Millen Gilmore (12 results)

Paperback. first PB. 59, very good -fine, , reading crease (INTERRACIAL NOVEL), paperback,

Softcover. Condition: Good. PB Giant. G59. 238, [2] p. 16.5 cm. Paperback. Crease in bottom front corner. Some tears to top corners. Pages browned. John Henry was born to trouble - women trouble! First published in 1930. Complete and unabridged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. (no dust jacket) [moderate wear to corners, light bumping to several; spine cloth a little faded and spine lettering mostly rubbed away; front endpaper removed with consequent cracking of front hinge; vintage bookseller's label (The Satyr Book Shop, Hollywood) on rear pastedown]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the half-title page. "The story of John Henry, the negro vagabond, son of a mulatto and a white man." The pages of the book "teem with elemental and casual passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of old Beale Street, the sophisticated life of a decadent household in Hollywood." (Quoted from the dust jacket, not present on this copy.) The Hollywood reference is a little misleading; although the last part of the novel takes place in Los Angeles, there are only a few offhand references to anything relating to the movie business. (John Henry becomes the chauffeur and then the lover of a Beverly Hills woman whose husband is in banking and real estate; there's an interesting passage where the lady orders John to drive her to a nightclub on Central Avenue.) The author, a native of Memphis (where most of the novel's action takes place), was a newspaperman for the Los Angeles Herald and Express; he also reportedly had a brief fling at screenwriting, but that doesn't seem to have resulted in any credits. A curious L.A. newspaper item from 1931 stated that he had "retired from motion-picture writing and has gone into hiding in order to finish his new novel [which] will not be another Negro novel but will deal with a California figure in a California background." As nearly as I can determine, this second book was never completed or published. Millen died in 1937 from burns suffered in a fire started when he fell asleep with a lighted cigarette in his hand. Signed by Author.

(Categ. Letteratura straniera) - (In 8.vo cm. 19x24,5) - (Legatura : Br. ed. figurata) - (Ed. : prima italiana) - (pp. 112) - (Collana : I romanzi della Palma - n. 8) Testo su due colonne, ill.ni di Giorgio Dabovich. Trad. Farcito de Vinea Ottavio. piccole mende al dorso.

hardcover. Condition: Molto buono (Very Good). Traduzione di Ottavio Farcito De Vinea. Illustrazioni a colori di Giorgio Dabovich . 8vo. pp. 112. . Molto buono (Very Good). . Pubblicazione mensile. Anno I - Dicembre 1932. . Prima collana economica della Mondadori ad alta tiratura e prezzi contenuti distribuita mensilmente nelle edicole. I testi pubblicati in questa ''collana di romanzi d'ogni Paese'' furono scelti da un'apposita commissione formata da Fernando Palazzi, Enrico Piceni, Lavinia Mazzucchetti, Cesare Giardini, Giacomo Prampolini ed il giovane Emilio Ceretti. I romanzi che avevano toni tragici o comici, delicati o scabrosi, erano divisi in due categorie segnalate da un contrasseggno colorato in copertina: quello blu indicava che l'opera poteva andare nelle mani di tutti, al contrario di quelli con il contrassegno rosso Pubblicazione mensile. Anno I - Dicembre 1932. Book.

Brossura. Condition: buono. prima edizione. Gilmore Millen, Un negro irresistibile, Mondadori, Verona, 1932. Prima edizione. Pagine 112. Collana I romanzi della Palma n. 8. Corredato da alcune illustrazioni a colori f.t. Volume in buono stato con abrasioni e bruniture alla brossura e gore al frontespizio.

First Edition. First edition. Credited by music historian Elijah Wald with having "the first printed description of a Mississippi juke joint" ("The Blue Blues," Oxford American, Issue 75, Winter 2011). The story of a "Negro vagabond," John Henry, teeming with "passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old Beale Street [and] sophisticated life of a decadent household in Hollywood"-from the publisher's jacket blurb (before it devolves into racist stereotypes). Written by a White journalist who spent his childhood and early adulthood on his family's plantation in Mississippi and, later, his own in Arkansas, where he worked, lived and, by his own account, spent at least some of his free time among the Black workers there. "Here is a novel from the lower depths, but fearlessly and powerfully written; and through it gleams the truth about whites and blacks in the South, certain aspects of which no writer has hitherto dared to show."-James Weldon Johnson. 8vo brown cloth stamped in orange and red; top and fore edges red; 299 pages. Near fine with bookseller ticket of J. W. Robinson Co., Los Angeles, at rear. Lacking dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. A very close to fine book in a very good+ dust jacket with a sunned spine with small chips and small tears and creases along the book's edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 299 pp.

Second Printing. Wenck dustjacket art. African-American themed novel by this white author and southern newspaperman concerning John Henry. "the Negro vagabond, son of a mulatto and a white man." The dustjacket copy continues to state: "In him is the urge of the wanderer.new women loved and then forgotten. Only one woman is able to hold him for any length of time and after their marriage even she must give way to John Henry's burning desire for adventure. The pages of Sweet Man teem with elemental and casual passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old Beale Street, the sophisticated life of a decadent household in Hollywood." Dialect speech is made use of in the novel. Very Good, some light signs of dampstain at fore edge of covers, in Good dustjacket, vertical split at spine, lacks lower two inches of spine.

Second Printing. Wenck dustjacket art. African-American themed novel by this white author and southern newspaperman concerning John Henry. "the Negro vagabond, son of a mulatto and a white man." The dustjacket copy continues to state: "In him is the urge of the wanderer.new women loved and then forgotten. Only one woman is able to hold him for any length of time and after their marriage even she must give way to John Henry's burning desire for adventure. The pages of Sweet Man teem with elemental and casual passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old Beale Street, the sophisticated life of a decadent household in Hollywood." Dialect speech is made use of in the novel. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few tiny edge chips, spine colors moderately faded.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Credited by music historian Elijah Wald with having "the first printed description of a Mississippi juke joint" ("The Blue Blues," Oxford American, Issue 75, Winter 2011). INSCRIBED BY MILLEN on front endpaper, "Inscribed for/ my friend George Woodruff/ with sincere personal regards/ Gilmore Millen/ Los Angeles/ June 11, 1930." The story of a "Negro vagabond," John Henry, teeming with "passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old Beale Street [and] sophisticated life of a decadent household in Hollywood"-from the publisher's jacket blurb (before it devolves into racist stereotypes). Written by a White journalist who spent his childhood and early adulthood on his family's plantation in Mississippi and, later, his own in Arkansas, where he worked, lived and, by his own account, spent at least some of his free time among the Black workers there. "Here is a novel from the lower depths, but fearlessly and powerfully written; and through it gleams the truth about whites and blacks in the South, certain aspects of which no writer has hitherto dared to show."-James Weldon Johnson. About very good with spine sunned but still readable; in a good, supplied (from another copy) dust jacket with shallow chipping to spine ends and corners. Signed.

First Edition. Wenck dustjacket art. African-American themed novel by this white author and southern newspaperman concerning John Henry."the Negro vagabond, son of a mulatto and a white man." The dustjacket copy continues to state: "In him is the urge of the wanderer.new women loved and then forgotten. Only one woman is able to hold him for any length of time and after their marriage even she must give way to John Henry's burning desire for adventure. The pages of Sweet Man teem with elemental and casual passion, love, hate, murder, a horrible lynching, the racy life of the old Beale Street, the sophisticated life of a decadent household in Hollywood." Dialect speech is made use of in the novel. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest wear and rubbing to edges and spine ends, unobtrusive squares of paper tape affixed to verso of jacket at spine and flap corners, small chip at mid front spine edge mended with scotch tape.