Manchild In the Promised Land

New York: Macmillan, 1965. First Edition, Seventh Printing (stated). Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 415 pp. Near Fine / Good+. Unclipped first state dust jacket showing original price of $5.95. Red buckram over board, spine lettered in gilt and black. Fore edge deckled, top edge stained red. Publisher's number "51732" black stamped at lower right of back cover with… Saber más sobre este artículo

Red cloth boards with some wear and fading along bottom margin. Bottom margins and bottom of text block have some bumps, and bottom of spine shows some wear. Otherwise, binding is tight and pages unmarked. Slight age-related yellowing of pages and endpaper margins. DJ has bottom stain near spine. Some chipping along margins. Two open tears… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Macmillan, 1965. First edition, First printing. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Slight tears at base of DJ spine, light spotting on DJ, book bright and clean, no marks of any kind

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on Claude Brown's successful 1965 autobiographical novel, which follows a young African American boy coming of age in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. Set in Harlem. Gold untitled wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Arnold Federbush and author Claude Brown.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Macmillan, 1965. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. 3rd printing. Inscribed by the author. Dust jacket worn and stained, with some bits missing from the corners.

MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND, Macmillan, 1965, first edition, creasing to the front and rear covers, else a vg+ copy in wraps. An advance copy of the authors highly desirable first book. INSCRIBED by the author to the former premier Walt Whitman collector, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg.

New York: The Macmillan Company / London: Collier-Macmillan Limited, (1965).. (1965).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped. The edges of the dust jacket panels & flaps are somewhat darkened & there are some small stains to the jacket spine. 415 pages. Very good. <p>Fourth printing.<p>"I want to talk about the first Northern… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: Macmillan, 1965. Paperback. Good. Paperback. Advance Reading Copy. Slight spine lean, wraps rubbed and darkened with some rounding to the corners and a small tear to the edge of the front, else a good example of an uncommon format of Brown's modern classic, an autobiographical coming of age story set in Harlem in the 1940's and 50's.… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: MacMillan 1966, 8th printing. (Hardcover) 415pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Price-clipped and a previous owner's stamp inside. Locale: United States. (History--United States, Black Studies, Race Relations).

Touchstone. Very Good. 1999. First Edition Thus. Paperback Smyth-sewn. 0684864185 . First Touchstone Paperback edition. Very good paperback with tight binding and clean pages. Very minimal shelf wear to edges and corners of covers and spine. ; 8.40 X 5.50 X 0.90 inches; 415 pages .

Touchstone Books, 1999. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Signet, 1966. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. Front wrapper lightly foxed, spine creased, rear wrapper creased, pages lightly toned. 1966 Mass Market Paperback. viii, 429 pp. Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable stories of our time. This is a thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise… Saber más sobre este artículo

NY: The Macmillan Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. Third Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition, Third Printing (stated). Publisher's full red cloth, gilt and black lettering on spine, top edge red, fore-edge deckle. "Manchild in the Promised Land" is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: A Touchstone Book / Simon & Schuster, 1999. Paperback. 415p., trade-size softbound in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps, reprint of the mid-60s Macmillan edition. A very good copy; has a remainder strike across the bottom textblock edge, else entirely clean, unmarked and sound. FYI, the decorative cover photo is a vast improvement over the earlier design.

Touchstone Books, 1999. Paperback. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, black and gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 415 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine faded, spine ends chipped, covers have worn and torn edges, flaps toned. Jacket photographs Leroy McLucas. The autobiographical novel depicting life in Harlem post-World War II and… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Macmillan Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Brown on the half-title page. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), generally soiled, faded at the spine. Red buckram, faded at the top and bottom edges, with gilt and black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. Book Club Edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt and black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 415 pp. Very good book; good dust jacket.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. The Advance Copy, in its original beige wraps. Clean and bright and VG+. Very light staining at the foot of the spine. Octavo, 415 pgs.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. Hardcover. 415p., first British edition, very good first UK edition in boards. Price-clipped dust jacket shows some foxing on the rear panel & flap, front flap shows abrasions and the lower edge African American author.