Roi Ottley (143 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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

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

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).

hardcover. Condition: ACCEPTABLE. Dust Jacket Condition: NONE. 1st edition; Ex-library - stickers, stamps, card pocket, date loaned sheet, writing; 234 pages with small stains pencil underlining; stains on outer edges of textblock; front hinge is slightly cracked; cover is sturdy but with stains, corner and edge wear, abrasions along spine, and fraying at ends of spine; no dj.

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. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. John O'hara Cosgrave (illustrator). 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.

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

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.

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. 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.

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: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. A LIFE-IN-AMERICA PRIZE BOOK, CLEAN COPY.

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++. John O'Hara Cosgrave, II (illustrator). 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. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

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. First edition. Binding very slightly cocked with modest wear and a faintly tanned spine, a nice about near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. A Life-in-America Prize book.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 278 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter beige cloth with black and red lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Deborah Comstock of Boston and Jeff Kirby of Harlem are a pair of skin-crossed lovers in this skin-deep study of an interracial marriage which cracks up. The dust jacket calls it ""a novel of passion, conflict, frustration and fulfillment,"" which is surely one of the most accommodating statements in years. Shortly before his death, Ottley completed the first draft; some time later his wife, ""with the assistance of the publishers, completed the editorial work by fitting together and selecting from the various versions."" For the most part, the style is hopelessly journalistic. The plot, set in New York on the eve of the Second World War, follows the skittery disintegration of high-minded Deborah who is unable to cope either with her Juilliard educated husband or the ritual hostilities of both the white and Negro worlds. In the end, she lights out for a sleazy Cuban death, while Jeff, in the novel's coda, finds peace of mind years later with a girl of his own race. Condition: Jacket fold over edge lightly rubbed, spine heal gently rubbed, light soiling to back wrapper else very good to fine in a better than very good jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. viii+340 pages with bibliography and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with red and black lettering to spine and cover within black and red label in original jacket. First edition. Roi Ottley was an American journalist and writer. Although largely forgotten today, he was among the most famous African American correspondents in the United States during the mid-20th century. Condition: Some soiling, spine head chipped, previous owner's name on front end paper, corners bumped. Jacket price clipped, corners, edges and spine else about very good in a good jacket.

Condition: New.