Ottley Roi (154 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Acceptable. Item in acceptable condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing. Very good in a very good dustacket. Not priceclipped and no markings. (box 96).

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Tears to jacket. Owner's name stamped on front end page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 364 Pages With Bibliography And Index In Rear; 23 Chapters; Foreword In Front. Pages Tight; Slight Yellowing; Page Edges Cut Roughly And Somewhat Darkened. Moderate Page Wear. No Markings; Illustration Of City Apartment Building On Front And Back Inside Covers. Rubbed Orange Hard Covers With Black Lettering On Front And Spine. Moderate Shelf Wear; Slight Wear On Edges And Corners; Story Of Negro Life In Harlem Shared As The Germs Of Negro Thought And Action Isolated, Examined, And Held Up To Full Glare To Reflect Black America. Rare Vintage Copy. John O'hara Cosgrave (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. This is an uncommon vintage paperback about Black life in Harlem in the first half of the 20th century.

Hard Cover. Jacket. First Printing (stated). About fine in very good, slightly rubbed dust jacket, with small dampstain on front flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Brown col. w. black lettering & lines. Illus. endpapers. Illus. Vi, 364pp. incl. index. . A Life-in-America Prize Book.

Condition: good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a VG hardcover first British edition, gray cloth binding with maroon lettering, no DJ. 340 pages with index. Ottley worked as a journalist for the Amsterdam News from 1931 to 1937. In 1937, Ottley joined the New York City Writers' Project as an editor.] In 1943 he published New World A-Coming: Inside Black America, which described life for African Americans in Harlem, New York City, in the 1920s and 1930s. The book incorporated Ottley's reports from the New York City Writer's Project. It won the Life in America prize, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a Peabody Award, and was adapted for a series of radio broadcasts.] Also the book became the basis for the anthology radio program broadcast on WMAC in New York. Ottley became the publicity director of national CIO War Relief Committee in 1943. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Army in 1944.[2] During World War II, Ottley reported from Europe for Liberty Magazine, PM, and the Pittsburgh Courier, becoming the first African American war correspondent to cover the war for major newspapers.] Ottley covered events such as the Normandy Invasion, the hanging of Mussolini, and the Arab-French conflict in Syria. He also interviewed important personalities like Governor Talmadge of Georgia, and Samuel Green, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. Ottley also became the first African American to interview a pope when he met with Pope Pius XII in 1945. From Wikipedia, Yes I do contribute to them. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Name and place written on front free endpaper. Dust jacket has many pieces missing from edges, rubbing, wear, in a protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good minus. First Edition. Scribner's, 1948; stated first edition with 'A' on copyright page, no additional printings indicated; viii, 340pp. Gray cloth with stamped pink and black titling/decoration on front board and spine. In G/G- dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; some rubbing/wear to corners and spine ends, else shelfwear is very mild, titling remains bright and bold; text very good throughout; small damp-stain on bottom edge of page block near spine, does not appear to affect interior pages. Moderate amount of wear, several small chips and closed tears at edges of unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket; closed tear running about halfway up spine panel from bottom edge; mild toning to edges, small sticker ghost on front panel; jacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book and contents are tight. Book has some scuffing and a bumped corner. A partial dust jacket is laid-in the rear.

soft. Condition: See Pic.

First UK printing. Very good in gray cloth covered boards with red lettering/no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. BOARDS MARKED CONTENTS GOOD.

First Edition. 364p, 5.5x8 inch red cloth boards, illustrated text; toning throughout textblock, and roughly opened pages near rear, otherwise in very good condition, with library bookplate with withdrawn stamp inside front cover. Life-in-America Prize Book. New York born African American journalist including seven years covering Harlem for the Amsterdam Star News.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First trade edition. Clean, unmarked copy. DJ has nominal edge wear o/w in VG condition. Handsome copy. TM.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1965. Hardcover, 278 pp. 1st printing (stated). African-American novelist's first book, published posthumously. Very good overall. Dust jacket has edge wear and small chips. Jacket is in a mylar sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Ex-library hardbound without dust jacket. Rear free endpaper torn away. Considerable wear/fraying at top of spine. Pages unmarked.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. Very good in gray cloth covered boards with red lettering/no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good or better in very good dust jacket. Hardcover has dust jacket rubbed, chipped at spine ends, lightly faded along flap edge.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+++. Dust Jacket Condition: Good++. First Reprint Edition. vi. Bibliography. Index. 364pp. Illustrated lining papers. Russet cloth boards with title on spine and front board. Pictorial Dust Jacket slightly rubbed and chipped. Vincent L. "Roi" Ottley. 1906-1960. This book was awarded A Life-In-America Prize, the 5th such award made. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John O'Hara Cosgrave, II (illustrator). Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Shelf 1076 Text clean; book tight; paper browning; former owner name; signed by author on backside of FFEP; minor spine slant; browning and perhaps damp stain to spine strip; general wear to surface, edges and corners of covers including lightly bumped and rubbed corners; areas of rubbing to edges; dusting to top edge of paper and few very shallow dents to bottom edge; Not a book club (BC)copy. Not ex library, not a remainder smoke free. PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. , as pictured First edition with age freckles Very good condition hard cover a good/fair dust jacket, 1/3 of spine strip gone, rest of spine jacket wrinkled, chipped some light wear gently read clean pages, price present.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Foxing on the spine, very good in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, and tiny nicks and tears. The only novel by this award-winning black journalist, published posthumously.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.