Search Results: youngblood by killens

Dial. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear, chips. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1954.

NEW YORK NY: TRIDENT PRESS. FINE IN A VERY GOOD+ D.J.. PUB 1966. 1ST THUS. HARDCOVER. REISSUE WITH NEW PUBLISHER / REVIEW COPY WITH PUBLICITY SHEET LAID-IN . BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. HAS SOME MODERATE WEAR AT THP CORNERS AND SPINE ENDS, A COUPLE OF TINY EDGE TEARS AND SURFACE SCRAPES, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. .

New York: Dial Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Faint spot on the foredge, modest soiling to the boards, a very good plus copy in very good plus dustwrapper with two tiny holes on the spine and a few short tears. First novel by an author whose importance to African-American literature is often overlooked.

New York: Dial Press, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Tape marks to the endpapers and a bit of wear to the board edges, thus near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Killens. First novel by an author whose importance to African-American literature is often overlooked.

The Dial Press, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. First edition, second printing. All pages are clean and unmarked, although starting to tan throughout. Binding and hinges remain secure. Jacket protected in mylar. Minor scuffing and wear to jacket edges and soiling throughout. A few small closed tears, but presents well in mylar.

New York: Trident Press, 1954. 475pp. Prev. owner inscription on the front free endpaper. Black Cloth, white lettering. "H" stamp on the front pastedown, otherwise a very clean copy. Purple pictorial jacket (by Jim McMullan) has chips, closed tears on the extremities. Liftoff on the front flap. In mylar sleeve. Story of the Youngbloods, a black family in a small town in Georgia and their ordeal living in a brutal, racist environment.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Octavo.

London, England: Bodley Head, 1956. First British edition. Hardcover. Good/Good- Dust Jacket. First British edition, 1956. good+, lettering on spine lightly rubbed. Good unclipped dust jacket, with a 1/2" chip at head, minor chipping to corners and light uneven dust soil. Killens was an important figure in the Black Arts Movement; African-American civil rights activist; creator of the Black Writerââ_x0082_¬â_x0084_¢s Conference. Around 1950, Killens co-founded with Rosa Guy and others a writers' group that became the Harlem Writers Guild (HWG). Youngblood, his first novel, dealing with a black Georgia family in the early 1900s, was read and developed at HWG meetings in members' homes. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

New York: The Dial Press, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition second printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 566 Pages .

London: Bodley Head, 1956. Book. Very Good. Card Covers. First Edition.. 566pp; Slight shelf wear to edges and inside d/w toned else very good; Size: 8vo.