Mylar dj cover. A superb copy.
Published by Bibliotech Press, 2023
ISBN 13: 9798888303351
Seller: Buchpark, Trebbin, Germany
Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 108 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.
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Published by PL Editions Poetry, London, 1947
Seller: Blind-Horse-Books (ABAA-FABA-IOBA), DeLand, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Dark wine-red cloth with green spine titles; 7.5 inches tall; 171 pages; Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, including frontispiece of Louis Armstrong. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. Colorful dust jacket is unclipped with even age-toning and tiny loss on the spine tips. With laid-in publisher's ticket indicating a review copy. A fascinating period study of the world of jazz in the 1940s, this inaugural edition of yearly anthologies featuring articles by English and American writers on jazz seeks to establish valid criteria for appreciating the art form for the first time. Additionally, it offers critiques of individual players, aiming to provide comprehensive insights into the genre. historical pieces which trace the origins of swing from the negro workers' songs and the brass bands and small orchestras which played in the streets, the bars and the sporting houses of New Orleans, that "wide-open town" of the Nineties. An interesting feature is the section in which famous jazz musicians, among them Louis Armstrong, write about their early experiences. Historical articles within the anthology delve into the roots of swing, tracing its origins from the songs of African American laborers to the brass bands and small orchestras that frequented the streets, bars, and sporting houses of New Orleans during the vibrant era of the 1890s. Of particular note is a captivating section where renowned jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, share their personal accounts of their formative years in the jazz scene.
Published by Negro Universities Press, Westport, CT, 1970
ISBN 10: 0837130484 ISBN 13: 9780837130484
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Reprinted. Larger Octavo; pp 48; G; green spine with silver text; quarterly publication; no jacket; cloth has modest wear to exterior; some rubbing to edges; sturdy boards; slight sticker residue to spine; text block exterior edges have light wear; previous owner's name to ffep; ex-library stamped date to rear endpaper; interior clean; broken hinges, as is; illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #5. 1333982. FP New Rockville Stock.
Published by The Citadel Press, New York, 1941
First Edition
Condition: Near fine in very good jacket. Early reprint of this anthology of works by Black Americans, from the 18th-century poetry of Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century essays of Alain Locke and much in between. Charles Blockson notes that, on its publication in 1941, THE NEGRO CARAVAN was "the most important single volume of Afro-American writing ever published" (58). Its three editors assembled some of the most influential pieces by Black Americans through the 1940s, including songs, plays, narratives of enslaved people, poetry, essays, folk literature and more. Each section is accompanied by a critical introduction contextualizing the pieces in their wider genres and in Black history. THE NEGRO CARAVAN represents a major early effort at defining a canon of Black literature; this is an unusually nice copy. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original cream cloth. In original price-clipped color typographic dust jacket. Blue topstain. xviii, 1082 pages, including index. Two bookplates to front fly leaf. Jacket with chipping along edges, mostly shallow; some light staining. Book with a bit of offsetting to joints, else clean.
Published by The Dryden Press, New York, 1941
First Edition
Condition: Very good plus. First printing of this anthology of works by Black Americans, from the 18th-century poetry of Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century essays of Alain Locke and much in between. Charles Blockson notes that, on its publication in 1941, THE NEGRO CARAVAN was "the most important single volume of Afro-American writing ever published" (58). Its three editors assembled some of the most influential pieces by Black Americans through the 1940s, including songs, plays, narratives of enslaved people, poetry, essays, folk literature and more. Each section is accompanied by a critical introduction contextualizing the pieces in their wider genres and in Black history. THE NEGRO CARAVAN represents a major early effort at defining a canon of Black literature; this is an unusually nice copy. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth boards with gilt and black lettering. No dust jacket. xviii, 1082 pages, including index. Owner name in pencil to front flyleaf, "Tyler Long." Binding with mild wear, a touch of dampstaining to lower spine. Leaves with a hint of toning and occasional edgewear. Firm.
Published by Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co, London, 1934
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition, first printing. viii, 856 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in red, no headcap and edges unstained, issued without a dust jacket. Very Good+ with rubbing to cloth along edges, worn at head and tail, small bookplate to front free endpaper, a few spots of foxing to edges, vertical creases and two tiny tape mends to title page.An ambitious compilation all aspects of history and culture of the African in Africa, or the diaspora featuring contributions from an impressive array of leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Arthur A. Schomberg, W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter White, Countee Cullen and many others. A definitive work on the growth and development of Black culture of the early 20th century. One-thousand copies were originally printed, though many remained unsold and were destroyed when the warehouse they were stored in was bombed during the Blitz.