Pomegranate by Roberts Adolphe (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), soiled at the spine and flap edges, a scuff at the top of the front panel, a few shallow chips and creases throughout. Yellow cloth with brown and green ink lettering and designs on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean and a green top stain, clean internally. Roberts's novel of Felipe Somar, who finds himself as the leader of a revolt against his country's dictator.

First Edition stated. Tom Hall dustjacket art. Very uncommon Caribbean set novel of a liberal journalist who becomes a rebel leader and who falls in love with a beautiful young dancer. Walter Adolphe Roberts, a Jamaican born writer and journalist, was famous for writing the first detective novel by an African-American. Very Good, bit of spotting to cloth, in Very Good dustjacket, old sticker price abrasion at front panel, shallow chipping at top spine end and top rear panel, small stain at top rear flap corner.

Hardcover. Condition: good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First Edition. 313p, octavo. A good copy in a good dust jacket. Ex-library with minimal affiliated markings. Library stamp and card holder on rear end paper. Bards are lightly soiled, minor wear to edges. Name penned on first free end paper. Dust jacket spine is sunned, small stain spot on spine end, long closed tear along spine. Nicks, creasing, rubbing, and clsoed tears to extremities.