Robert Portune (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition stated, What happens when a Negro Community rises in Anger, bound in hard boards, some upper right edge staining on front board, only a few outer edge spots on a few pages, wrapped in a very good dust jacket in protective mylar. A good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Curious and compelling novel about an old guy, turning his back on a world gone wrong, who convinces himself that aliens from Mars are about to arrive to sort out humanity. So he sits out on his front lawn to wait for them. Pretty soon other people get involved - local rubberneckers, the Air Force, journalists, city officials, etc. and this non-event turns first into a circus and ultimately into a dangerous mob. (And just because the words "Martians" and "flying saucers" are mentioned, doesn't make this a science-fiction novel!) Slightly dusty on edges, but a near fine copy in a very good, slightly rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket, browned on spine and with the price crossed out with a pen. The jacket carries a rather good line drawing, part of which is repeated as a blocked illustration on the front board, but this artwork goes uncredited. Nice copy of an interesting piece of 50's fiction. And no mention of an apology to Ernest Hemingway for the title!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. DJ worn, browned on spine. ; DJ wrapped in mylar.

Condition: Good. 1958. First Published. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition.

Condition: Very Good. Doubleday and Company New York 1960 8vo. 356 pages. yellow and black cloth boards. previous owner bookplate to ffep. binding tight.

Hard Cover. First Edition. Stated first edition, very good in a very good dust jacket. Black cloth spine over yellow cloth boards. Light shelfwear to book; a little soiling to page edges. The jacket has slight wear at spine ends, edges, and corners; light rubbing to folds. "What happens when a Negro community rises in anger.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. 8vo. Bump to spine. Marks to boards. Slight discolouration to feps. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dj. Illustrated by (dj painting) Tom Dunn (illustrator). First Edition. [minor shelfwear only to book; the jacket has a few tiny nicks at the base of the spine, modest soiling to the rear panel]. Novel set in an unnamed northern U.S. city, in which the shooting of a black man by police prompts "an investigation of the whole history of Negro-police relations" in the city. Both the topic and the date of publication mark the book as presaging some of the urban racial tensions and unrest of the 1960s, and so it's a bit of a shock to flip it over and discover that the author was a crew-cut, bow-tied white math teacher in Cincinnati. This was the author's second (and last) published novel, although an OCLC search turns up two additional entries that seem to reflect a bit on this one: (1) his Ph.D thesis for the University of Cincinnati, in 1965, entitled "An Analysis of the Attitudes of Junior High School Pupils Toward Police Officers; applied to the preparation of a work of juvenile fiction"; and (2) a 1971 book called "Changing Adolescent Attitudes Toward Police; a practical sourcebook for schools and police departments.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The W.H. Anderson Company, Cincinnati, OH. 1971. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, but does have some ink underlining, red checks, and pencil paragraph stars; F/O names on the front pastedown. Volume Four of the Police Text Series. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear; several dogeared pages. No DJ. Black cloth boards and spine with white lettering in orange shadowboxes on the spine and front board. 273 pp 8vo. This book makes not of the change in moral standards of the youth of America, the rise of youthful violence, and an increasing disrespect toward police. This book is designed for the age 12-16 youth to be engaged in tis model program for arriving at better youth-police relations before they reach the age of overt activism. A clean very presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition Stated. Original yellow cloth backed in brown cloth on boards. Seventeen-year-old black man cares for blind, white ex-soldier and turns away from his own race. Author's second novel. 356 pp. No writing or damage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Slight spotting on the page edges else near fine in a very good dust jacket with abrasions, wear on the edges, and rubbing on the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Stated First Edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Very clean bright yellow cloth boards with black cloth spine, yellow lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 356 pages. Clean jacket (very slight hint of soiling to rear panel) is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; jacket painting by Tom Dunn; photo and bio of author on rear panel; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An irate black community forces an investigation of the whole history of Negro-police relations in a northern U.S. City after a Black man is shot and killed while trying to rob a streetwalker. Although written in 1960, this is a timely hard-hitting novel about issues that have yet to be resolved.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A first Printing of the First Edition that has discoloration to the edges in Near Fine condition, housed in a Fine dust-jacket; This book is about a young boy named Vinnie who moves to a new town and has to start over. He meets a group of friends and they help him learn about the town and the people in it. Vinnie also learns how to be a responsible person and to be a good friend.; 8vo; 356 pages.