Search Results: blood on the forge by attaway

Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. First edition. Ex-library copy with one stamp and taped down inner flaps. Jacket is soiled and edgeworn, with a large chip at tail of jacket spine. Jacket spine is sunned. Mylar covering is also chipped in same location. Top and bottom edges of mylar covering have tape residue. Inner flaps are edged with browned and brittle tape. Front inner flap is stained. Pages are tanned and several pages have stains, with previous owner's stamp in red ink on front endpaper. Endpapers and pastedowns are stained through by old binding glue and have tape residue and damage. Boards are soiled and have tape residue. Spine ends are softened. Binding is secure.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. New York, 1941; 1st edition; orange cloth covered boards; corner and spine edge wear with board slightly exposed at corners; jacket laid-in in pieces with excessive wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Ex-library with typical stamps and markings; Interior is clean and unmarked; 279 pages

New York: Collier Books, 1970. First Collier Books Edition. First Printing. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; xviii,237,[1]pp. Light wear to extremities, else very Near Fine. Attaway's second book, and a classic novel of postwar African-American migration, following the lives and careers of three southern brothers in their travels to the industrial North. Highly praised upon publication by the likes of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but long-neglected until a recent reissue by the New York Review of Books. This edition contains a lengthy introduction by Edward Margolies. HANNA 148, BLAKE p.271.

New York: Popular Library, 1953. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, tiny tear in the base of the spine, spine is lightly creased as well as the lower corner of the front cover, pages are toning, gently shelf worn, overall a clean used vintage first Popular Library paperback edition! Wonderfully well-preserved! Full-color illustrated wrappers. Very very rare and hard-to-find! 190 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages! "A savage, realistic novel of twisted passions and naked violence set against the bleak and brutal background of the booming steel towns of Pennsylvania...." Popular Library Book No. 491.. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Popular Library, 1953. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Ed. First paperback ed. Very good condition, moderate over all wear, light crease to spine, price written on first page. Popular Library #491..

Trade paperback edition, published by NYRB, 2005. Originally published in 1941, this is a first trade paperback of this edition from NYRB. The story of the Moss brothers, three African-Americans from the rural south on their way to jobs in factories in the north. This is not a remainder, not a library discard. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block are clean. Binding is tight and square. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.