Last Conquerors, First Edition (9 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. First Edition Thus. Not price-clipped ($0.50 price on cover). Published by Lancer Books, 1965. 12mo. Paperback. Code of 72-959 on cover and spine. Purple stained page ends. Book is very good. Covers have some light shelf wear. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing # 706 of this African American novel featuring a Negro GI during Occupied Germany. Light creases to the cover. Light edgewear. Lamination is lifting along the edge of the book. Rubbing to the cover. Age toning to the cover and pages. Page 25 has a rough edge. Possible repair. Slight indent mark to the top edge of the book affecting pages 1 to 54. In Good Condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. With Attribution. Inscribed warrmly and signed by the author to Saul Mauriber, Carl Van Vechten's last collaborator and prtner. Also laid in is an invitation in its envelope (with hand written correction) from 1948 inviting the bearer to a forum and autographing party for the author, where Carl Van Vechton would be participating, among others. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge tiny chips. Signed by Author(s).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Avati, James (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. First printing of the first US paperback edition from March 1949. Originally published in the US by Farrar, Straus in 1948. The covers are in very good condition other than having lost virtually all of the laminate cover apart from a section over the bottom left corner of the front cover and around the spine onto the edge of the rear cover. Light creasing to the top corners of the front and rear covers. The spine has some browning and light edge rubbing. Pages browned with the light trace of some prices in pencil to the first page but otherwise unmarked. Cover art by James Avati.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Debut novel by the expatriate American journalist and writer, written at the age of twenty while Smith was serving as an Army typist in occupied Berlin. The plot centers on the romance between a Black American solider and a white German woman, and explores the paradox that a member of the segregated Army might finally be accepted as an equal in a country responsible for the most heinous racial genocide of the century. A significant social protest novel, and arguably the first to examine the racism then rampant in the American Army. First edition. Octavo (5.5 x 8.25 in.); 262pp.; gray cloth boards; dark red spine lettering; in dust jacket. Near fine, with light shelfwear at spine ends and tips, mild toning to textblock. Unclipped ("$2.75") jacket in good only condition, with one larger chip affecting top of front panel and spine (where only the "Sm" of Smith's name remains), and numerous small, shallow chips and edge-tears. No fading to spine panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Slight toning on the board edges and endpapers thus very good in a good only dust jacket with chips, creasing, and toning. Inscribed by the author to his high school teacher. African-American journalist's first novel. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 262 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's grey cloth-covered boards with red lettering to spine, in original jacket. From the libraries of Dr W. Edward Farrison and Dr. Patsy Perry, both former English professors at North Carolina Central University in Durham, (Whiteman p. 43) First edition with FS colophon on copyright and no additional printings indicated. William Gardner Smith was an American journalist, novelist, and editor. Smith is linked to the black social protest novel tradition of the 1940s and the 1950s, a movement that became synonymous with writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Willard Motley, and Ann Petry. Last of the Conquerors is the 1948 debut novel by African-American journalist and editor William Gardner Smith. The novel concerns the author's experience as an African-American GI serving in the racially segregated United States Army in US-occupied Germany after World War II. The protagonist, Hayes Dawkins, has an affair with Ilse, a white German woman. He and Ilse struggle against racist Army officers and policies to sustain a relationship that some white soldiers condemn (although there are also many friendly whites who help them). Dr. W. Edward Farrison ((1902-1985) and Dr. Patsy Brewington Perry (1933-2021) were professors of English at North Carolina Central University in Durham. Condition: Dr. W. Edward Farrison and Dr. Patsy Perry signed on the front paste-down. Boards with bumped corners and one light mark to lower board, spine very mildly sunned with typical handling wear at ends, slight separation from text block at head; minor stains at fore-edge, interior lightly toned with clean, unmarked pages; Jacket unclipped ($2.75) with toning, scuffs, damp staining at spine, and significant edgewear with chips and tears, spine sunned else very good in a good jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, 262 pages; G-/G-; spine pink faded to white and grey with white titling; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$2.75', fading to spine, chipping to all extremities, including head and tail of spine, front hinge; water-staining to fore and lower edges of boards; Signed flat by Smith in blue ink on the ffep, small bleed onto front flap; First Edition, Second Printing, before publication; extremely scarce signed; shelved case 7. William Gardner Smith's debut novel, it reflects his own experience as an African-American GI serving in the racially segregated United States Army in US-occupied Germany after World War II. It revolves around the protagonist, Hayes Dawkins, having an affair with Ilse, a white German woman. Smith's third book, South Street (1954), is considered to be one of the first black militant protest novels. 1352318. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

William GardnerSmith.Last of the Conquerors.New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948. First edition. Octavo. 262pp. Publisher's gray cloth, spine lettered in red, original unclipped dust jacket. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History. . Minor toning; jacket toned, stained, and chipped. Very good.