Messenger by Charles Wright: First Edition (16 results)
Published by Farrar, Straus & Company, New York 1963
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Very good ex-library copy with usual library markings, slightly cocked spine, and some toning in a good only dust jacket with a stain on the rear panel, tears, tape remnants, and rubbing. Author's first book. James Baldwin blurb.
Language: English
Published by London: Souvenir, 1964 1964
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Klanhorn, Queanbeyan, NSW, AustraliaKlanhorn
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Original price: US$ 40.01; 40% offCurrent price: US$ 24.01
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Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. 1st UK Edition. VG++, Shelfwear, Edgefoxing/VG++, PC, Chips, Tears, Perfs. 1st UK Edition. Drama. Scan on request.
Published by Souvenir Press Ltd. 1964 1964
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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FIRST EDITION. 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.
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Published by Farrar, Straus and Company, Inc., New York 1963
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing (stated). Mild bumping to the lower corner tips, else near fine; in a very good plus photo-pictorial dust jacket with modest shelf wear, and rubbing to the black front panel. Original price ($3.95) intact on the upper co…rner of the front flap. The African-American author's first novel with positive reviews on the rear panel from James Baldwin, Lucy Freeman and Kay Boyle. "In The Messenger (1963), Wright draws extensively on his life. Realistically narrated in the first person by Charles Stevenson -- a light-skinned African American newcomer to Manhattan from small-town Missouri -- the novel dramatizes the isolation and alienation of those who fall prey to America's social, economic, and racial caste systems. Stevenson works as an office messenger and constantly finds himself on the edges of power, yet is utterly devoid of any. A man perceived as neither black nor white, "a minority within a minority," he drifts through the naturalistic city of New York, where victory and defeat are accepted "with the same marvelous indifference."--goodreads. Listed in Ian Young, THE MALE HOMOSEXUAL IN LITERATURE: A Bibliography (second edition) #4236. and Roger Austen's PLAYING THE GAME: The Homosexual Novel in America, page 201-203.
Published by crest 1964
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, webster, NY, U.S.A.GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. first edition. 716 near fine, unread paperback.
Language: English
Published by Souvenir Press 1964
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: JuddSt.Pancras, London, United KingdomJuddSt.Pancras
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Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 38.07
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper worn at edges and a litle soiled. Ink inscription on front endpaper.
Published by CREST BOOK, NY 1964
- First Edition
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.Gian Luigi Fine Books
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Condition: VG. 1ST. FIRST CREST PRINTING, USUAL TANNING TO PAGES.
Published by Farrar, Strauss and Company 1963
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Anagoge Books, Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.Anagoge Books
Contact seller5-star sellerdj. First Edition. 8vo, quarter white cloth over black paper boards, silver and grey titles, red top stain, 217pp. First printing. Unclipped dust jacket (3.95) with light rippling, creasing to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper, tape residue impressions to board and endpaper edges. Contents clean, binding sharp and sq…uare. The debut novel by the unsung Black American writer, a semi autobiographical bildungsroman of a young man transplanted from Missouri to New York City. Dust jacket blurb by James Baldwin. A very good copy in mylar. .
Published by Farrar, Straus & Company 1963
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.Riverby Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover with DJ. Black paper over boards with white cloth and black and gray lettering on spine. Black and white DJ with white lettering. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1963, stated First Printing. 217 pages. In good condition. Head and foot of s…pine are bumped. Covers are a bit faded, but clean. DJ appears toned, with some shelf-wear, mostly limited to edges. Pages are free of marks and binding is strong.
Published by New York, Farrar Straus, 1963. 1963
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, AustraliaGrant's Bookshop
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8vo. vi+216pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. A very good copy. . First edition. Author's first book.
Published by Farrar, Straus, and Company 1963
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Snowden's Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.Snowden's Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original hardcover in jacket, first printing, book is solid and square. Book has been read and there is some bumping along the top board edges; some bumping lines across back covers; light age-toning, soiling to the white cloth spine. Mild reading wear, a…ge-toning to the pages. About very good minus. Jacket is good to good plus with some rubbing, wear along edges -- few chips and tears -- and some soiling along spine. Comes in old protective mylar sleeve which has some rubbing and wear. Decent first printing. b2.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Company,, NY: 1963
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A novel. The author's first book. Stated first printing. Small stain on fore edge, else very good in a very good (moderate edge wear with two small chips, age toning) dust jacket. B0006AYKSC.
Published by Farrar, Straus & Company, New York 1963
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Dirt Farm Books, Swarthmore, PA, U.S.A.Dirt Farm Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 217pp. White spine over black boards, black and gray titles on spine. Slight sunning to upper edge of front board, previous owner's name in ink on front paste-down, otherwise book is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket crisp and unclipped in mylar sleev…e. Wright's debut, hailed by James Baldwin as the arrival of a notable writer. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by New York, Farrar, Strauss 1963
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.NUDEL BOOKS
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, stated First Edition, about Fine in Good D.J., chip top edge obliterating the r in Messenger, and general chipping and some tears. LONG BLURB BY JAMES BALDWIN.(VVbrtv2/1).
Published by Farrar, Straus & Company, New York 1963
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in a very slightly spine-toned else about fine dust jacket. Author's first book. James Baldwin blurb.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Rutledge Rare Books, Heath Springs, SC, U.S.A.Rutledge Rare Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition, Farrar, Straus & Co., New York, 1963, Hardcover with dust jacket, Very good condition.
