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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. Hardcover. xxii, 227p., signed by Hill on front free endpaper, previous owner's stamp on several pages, sunning to spine at head else good first edition stated in cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket with chip at head of spine and sunning.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. 39pp., biege cloth binding. Color illustrations by Paul Brown. Light wear and soiling, faint red scribbling on back cover. Inscribed to J.F. Powers by Jack Conroy "For all the Powers of/St. Cloud, Young and not-so-young, from an/old feller who never could/leap as high as Sam/and now can hardly raise/enough energy to brush/away the blue-tail fly/let along crack corn/Jack Conroy/Chicago/April 8, 1956". Powers and Conroy were friends and they had some correspondence over the years. This copy is from the library of J.F. Powers and is signed by his daugher Katherine and dated July, 1999, when she became executor of his estate. Powers won the 1963 National Book Award for his novel "Morte D'Urban" and his other novel was a finalist for the same award in 1988. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Hardcover. Good.

Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR, who provided an introduction and warmly inscribed this copy to author Richard Peery and his wife. First publication of original essays by the aforenamed authors. No other inscription or notations present: this copy is almost new and unclipped in a Brodart cover.

NY: Dodd, Mead, 1972. First Edition. 8vo, pp. viii, 310. Notes and bibliographies. Illustrated with portraits of authors. Signed on flyleaves by Roy L. Hill, Black poet and professor. Black cloth. Fairly extensive underlining and marking, edges little stained, o/w a VG tight copy in worn dj.

New York: Hill & Wang, 1966. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Saul Lambert dj art. SIGNED BY JACK CONROY with an autobiographical 5-line inscription to Conroy's friends Warren and Ann Medford. Stated first printing with $5.95 price on flap. A revised and expanded version of THEY SEEK A CITY, with new chapters on Marcus Garvey, the Black Muslims, Malcolm X, and Detroit, Chicago, and Watts. Book is fine and else unmarked. Jacket has a small corner nick, light spine edge-rubbing, and light dust offsetting to rear panel, but is else very good, bright and protected by a Mylar plastic cover,

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine copy--bright and clean inside and out--in a very good dust jacket with sunning to spine, light staining to front panel, and slight rubbing at the corners. INSCRIBED BY BONTEMPTS in the year of publication to fellow poet Jean Burden: "For Jean Burden, who would understand any lonesome boy--with the best wishes of Arna Bontemps." Bontemps was a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. 13th printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Virginia Lee Burton. color illustrations (by Virginia Lee Burton), 28p. Pictorial boards. dj. Oblong 22cm. Jacket rather stained and worn. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. SIGNED on title-page by Bontemps (in 1969). Children's book.

HBDJ, Blue decorated Cloth, 1955, 1st edition, minor Rub, Wear & Small chips DJ mainly back btm edge & Spine Ends DJ, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, Book is in good condition, dustjacket shows wear,blue endpapers, INNER DJ FLAP $2, SIGNED by Arna Bontemps, + vintage newspaper clipping with the picture of Mr. Arna Bontemps. He was invited to talk at Lincoln Avenue Methodist Church, his subject was "Breaking Segregation Patterns"

New York: Hill and Wang, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First revised and expanded edition, and first edition thus, under this title, containing chapters not included in the 1945 first edition, under the title *They Seek a City*. A near fine copy in modestly spine-sunned very good dust jacket with a few small nicks and short tears. A history of "the American Negro's search for a home..." containing new chapters on Marcus Garvey, the Black Muslims, Malcolm X et al. Inscribed by Jack Conroy in the month of publication: "For Helma Yate with whom I sang "Shall We Gather by the River" once and made even the stones move. Best from Jack. 4-18-66.

HBDJ, CHIP TO FRONT TOP & BTM EDGE DJ & Small residue, 1951 On Copyright pg,, 1st Edition, SIGNED, VG- , AS-IS, MENDED CHIP REPLACEMENTS TO EXTREMITIES OF DJ , OBLONG binding with YELLOW cloth ILLUSTRATED Boards SOME SMUDGING & Pencil mark WEAR. 4to, 39 pgs, BACK OF DJ CHIPS TO EXTREMITIES, 39 PGS, Here he reimagines for children the life of the early 19th-century performer and legendary champion leaper (Niagara Falls, etc.) Brown & RED White Illustrated Endpapers, Harlem Renaissance novelist and poet.

Alfred A. Knopf. Stated Second (Enlarged) Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. Signed by the author. . Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. 1955.

HBDJ, 1942 On Copyright pg,, 1st Edition, EARLY ISSUE, , NO Date on Title Page, .Early ISSUE Dustjacket $3.23 ON FLAP, VG/VG+, NOT X-LIB. Trade OBLONG binding with Brown Rust cloth ILLUSTRATED Boards. Same illus as DJ which has SMALL Blue & Silver Dolphin Sticker, . Book is very good- with some spotting on top & bottom edges of green cloth (scans available). DJ is very good+ to near fine- . Outstanding full color art by VIRGINIA LEE BURTON (CALDECOTT MEDALIST). 28 PGS,

Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1958. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. ; Provenance: This book is from the estate of Michigan Senator Jack Faxon and comes with a letter of provenance. Grey cloth cover has lightly turned in spine caps and a very faint 1" scratch near the bottom edge otherwise clean and near pristine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Inscribed and signed by Langston Hughes to Jack Faxon on front end sheet. Pages are clean and near pristine. Dust jacket has wear at extremities and three short tears but clean, bright, and in good+ condition. Publisher's price of $6.50 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); 7.0 X 5.0 X 1.0 inches; Signed by Editor .

Inner Hinges Starting Cracked, ,Green, Brown & White Illustrated Endpapers, HBDJ, 1942 On Copyright pg,, 1st Edition, 1ST PRINTING, BK GOOD with Interior pg Slight soil Foxing / DJ VG with tiny Extremities chips tears LITE Crease on back, AS-IS, SCRUFFY & SOILED OBLONG CLOTH cvr binding with GREY OATMEAL ILLUSTRATED Boards with chip btm Spine .INTERIOR PGS LITELY FOXED ,First Printing dust jacket as all titles listed on flaps are pre 1942 "Sad-faced Boy, Choo Choo, Mike Mulligan" and on the rear flap "Don Coyote" by Leigh Peck. Everyone knows that Houghton Mifflin denoted its First Printings by having the date appear on the title page. This book is the only exception and doesn't have the date on the title page. To identify it as a first it must not list subsequent printings, which this does NOT. ,Oblong Quarto, 28 PGS , Grey boards in rough condition with multiples staining/foxing marks. Dust Jacket in VG Condition like it was stored for years, dust jacket price clipped and has small "F… Leer más