Down Dead by Shane Stevens (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Clean and unmarked.

Paperback. first edition. 75242 very good- fine, crease paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Good (Protective cover). 1st Edition. loosening spine; discolored fore-edge; stamp and glue residue back of last page Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Pocket 75242. Very light wear along the edges of the wraps, a reading crease along the front hinge, three creases on the spine, a crease along the rear hinge, and previous owner's signature on the first page.

Hardcover. dj. First Edition. FIrst Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8.5in. 236pp. Publisher's quarter cloth boards. VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket. The book itself shows some shelf rubbing of the edges and corners, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. The dust jacket shows shelf rubbing of the extremities, a short closed tear of the back panel, several small nicks, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Quarter bound black cloth spine on purple paper-covered boards, 236pp. Writer's First Novel. Dustjacket has two small closed tears and trivial soiling on back panel. -- "One thing about living here in Harlem, you know it can't get no worse.".…

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg. 1st Edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good, dampstained, faded, shel. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Mylared. 1st Edition.

Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. FINE IN NEAR-FINE DJ WITH VERY MINOR EDGE WEAR AND ORIGINAL $4.95 PRICE.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Thus. 181 pages of fiction about two teen-age gangs in New York. The Tigers and the Playbits. The writing has an edge to it. BEWARE of the `MF' word. Read more about : Spics Eat Shit. Also : ghetto-jungle, Moose, plum crazy boy, Dealer, El Diario, Sandy Arizona, and Fat Helen. UNillustrated Cond : (Street) Photo cover White lettering. Clean. No names. Tight in binding. Light general wear. Collectible ! ! QUote (p. 64) : " I think about when I was a kid playing in those bricks. Seem like a thousand years go. But the bricks look the same they always the same you go anywhere in Harlem you find the same dirty red bricks. Paper once say ._._._. . " Size: 12mo.…

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. Author's highly praised first book, a novel set in Harlem in the 1960s - the story of King Henry, 16 years old, and he knows a lot - he knows who sells what - drugs, sex, guns and bullets. And most of all, he knows hopelessness and the one way out of it. While some authors (among them Ishmael Reed) have criticized Stevens for being a white man writing about black lives, his life and attitudes were complex - Stevens described the language in this book as Òthe language of the people who live it. So that the reader may become a participant and not just a spectator. It is a language of pain, or despair and neglect - yes, and of hope as well.Ó Stevens grew up in largely black neighborhoods, of HellÕs Kitchen and then Harlem, and he wrote about what he knew. Stephen KIng commented that Stevens produced "three of the finest novels ever written about the dark side of the American Dream." 236 pp. Near fine in very good dust jacket (short closed tear to fold of dj, other minor edgewear, crease on front flap).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Authors First novel. Binding tight. Pages clean and without tears. Some age related browning to pages. Dust jacket has shelf wear, chips to the edges, is in protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. First book by the enigmatic Stevens, a gritty crime novel about a Harlem gang in the early 1960's. Jacket art by S. A. Summit. Fine in fine dustjacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A fine, bright copy; dj price-clipped, edges not quite crisp.

8°, 181 S., Rundumrotschnitt, Text: englisch, farbig illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), untere Ecke des Vorderdeckels mit Knickspur, Rückdeckel am Seitenschnitt minimal bestoßen, Einbandkanten an wenigen Stellen leicht beschabt, sonst schönes, sauberes Exemplar Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend ggü. Musterschule) möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main (Nordend, close to Musterschule) is possible. It saves the shipping costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition of the author's first book. Octavo, 1/4 black cloth over magenta boards, with white lettering. Crime novel about a sixteen year old gang leader in Harlem. Near fine with one small hole on front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Sharp copy with a little page edge soil top edge and soiling to jacket. Bright and attractive.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition, Author's First Book. Large Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket, brown pastedowns and free end papers. Very good, minor wear and minor stains to dust jacket, light abrasions to bottom of rear cover.

First edition. Octavo, Hardcover. Author's first book. Fine in near fine dust jacket, light rubbing to corners and edges. (6537).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition (same 1966 date on title/copyright page)-This is NOT an ex-library book and it is NOT a book club edition-(VG/VG+)-Binding is red hardcover with black spine; binding and text are neat, clean and solid, VG or better. Just slightest bend to boards, some rubbing of white spine titles and previous owner name neatly done top front free page. Printed/illustrated dust jacket HAS price; very neat, clean and bright, VG+ or better in Brodart plastic. Just light/minor edgewear. There are NO rips, tears or missing pieces. Overall an EXCELLENT collector's copy of the fairly UNCOMMON 1ST BOOK written by SHANE STEVENS."King Henry has lived in HARLEM all his life. He is 16 and he KNOWS a great deal--about his own TURF and the WORLD in general. School is MEANINGLESS to him, except as a place to STAY AWAY from. What can he learn from "TEACH"? He knows how to STAY ALIVE, how to COOL IT with the HEADBREAKERS, how to make A DOLLAR if he has to. He knows who SELLS what to whom--SEX or DRUGS, a bullet or a stick of fire. Most of all he knows HOPELESSNESS and the ONE WAY out of it.Here is an UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE in American fiction by a writer of UNCOMMON POWER." 236 pages. Overall an EXCELLENT collector's copy of the fairly UNCOMMON 1ST BOOK written by SHANE STEVENS. ($160).…

Cloth & Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine in Plastic Cover. First Edition. A handsome First Edition of Shane Stevens' First Book. In Near Fine pink and black cloth & boards, the book is clean with toning to the pages. The Near Fine dustjacket is complete with the original price ($4.95) with light soiling prior to being given the protective plastic cover. In the afterword of "The Dark Half," Stephen King praises Stevens' handling of "perfect evil" and nods to Stevens' novel "Dead City" by borrowing the name 'Alexis Machine.' Though a mysterious figure who disliked interviews, Stevens spoke with Warren Bower in 1968 about the stark realities marginalized youth faced living in Harlem. Bower described reading "Go Down Dead" as a "harrowing experience-- to live that life as thoroughly as one does reading this book." His serial killer novel "By Reason of Insanity" is often cited as setting the genre standard for later writers like Thomas Harris, John Sanford and Steve Thayer.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition. Close to fine in fine dust jacket. (Light foxing at top edge. ) Author's FIRST book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 236 pages. First edition, first printing. His first novel about a sixteen-year-old man-boy and leader of The Playboys, a Harlem gang of the early sixties. Dust jacket art by S. A. Summit. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Excellent. 1st Edition, William Morrow & Co., New York, 1966, Hardcover with dust jacket, Excellent condition.

1 vols. 8vo. dj. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloith and boards. Fine in fine dust jacket.