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MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND.
Edition: 4th printing.
New York: Macmillan, (1965.) dj. Hardcover - Although this autobiography of growing up poor and Black in Harlem is now a classic at the time it was written, when Brown was still a young writer, just barely out of Harlem, it was a revolutionary and enlightening book. His goal was to "talk about the first Northern urban generation of Negroes... to talk about the experience of a misplaced generation, of a misplaced people in an extremely complex, confused society." . 415 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with markings and reading wear, but in a dustjacket with tape repairs to the end of the spine of the dj, price-clipped, etc. Despite the flaws, a sturdy and good reading copy.
Book ID: 37354More details Price: $14.50 -
THE ALVAREZ JOURNAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His first mystery novel and the first in a series of police procedurals featuring half-Chicano, half-Anglo Detective Gabe Wager, set in Denver, Colorado. Winner of the Edgar Award for best first novel. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Laid in is what appears to be a photocopy of a single page note by Burns to book collector Dale Carter. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0105763.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (bit of fading to upper edge of boards)
Book ID: 92684More details Price: $40.00 -
THE WAKE-UP.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 91215More details Price: $27.50 -
MAN EATER.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Leaward, KS: Brash Books, (2014) dj. An LA Noir thriller - a fast and furious novel - sometimes violent, sometimes funny - set in Hollywood, featuring Ronnie Deal, who finds her career detoured when she intervenes in a drug deal gone bad. A reprint under his own name of the first book written by award-winning writer Gar Anthony Haywood under the Ray Shannon pseudonym and originally published in 2004. . 255 pp. ISBN: 978-1941298459.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89005More details Price: $15.00 -
MAN EATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An LA Noir thriller - a fast and furious novel - sometimes violent, sometimes funny - set in Hollywood, featuring Ronnie Deal, who finds her career detoured when she intervenes in a drug deal gone bad. SIGNED on the title page. The first book written by award-winning writer Gar Anthony Haywood under this pseudonym. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-399-149767.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62317More details Price: $28.50 -
MAN EATER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An LA Noir thriller - a fast and furious novel - sometimes violent, sometimes funny - set in Hollywood, featuring Ronnie Deal, who finds her career detoured when she intervenes in a drug deal gone bad. SIGNED on the title page. The first book written by award-winning writer Gar Anthony Haywood under this pseudonym. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-399-149767.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89004More details Price: $28.50
