Home Social Essays by Jones Leroi, First Edition (14 results)

Condition: Good. 1968. First Edition. 252 pages. Dust jacket over paper covered boards. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild foxing. Notable tanning to panel edges. Mild rubbing and marking all over. Sticker to rear.

FIRST EDITION, ex-library, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 252pp. +40 pages with margin [ ]s. Previously owned by College Professor. Orange lining pages. Black cloth spine with white title and grey boards. Poor Pictorial Dust Jacket badly worn, tears, and rips. Jacket photo by Robert Adelman. Jacket design by Cynthia Basil. Imporant essays.

FIRST EDITION. Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (scruffy) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs0.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards - gently edge-worn/rubbed w/ spine lettering partially rubbed away; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped ($4.00) dust jacket moderately edge-worn/rubbed w/ mild chipping present; Previous owner name inked at upper rear jacket panel; Jacket housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; A Good Plus copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 252. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered white on spine. Front panel of jacket designed by Cynthia Basil. Neat name on front endpaper, otherwise very good indeed in complete, clean, very good dust jacket, with some rubbing at edges.

Br. c/sovr., cm14.5x22.5, pp 220 (4). Coll. I fatti e le idee. Saggi e biografie #173. Trad. Laura Lovisetti Fuà. Prima edizione italiana. Sovraccoperta (ora protetta da foglio trasparente rimovibile) discreta, con strappi, piccole mancanze e abrasioni, sgualciture; carte ingiallite ma interno completo, integro e intatto.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed First Edition of this early collection of essays by dramatist, poet, and activist Amiri Bakara (LeRoi Jones). Bakara was one of the leading and most provocative Black writers of the 1960s and 1970s. Inscribed by Amiri Bakara to a a previous owner on the title page. 252 pages. Has a previous owner name inked on the front endpaper and some fading on the top edge of the covers. The dust jacket has creasing at the top of the front cover and both edges of the spine. Signed by Author(s).

8vo. pp 252. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Front panel of jacket designed by Cynthia Basil. Very good plus in very good dust jacket, with very slight rubbing at edges. Decent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (pc). First Edition. About fine in price-clipped else near fine dustjacket (mylar protected). First printing/first edition. 252 pp. An attractive, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. 1st. Some light wear. In a Fair jacket. Very serviceable copy!

first british edition, 1968. this "literary land mine"--a collection of essays by amiri baraka (leroi jones)--offers an powerful ideological autobiography of the author during a critical period in american history. written over five years in the 1960s, the two dozen essays reflect baraka's evolving political consciousness in response to the cuban revolution, the birmingham bombings, the monroe defense movement, the harlem riots, and the assassination of malcolm x. documents baraka's transformation from an outsider to one of the leading voices of the black power movement. london: macgibbon & knee. 252 pages. hardcover. bound in cloth-covered boards. book condition: gentle rubbing to foot of block. fine. jacket condition: closed-tear to back-panel, small closed-tear to front panel, imperceptible soiling to back panel. very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First English edition. Very slight stain on the front pastedown else fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 252 pages; VG/VG-; grey spine with title in white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$4.00', mild rubbing and wear to extremities; one piece of tape each to interior of head and tail of spine; signed "A. Baraka 97" on half title; text block lightly age-toned; scarce signed; CX consignment; shelved case 1 1/2. 1349532. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.