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FOR LAMB.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Holiday House, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A young adult novel by this award winning writer, set in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1930s. .An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 294 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88332More details Price: $27.50 -
THERE'S NOTHING I OWN THAT I WANT.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in patterned paper covered boards in pale yellow, silver and ivory, in a very good dustjacket (toming to back cover and interior of dj, short closed tear at flap, original price
Book ID: 88297More details Price: $250.00 -
RACE AND RUMORS OF RACE: Challenge to American Crisis.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. A work originally published in 1943, this covers the changes to the American racial situation brought on by World War II, by focusing on the period from July 1942- July 1943. Among the topics covered are the situation in the South, the rumors surrounding Eleanor Roosevelt and the 'Eleanor Clubs' and the Negro in the war services. 245 pages. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine, issued without a dustjacket.
Condition: Very near fine condition.
Book ID: 13039More details Price: $20.00 -
HANGING CURVE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Kensington, (1999.). First edition - A Mickey Rawlings novel - a story involving the Negro Leagues, set in 1922 in St Louis when the Ku Klux Klan was growing in influence in the Midwest, and of the struggle against Jim Crow laws. After a game between a semi-pro team and a black team, the black pitcher is found hanging on the field. 263 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57670More details Price: $20.00 -
HANGING CURVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Mickey Rawlings novel - a story involving the Negro Leagues, set in 1922 in St Louis when the Ku Klux Klan was growing in influence in the Midwest, and of the struggle against Jim Crow laws. After a game between a semi-pro team and a black team, the black pitcher is found hanging on the field. 263 pp. ISBN: 1-575664550.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 73187More details Price: $16.50