Devil Finds Work by Baldwin James: First Edition (32 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First printing, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Spine ends of book are slightly pushed. The jacket has very slight edgewear, and the front flap is creased. Baldwin's opinion on the American film industry; 122 pages. $6.95 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book. A tight, square copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first printing with $6.95 flap price. Baldwin turns his practiced eye to American film and its role in the Black diaspora. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is near fine but ha a 1/2" top outer corner chip, protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover. Still a very attractive copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. First Edition. Stated first printing. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector. Pages are clean.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Red faux leather cover with lite red; , DJ not clipped ; No marks or writing, clean tight; binding; An essay on American film-making from the author's viewpoint. ; 122 pages Very Good- spine lettering binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. First printing.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 122. A fine copy in dj that has a tear at the top. A discussion of American film.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Library of America number 98. Stated first printing. Fine in green cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Housed in a fine slipcase.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A clean, unmarked book. Light wear to cover. Age-toned pages. Slightly warped text block. The glue in this perfect-bound book is over 30 years old and so the binding may be fragile. Appears to be First Edition with the number "1" present in the number line. A 1976 essay in which the author examines Hollywood cinema through the lens of race, analyzing films from Birth of a Nation through The Exorcist to explore how American movies have reflected and distorted the Black experience. Keywords: Film Criticism, Black Spectatorship, Racial Representation, Exorcist Film, In the Heat of Night, Guess Who Dinner, Birth of Nation, Hollywood Racism, African American Identity, American Cinema History, Race and Film, Essay Collection.…

First Edition. Hardcover, very good with light wear in good chipped jacket, with slight loss to rear panel. Stated first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Unclipped DJ is slightly ruffled, creases on flaps, now protected in mylar. Boards are well-bound, foxing along borders, sprinkled throughout; text is clean & quite readable.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 121pp. Maroon lining papers. Maroon boards with title on spine. Near fine Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Good only overall with some knocks to corners and some spotting to prelims. The jacket is unclipped with a nick to base of spine and maybe some spine fade.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and sun fading.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In Like Jacket.$6.95 On Flap. Stated First Printing Without Wear. Excellent Fresh Copy.

dj. First Edition. first edition, 1976. "it is a terrible thing, simply, to be trapped in one's history, and attempt, in the same motion (and in this, our life!) to accept, deny, reject, and redeem it--and, also, on whatever level, to profit from it." book-length essay that is both a memoir of baldwin's experiences watching movies and a critique of the racial politics of american cinema. baldwin analyzes iconic films such as "in the heat of the night," "guess who's coming to dinner," and "the exorcist," using them as windows into the nation's racial prejudices and self-deceptions. he challenges the assumptions embedded in these films, revealing how they both reflect and reinforce the forces that shape american society. new york: the dial press. isbn: 0803719167. hardcover. book condition: fine. jacket condition: smallest amount of creasing to flaps. unclipped [$6.95]. fine.…

Condition: Fine in near fine jacket. dj. First Edition. First edition of Baldwin's extended essay on a life in film. THE DEVIL FINDS WORK traces a captivating line from the author's first wondering childhood glimpse of Joan Crawford's straight shoulders through to his dispiriting season in Hollywood writing a doomed screenplay on the life of Malcolm X for an industry with little love for art and no use for honesty. THE DEVIL incorporates memoir, social commentary, media criticism, and the best critique yet written of THE EXORCIST, a film "not in the least concerned with damnation, an abysm far beyond the confines of its imagination, but with property, with safety, tax shelters, stocks and bonds, rising and falling markets, the continued invulnerability of a certain class of people, and the continued sanctification of a certain history," in a conclusion which gathers strength as it goes, paragraph upon paragraph on the way to its final crushing words on Americans who "should certainly know more about evil than that; if they pretend otherwise, they are lying." 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original red leatherette, spine lettered in metallic orange. In original unclipped ($6.95) glossy color pictorial dust jacket with design by Jack Ribik, photo of Baldwin by Jerry Bauer to rear panel. Red endpapers, red topstain. [6], 122 pages. Faint toning to margins and verso of jacket. Tight.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (£3.95). Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, the odd small mark, odd minor crease/rub to edges, minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, odd small mark/minor patchy browning/few spots of foxing to reverse (white side) and patchy browning/minor foxing/odd small marks/little creasing to front/back inner flaps. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with a hint of pushing to corners, the odd small scratch and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages slightly tanned. End-papers bit tanned with the odd small mark/spot of foxing. Odd small mark/minor foxing to top edge of pages. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges and bottoms. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted. …

Hardcover. dj. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Very good with bit of foxing to pages and jacket, small areas of staining to front panel of jacket, couple tiny tears to jacket, bookstore sticker to front of jacket.

First Edition; First Printing. Fine in fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 121pp. Maroon lining papers. Maroon boards with title on spine. Near fine hardcover with minor wrinkleds on cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 122pp Burgundy Lining pages. Glossy Burgundy Boards with title on spine. Pictorial Dust Jacket with ttitle and title on spine. Tiny snag in top rear dust jacket.

Cloth with dust jacket. Condition: Good. First Edition - First Printing. 122 pag - closed tear. not price-clipped.

Softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Paperback, rororo-Taschenbuch (Band-Nr. Rowohlt Das neue buch dnb 83 1000) ill. Original-Broschur. 112 Seiten, Kapitel III. heißt : wo die Früchte des Zorns lagern, abgeschlossen am 19. Juli 1975 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Keine Remittende. Deutsche Erstausgabe, veröffentlicht im Februar 1977. (Copyright 1977) Buch außen und innen sauber, keine Einträge, keine Markierungen o.ä. im Text, sofort lieferbar.…

Cloth with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition - First Printing. 122 pag - discoloration of the spine. not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dial Press. New York. 1976. 122 pages. First edition stated, first printing. Book is tight and clean. Burgundy endpapers with burgundy topstain and boards. Small dent on front board. Minor discoloration along base of front board. Original DJ with $6.95 price intact on flap. Open chip to DJ on spine. A solid, attractive copy with flaws noted.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 122pgs. Burgundy boards, Stated First printing. Superficial wear to the covers, otherwise like new. Unclipped pictorial jacket is bright with no tears or chips. in mylar sleeve. This is a book-length essay by writer James Baldwin Published in 1976, it is both a memoir of his experiences watching movies and a critique of the racial politics of American cinema. Size: Octavo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Dial Press, 1976 First edition. First printing. A little toning only to the dust jacket verso, otherwise a fine copy. An examination of race in American cinema, by the renowned essayist.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Dust jacket unclipped, toned, creasing at edges, closed tear to top front panel near spine approx. 1/4 inch, rear flap creased vertically. Dark red paper covered boards, copper lettering at spine. Previous ownership inscription (ink and pencil) at front free endpaper. 8vo, 122 pp. Very Good. A searching blend of memoir, film criticism, and cultural commentary in which Baldwin examines the ways American cinema has represented or distorted Black life and American racial politics. Baldwin lays bare the racial anxieties, hypocrisies, and illusions embedded in mainstream entertainment while examining iconic Hollywood films, including The Birth of a Nation, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 122pp. Red hardcover, title in gilt on spine. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page. Solid text block, top edge dyed red, appears unread, a fine example. In publisher's dust jacket, $6.95 retail price on front flap, a touch of shelf wear, faint toning to verso, a near fine example. First edition of The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine Book & Jacket, Signed, First Edition First Print, in protective civer A beautiful book. Signed by Author(s).