Reddix Jacob (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974. First edition. xi, 238pp; b&w frontis and plates; index. Blue cloth; dust jacket. Light toning to endpapers, else about fine in a price-clipped jacket with mild rubbing at spine ends. With an inscription signed "Shirley" on the title page (see note below). Uncommon memoir detailing the life and career of Black American educator Jacob L. Reddix (1897-1973), who worked at the Farm Security Administration during the 1930s, and served from 1940 to 1967 as the president of Mississippi Negro Training School (now Jackson State University). This copy warmly inscribed and dated in 1989 we surmise by Reddix's daughter, Shirley Reddix Vanderpool, one of the book's dedicatees: "To Peggi: . As you embark upon your story in relation to your times! Shall treasure your visit with me and look forward to many more pleasant times together!".

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Hardcover, 238 pp. INSCRIBED by Daisy Shirley Reddix, wife of Jacob Reddix and his daughter Shirley Reddix Vanderpool to Juliet Dodd Blackburn Beamon, grandughter of John Wesley Dobbs, and early leader in the African American community in Atlanta. Ms. Beamon was also a first cousin to Maynard Jackson, the first black mayor of Atllanta. Also laid in is an autograph party program for the event at which this book was signed on October 27, 1974. Ms. Beamon has inked her initials JBB on the bottom page edges, several pages with a few sentences underlined, still a very good copy in tight binding and in a very good dust jacket (a couple closed edge tears and few minor spots which are rubbed). Now protected in an archival cover.

Condition: Fair. INSCRIBED! Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1974. 1st edition. Sm 4to hardcover. Blue cloth with black spine lettering. xi+238pp. Illustrations. Inscribed by the author's wife, Daisy S. Reddix, "On behlaf of my late husband," on title page. Jackson State University Autograph Party program laid in. Good book. No dust jacket. Foxing and soiling to covers and page edges. (African Americans, Education) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 238pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Near fine with an abrasion on the front free endpaper and slightly bumped corners in a near fine dust jacket with a short tear and very light wear. Memoir of educator Jacob L. Reddix, first president of Mississippi Negro Training School (now Jackson State University).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Owner personalization on title page. Shelf wear on front panel.