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Manchild in the Promised Land
by Claude Brown
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine faded, spine ends chipped, covers have worn and torn edges, flaps toned
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
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 on the brink of the American civil rights movement. Translated internationally since publication.
Synopsis
Manchild in the Promised Land is an autobiographical novel written by Claude Brown. It tells about the author's coming of age amidst poverty and violence in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. The book has frequently appeared on banned book lists for offensive language, violence, and degradation of women.
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On Nov 25 2009, Emmanuel2009 said:
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1698
- Title
- Manchild in the Promised Land
- Author
- Claude Brown
- Illustrator
- Jacket photographs Leroy McLucas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, black and gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 415 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine faded, spine ends chipped, covers have worn and torn edges, flaps toned
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
Biblio member since 2023
Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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