Known World Novel by Jones Edward, First Edition (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Small tears on cover page.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st Amistad Edition; 1st Printing Thus. First Amistad Edition (2004) ; First Printing thus indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Fine in Wraps: flawless; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of creases to the panels. Free of creases to the backstrip. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. A handsome, like-new copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing no discernible imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8 x 5.25 x 1 inches) . Language: English. Weight: 11 ounces. Trade Paperback. Edward P. Jones (born in 1950) is an African-American novelist and short story writer. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the MacArthur Genius Grant for Fiction in 2003 for this novel. For his first book, a collection of short stories, 'Lost in the City' , he won the PEN-Hemingway award in 1992. He was also awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2003. The Known World is set in a fictional Virginia county, it's protagonist is a Black planter and slaveholder who falls under the tutelage and control of the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. This is the author's first novel. . The depth of detail of the plantation in Manchester County has been compared with Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 388 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated softcover/NF w/trace shelf wear. Powerfully & dynamic novel of slavery in these United States. Timewise set as slaves gain freedom. Story of African-American Henry Townsend, a former slave, who under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia, becomes both plantation and slave owner himself. Townsend never circumvents the law and builds a strong estate. However, on his untimely death, his widow is unable to maintain matters. The estate disintegrates as the estate's slave labor rebel with new found political consciousness. Author Edward Jones takes an unflinching look at slavery in all of its moral complexities within the upheavals of social change of emancipation.

Paperback. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW Copy; First Edition, First Printing. Softcover/Fine. Outstanding, deeply humanistic, historical novel from African-American novelist Edward Paul Jones (1950 -), well worthy winner of the Pulitzer (2004) and the International Dublin Literary Award (2005). Set in Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War. Life story of mixed-race Henry Townsend supported by a cast of equally complex characters who crossed his path. A skilled farmer & boot maker, and a former slave whose freedom was procured by his parents, bought himself a slave the moment he had the funds. Disciplined in character, pragmatic and not a social-rebel, with support from powerful local mentor, Williams Robinson, he buys his own plantation sustained by slaves whom he kept at a distance since they were but socially sactified "human property". On his death, however, sociial values had evolved again. His widow Caldonia inherits slaves anticipating emancipation. The slaves are not without inner discord; some take to escaping under the cover of night, and others were still in acceptance of bondage --- they betray one another. Meanwhile low-paid white patrollers watch as "white slave speculators" sell kidnapped free black people back into slavery as news/rumors of slave rebellions set white families on edge. A powerful, multi-dimensional analitical work on the discord faced by human beings when as social institutions collapse. Townsend was an honorable being, a fair & gentle master by the standards of his time, but did perpetuate an unsustainable, socially unjust system denied his wife, not without repercusiions to modern times.

Condition: Gut. 1st Edition. 388 Seiten, Namenseintrag auf Vorsatz, Schutzumschlag geringfügig bestoßen, Schnitt papierbedingt leicht gebräunt, ansonsten sehr gutes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 50 24 x 17 cm, Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Hardcover. Condition: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Bi-color,grey & beige boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. 2003 First Edition, 1st Printing. Gilt embossed bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. LAID IN: 7 NEWS PAPER REVIEWS clippings. Superb debut novel by African-American novelist, short story writer Edward Paul Jones (1950 -); winner of the Pulitzer Prize & the Internat'l Dublin Literary Award. A narrative (spanning 3-generations) of interconnected stories of people whose lives were related with that of Virginia plantation owner Henry Townsend --- a black slaveowner, himself born into slavery. America's 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery, was passed in 1865 but not fully ratified by all the states nor implemented immediately. This narrative begins in 1855 on the death of black farmer Henry Townsend, at the time owner of 33 slaves! 388 pgs. A story of joy & pain, irony & sorrow, in human existence.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 388 pages. The author's first novel after, Lost in the City, an acclaimed collection of short stories. An immensely moving novel, that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2003. In 2024 in a New York Times poll the novel was voted the best work of fiction by an American writer in the 20th century. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box.