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E-290: Doubleday Doran. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, New York, 1945. 249 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Chester Himes to Hall Johnson. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (stain present to the fore edge of the front panel of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This story of a man living every day in fear of his life for simply being black is as powerful today as it was when it was first published in 1947. The novel takes place in the space of four days in the life of Bob Jones, a black man who is constantly plagued by the effects of racism. Living in a society that is drenched in race consciousness has no doubt taken a toll on the way Jones behaves, thinks, and feels,… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran,, 1945.. First edition.. 249 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some light wear to base and crown, and sunning to red lettering on spine. First novel by Himes, in much better condition than normally encountered.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1945. First Edition of the author's first book. [6], [1]-249 pp. 8vo. Black cloth boards with yellow lettering on spine; near fine in repaired unclipped dust jacket with loss at spine, rubbed on lower front cover with some small tears along upper and lower edges, bumped upper corner and light soiling; overall a very good copy. First Edition of the author's first book. [6], [1]-249 pp. 8vo. Himes' first novel, a sexually-charged exploration of the alienated consciousness of an African-American worker in an armaments plant in Los Angeles during World War Two, it earned him critical praise, favorable comparison to the works of Richard Wright, and significant analysis in Franz Fanon's seminal study of racism, Black Skin, White Masks (Peau noire, masques blancs, 1952).

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gently bumped and rubbed corners, ink ownership signature and address to front free endpaper, library bookplate to front pastedown, ex-library stamp to title page, stamp to top fore-edge and rear fore-edge, bright pages, tight binding, less than quarter-inch tear to DJ spine head, two less than quarter-inch tears to front-top DJ edge, less than quarter-inch tears to top DJ corners, sunning to DJ spine, ink library code and rubbed paper residue to rear free endpaper, three very small tears to front DJ-rear edge (less than quarter-inch), faint soiling to DJ, mostly to rear DJ, price-clipped DJ, else Very Good(+) in Good(+) DJ.. Small octavo in yellow DJ, 249 pages ; 20 cm. Racism -- Fiction, Psychological. Black Literatue. African-American.|| DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1945. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. The author's increasingly scarce first book, cheaply produced during wartime.

London: Falcon, 1947. First UK edn. 8vo, pp. viii, 203. Black cloth. A VG tight copy in litle chipped dj. Scarce. The author's first book.

PARIS: EDITIONS ALBIN MICHEL.. 1948. First Edition. Very good+ copy in colorful printed wrappers. (Text age toned. Moderate creasing & shelf wear to covers) Text in French. .

NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1945. Fine true first edition in black cloth, stamped in yellow of this, the author's first book. Endpapers professionally replaced. Included in the price is a Fine facsimile dustwrapper that fits the book perfectly. 249 pp. Tight, clean copy! . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine (Facsimile DW).

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Contemporary owner's name, and small stains on front fly, else near fine without dustwrapper. The author's increasingly scarce first book.

Kobenhavn: Westermann, 1947. Softcover. Very Good. First Danish edition. Large octavo. 254pp. Pictorial wrappers. Spine moderately browned with short tear at crown, slight surface abrasions on front cover, a very good copy.

Signet, 1949. paperback. As new mass market paperback. Signet 756, First printing December, 1949. An exceptional, collectible copy.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. First Edition, stated. Octavo; [vi], 249pp. Publisher's black cloth with yellow lettering to spine. Missing dust jacket. Ex- Brentano's Rental Library, Washington, D.C. with stamp at bottom of front free endpaper and abrasions / glue residue to front and back pastedowns where jacket was formerly glued down, and check-out dates in pencil (from November '45 - Feburary '46) on front free endpaper, but no other institutional markings. Boards edgeworn with a few light scuffs to surface. Spine faintly cocked and nudged at head and tail. Opens easily between gatherings, but binding is holding. Pages toned as expected from wartime production, but unmarked.

New York: Doubleday Doran, 1945. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. Stated first edition of the author's first book. 249 pp. A very good copy in simple black cloth covers lettered in yellow at spine. Lacks the uncommon dustwrapper. Paper a bit toned with age. Front gutter starting to separate. African American literature.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Missing. Stated 1st edition with no additional printings listed (1st printing). No dust jacket. Text very good. Binding sound and sturdy but front hinge lightly shaken (i.e. not perfectly tight). Boards have rubbing, bowing, bumping, general wear. From a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Doubleday Doran, , 1945. First Edition. Hardcover, missing Dust Jacket. VG, black cloth no dj.

London: The Falcon Press, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor. Original black cloth, gold lettering and decoration to spine. 203 pages. Previous owner's signature on flyleaf. Dustjacket (now protected) has four chunks missing and no front flap. First UK edition of Himes' debut novel detailing the fear, anger, and humiliation of a black employee of a racist defense plant during World War II. A sound clean copy.

Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible - Good/No Jacket. Slightly leaning spine. Heavy pushing to the head and foot of the spine. Moderate wrinkling to both the front and rear clothboards. Front interior hinge starting to split. Stated first edition.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 249 Pp. Black Cloth, Spine Lettered In Yellow. First Edition Stated. Ligt Wear. Lettering Clear, No Marks, Even Aging To Pages.

Falcon Press, London, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Light age tanning to inside boards and end papers. There is a 'tick' on the inside back board. No other inscriptions evident. 203 pages. No torn or missing pages.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Sociology & Culture. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50072. .

New York: Signet Books, 1949. 191pp. Stiff pictorial cover. ( The cover art is a White woman finger pointing at an African American man. Browniing to the pages,Small clip off a corner. This is the first novel by American writer Chester Himes, published in 1945, about an African-American shipyard worker in Los Angeles during World War II. It earned him critical acclaim and was considered a "protest novel", in the tradition of Richard Wright.. First Printing. Softcover. Good. Octavo.