Manchild in the Promised Land
by Claude Brown
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good book; good dust jacket
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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.
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:
Its nice
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Details
- Seller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1894
- Title
- Manchild in the Promised Land
- Author
- Claude Brown
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt and black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 415 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book; good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club 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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....