OXHERDING TALE Tapa dura - 1982

Indiana University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Indiana: Indiana Universty Press, 1984. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. His novel MIDDLE PASSAGE won the National Book Award for Fiction. Author of SOULCATCHER. Spine crack at the half-title page, else fine

Bloomington:: Indiana University Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 0253166071 . A novel. First printing. Near fine in a near fine (a bit faded along the spine) dust jacket. .

Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1983. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0253166071 . INSCRIBED by author on full title page, "For Rolland L. Comstock, With my best wishes and thanks especially for the Edmund Wilson postcard. Charles Johnson 7/9/93." "Charles Johnson's comic philosophical novel takes the form of a picaresque, first-person narrative. It is the story of Andrew's desperate flight from slavery, but in Oxherding Tale bonding is spiritual as well as physical, sexual as well as racial." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly skewed, small bumps on bottom corners and spine ends; overall, pages are tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minor edge and shelf wear, faded on spine. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 176 pages; Signed by Author .

Indiana University Press, 1982. First Indiana Press. Hardback, Dustjacket. Very good, small amount of curling/wear on front c.

Indiana Univ Pr, 1982-08. Hardcover. Good.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. First Edition, Later printing. Cloth. Very Fine/Very Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, black cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) drawn by Sharon Sklar, 176 pages. Charles R. Johnson (born 1948) is an African-American scholar and the author of novels, short stories, screen-and-teleplays, and essays--often with a philosophical orientation. Johnson has addressed the issues of black life in America in novels such as Dreamer and Middle Passage. The latter won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1990.

Bloomington IN: Indiana University, 1982. First printing. 8vo, pp. 176. Black cloth. A nice copy in little soiled and scuffed dj. His second novel. A novel of slavery. Charles Johnson later won the National Book Award for his novel "Middle Passage" From the dj: " Andrew Hawkins' birth is the result of a huge misunderstanding. His story begins on an evening in 1837. Jonathan Polkinghorne, master of the Cripplegate plantation, and his dutiful butler, George Hawkins, drink a bit too much and decide they can't go home to their own wives—so they go home to each others'. Disaster ensues. Their wives never quite recover, George is banished to the fields, and nine months later Anna Polkinghorne gives birth to the fated narrator of OXHERDING TALE.

Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1982. First Printing . Cloth with Dustjacket. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1986. 2nd novel by the well regarded African American author. Usual sun fading to the spine panel of the dustjacket and an old tape mend to the top edge of the spine panel. Also tiny faint spot to the front edge. Vg/vg

Indiana Univ Pr, 1982. Book. VG+. Cloth. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth with gilt tiles to the spine. SIGNED and INSCRIBED, " For Nan Miller, With great appreciation for buying and reading this book. --Chls. Johnson- ". PRESENTATION COPY to Nancy K. Miller, noted scholar, author, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY Graduate Center. Laid in is the original bill of sale to Ms. Miller dated July 13, 1982 and a review of the book from Publishers Weekly. This copy is VG+ in a VG+ , unclipped ($10.95) DJ. Exterior is rich and clean. Gilt is bright. No edge wear. Inside has modest/moderate toning to EPs where DJ did not cover Scattered foxing to outside page edges. Otherwise, unmarked, clear, and tightly bound. Looks and feels unread..