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Published by The Viking Press; 1st Edition (October 21, 1974), 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. Later Edition. ISBN 0670305693. Hardback. Second Printing of the 1974 First Edition as stated on the copyright page. Previous owners bookplate on the front free endpaper, Otherwise a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. Dustjacket is in Very Good condition with slight edgewear. $7.95 original price is still present and unclipped on the front dustjacket flap. We have placed the dustjacket in a Brodart clear plastic protective cover and it looks much better than described. No Signature.
Published by Viking Books, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85.
Published by The Viking Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Viking Press October 1974 Binding: Hardcover.
Published by Viking, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Row By Row Bookshop, Sugar Grove, NC, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed. A Good copy of the second hardcover printing, in an attractive Good dust jacket with a tear at the bottom edge of the rear panel. The jacket is not price-clipped. There is foxing/tanning to the yellow spine cloth. Nicely inscribed and signed by the author:" For John Squire/Firstly, thanks for helping me/ship that suit of armor; and, secondly,/with my best wishes for the success of/The Needle Project- may it make millions/of dollars./Chuck Johnson/3/2/80". Inscribed by Author(s). Book.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Book First Edition
Hardcover. 196p. First edition. Stray ink mark to lower page edges at heel of spine, another to top corner of front free endpaper. Slight wear to dust jacket at folds. The Evanston, Illinois born writer and illustrator's first novel.
Published by Viking, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Signed by Author. Light shelf wear, pages tanned; a good sound binding. Signed by Johnson on the title page, dated 1991. The jacket has some wear and tear, creasing; price intact. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0670305693. ISBN/EAN: 9780670305698. Inventory No: 205353.
Published by Atheneum, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Book Signed
Paperback. 196p. wraps, very good condition, inscribed & signed "For Anthony Platt, With thanks & appreciation, Charles Johnson, 9/18/91," first published in 1974.
Published by Viking, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second edition. Very good plus Hardcover has no dustwrapper has remainder mark, bumped corners. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Kenneth A. Himber, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Almost Like New. First Edition. (First Edition) Book is a clean tight unmarked copy. Top page edges show slight oxidized dust spotting. (Foxing).
Published by Viking, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Daniel Montemarano, Newfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st Edition/2nd Printing (Dec. 1974). Hint of foxing to page edges. DJ rubbed with tear at middle spine with tape repairs. $7.95 price present on DJ flap. SIGNED by author on a bookplate on front end page (signature only). Author's first novel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.
Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 196 pages, orange and yellow cloth covers, bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's first book. Record # 406651.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Condition: very good, very good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 196, publisher's ephemera laid in, minor edge soiling The tale of a girl who leaves her home and goes to the city in search of "the good thing" after her parents die. The novel is rife with folklore and mysticism, grounded in everyday life.
Published by The Viking Press 1974, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Book
ISBN 0-670-30569-3. Hardback. Second Printing. Very good condition book in a Very good condition dustjacket. Tight, sound, unmarked copy.
Published by Viking, NY, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Book
First edn, 2nd printing. 8vo, pp. 196. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in scuffed dj. A novel.
Published by The Viking Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: Good. SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item. book.
Published by Viking, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Laura Books, Georgetown, SA, Australia
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. library marks endpapers, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: slight edge wear, library sticker spine Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.
Published by Viking Press, New Yoerk, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. 196pp.Beige boards, black spine with shimmering purple lettering on the spine. Except for a touch of wear to the extremities, and foxing spots on the tope edge, a like new copy.Unclipped pictorial jacket has a very light streak on the rear panel. "Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing." Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim's progress that takes Faith from the magic and mysticism of the rural South to the promises and perils of modern-day Chicago. It is an odyssey that propels Faith from the degradation of prostitution, drugs, and drink into a faceless middle-class reality, and finally into a searing tragedy that ironically leads to the discovery of the real Good Thing." Size: Octavo.
Published by The Viking Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Small nick to top edge of lower jacket cover (at spine edge); slight rubbing to jacket; slight internal browning to edges. [8], 196 pages. Later issue ('Second Printing, December 1974' -- title page verso) of the first novel by the noted Black American cartoonist and educator (creator of 'Charlie's Pad'); set in Hatten County, Georgia, and concerning various forms of 'magical realism'. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Johnson in black ink on front free endpaper, April 19, 1979: 'Dick, I must apologize, deeply, for missing your class last week -- my students kept me pinned in the office until it was too late -- but I wanted to give you a copy of my novel . in thanks for your friendship, your support, and the delightful time I had on your program, 'Postscript to Roots'. Many thanks, Chas. Johnson, 19/4/79'. The reference is to Johnson's participation as a panelist on the University of Washington's 'University Conversations: Postscript to Roots' in the summer of 1978. Nice, tight copy with a superb presentation inscription.
Published by The Viking Press, New York:, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Flips Fine Books, Greensboro, GA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
hardcover. Condition: fine copy in fine dust jacket. [First Edition]. black cloth w/ cream paper boards; lettering in purple-gilt on spine; cream endpapers; 196 pgs; illus dust jacket, price-clipped, author photo by Jill Krementz on rear flap; author's first book. quotes by John Gardner & George P.Elliott on back cover. jacket design by Abner Graboff.
Published by The Viking Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.95.
Published by Viking Press, NY, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: The Wild Muse, Granville, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hard. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Author's first novel. Published NY: Viking, 1974, first printing. 8vo. Black cloth with pink metallic titles and yellow paper covered boards. Tiny minor surface skin to the paper on front and rear boards, hairline trace of sun fade to the cloth at crown, else fine in near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear. Size: 8vo.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 196 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Abner Graboff. His first novel. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with just the slightest of edge wear. A beautiful copy!.
Published by Viking Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
hardcover. 1st edition. New York. 1974. Viking Press. 1st Edition. A Few Grease Pen Marks On Top Corner Of Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670305693. 196 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Abner Graboff. Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature America Black. FROM THE PUBLISHER - It is time to tell you of Faith and the Good Thing.' Faith Cross, only child of Lavidia and the late Todd Cross (a storyteller who lived in a world full of magic and fabulous fictions) of Hatten County, Georgia, saved at a prayer meeting at the age of twelve, is a beauty, a brown-sugared soul sister turning eighteen on the day her mother breathes her last breath. Momma,' Faith says, I called for Reverend Brown. ' Lavidia says, Girl, you get yourself a good thing,' then gulps once and dies. Faith doesn't know what that means, but she hungers to find out. She wants - needs - that Good Thing on earth, that really Good Thing. Can anyone show her the way? The Swamp Woman, the werewitch who dwells in the bogs, tells her she's a Number One - needs direction to avoid disaster. Faith, she says, should leave the Southern backwoods and head for Chicago. Life on earth without the Good Thing, she tells Faith, is marked by famine and misery. It is not much to go on, but it propels sweet Faith Cross away from her rural Dixie and her lost love Alpha Omega Holmes to the lower depths of the Windy City, and from a soulless middle-class existence to the interior of her memories and her hopes. Here, in this quest for the Good Thing, we have the human adventure. We also have the story of Faith Cross - a metaphysical yarn spun from pure feeling; from sex, love, suffering, beauty, and truth. Set to the music of the spheres, haunted by a philosopher's spirit, conjured up from dreams and disasters, the adventure-strewn path to Faith's Good Thing lies before us and powerfully beckons us to follow. Trust Charles Johnson, a storyteller with a sorcerer's touch, to realize the moment of truth. inventory #9826 A Few Grease Pen Marks On Top Corner Of Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 196 pages. First edition, first printing. His first novel. Dust jacket design by Abner Graboff. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Ira Joel Haber - Cinemage Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Boards & Cloth with Dustjacket. First edition/2nd Printing. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED TO THE LATE FAMOUS THEATRE DIRECTOR ALAN SCHNEIDER WHO DIRECTED MANY OF EDWARD ALBEE'S PLAYS INCLUDING WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? AND THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN PREMIERE OF WAITING FOR GODOT. Johnson's first novel. Scarce. Small crease to the front flap, light fading to the lettering on the spine panel of dj. and a tiny chip also to the top of spine panel & minute soiling to the top edge. Near fine/vg+. Book.
Published by VIKING. NY 1974, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Close to fine in a fine dj. (Trifle bit of soiling on bottom edge. Mild stain on one page in text) Author's FIRST novel.
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 196 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Abner Graboff. His first novel. Signed on 11-17-98 by Johnson on the title page. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Seller: Ed Smith Books, ABAA, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Second printing. Author's first book. This copy bears the author's 7-line inscription on the front endpaper dated 19/4/79. "Dick / I must apologize, deeply, for missing your / class last week --- my students kept me pinned in the / office until it was too late --- but I wanted to give you / a copy of my novel, partly because I hope you'll / enjoy it, and partly in thanks for your friendship / your support, and the delightful time I had on / your program, "Postscript to Roots." / Many thanks / Charles Johnson / 19/4/79." Two printed sheets laid in, on 'Charles Johnson' letterhead. Page 2, highlighted with a pencil mark, is the program he mentions above in his inscription, "Panelist on "University Conversations: Postscript to Roots" Summer 1978. A fine copy in yellow and orange cloth in a very good dust jacket with a small V chip to the top of the rear panel of the dust jacket.
Published by NY: VIKING. 1974, 1974
ISBN 10: 0670305693ISBN 13: 9780670305698
Book First Edition Signed
Condition: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED & dated in 1990 by Charles Johnson on the title page. About fine in a close to fine dj. (Light foxing at top edge. Orange hue on spine of dj. has discolored to yellow) Author's FIRST novel. (GC).