THIS SIDE OF JORDAN by Bradford, Roark - 1929

Harper & Brothers, 1929-01-01. Hardcover. Good. First ed. with opened pages; 255 p., clean and unmarked except for name and book plate of former owner on illustrated front end page and paste down; drawings throughout by Erick Berry; binding firm; in absence of d.j. there is edge to red and brown batik-look boards and a significant ding on side edge of black spine.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Very Near Fine condition. Fresh and crisp. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with endpaper art and interior drawings by Erick Berry. Bradford's second book. "First Edition" is so stated, with Harper code "A-D" designating publication in January 1929. A novel of Negro life on the plantation, set in the bayous of Louisiana. A passage from chapter one: "Bayou Rouge is a bayou that knows its manners. It stretches gracefully and beautifully along in front of the big house, keeping strictly between its banks and behaving itself when it is out where the white folks can see it." Original black-cloth spine / corners and red patterned paper-covered boards. Spine lettering and decorations in green. Johnson/Blanck p. 63. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Near Fine condition/No jacket. Illus. by Berry, Erick . 8vo. 255pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Book. Illus. by Erick Berry. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Book has slight wear to corners, modest soiling. Dj has chips, rear cover soiling, small dime sized hole on the back of the jacket. A "happy carefee" view of the African American when he and she were described as "simple people.".

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Original black cloth spine and corner tips with decorative papercovered boards. Drawings by Erick Berry. Bookstore bookplates on endpapers, page edges lightly foxed, a very good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. New Orleans' own Robert E. Smith's copy Signed by him on the front endpaper. African American life in the southern bayou littered with racial stereotypes.

London: William Heinemann. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's original red cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No Dust-Jacket.cover.There are no previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with No hinge weakness.Complete with several small drawings mostly as chapter headings by Erick Berry.There is foxing present to the text block edges (see pic) and some spotting to the endpapers.8vo 288pp First Uk Edition [1930] . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1930.

Harper & Brothers, 1929. Hardcover. Good. . First ed, stated. SIGNED by author on ffep. No jacket. Previous owner's inscription on ffep as well. Fading to spine, some rubbing to edges. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

Harper & Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Erick Berry. Original black cloth spine and decorated paper boards, with illustrated endpapers and 'First Edition' stated on copyright page. ""A novel of negro life, elemental passion and tenderness"" by the author of Ol' man Adam and His Chllun."" Superb illustrations by Erick Berry. The book is fine except for a vintage bookplate on the lower endpaper and a neat 5-line inscription on the half-title, removable but left in for possible association value. Otherwise unmarked, unclipped, clean and bright, and protected by a Brodart cover. Scarce in this fine condition.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth-backed decorated paper boards. Near fine. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Signed. Signed "Roark Bradford / New Orleans 1940" on the flyleaf.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. Cloth-backed decorative boards. Octavo. [x], 255 pages. Light wear to extremities, some mild soil to dust jacket. Very good to near fine overall.. Drawings by Erick Berry. From the jacket: "A novel of negro life, of elemental passion and tenderness." Attractive dust jacket.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth-backed decorated paper boards. Near fine copy in dust jacket with one chip from upper panel, else fine. First Edition. 1 vols. 8vo. INSCRIBED: "For L. R Jefferson, may the bonds and shares sell as well as I hope this book does. Roark Bradford, February 15, 1929.".

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

Rare! Luanda: Angola. Ministério da Cultura, 1995. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Pages and cover securely held by one clean staple. Interior pristine. Covers clean and crisp, with slight reading wear to foreedge. Many B&W photos/illustrations. 24 pages. Not from a library. Published by the Angolan National Museum of Slavery and National Institute of Cultural Patrimony on the 20th anniversary of Angola's independence.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun ( Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man)". 264 pages.. Solid. Clean. Flyleaf detached from title page, but all pages still bound. A great collector's item and a rare find. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A.B. Walker. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction.

MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."

Alice Walker. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR. Copyright 1989 by Alice Walker. Thorndyke, Maine. Hardcover, ISBN 9780896219298. Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1990. USED. VG CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Large print. 595 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ¾.

As new except for tiny spot on side exterior page edges and light surface scratching on the back cover. 255 pages. 8.5" X 11" X .5" (22cm X 28cm X 1.3cm) History of Harlem as cultural center. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photos of people and cultural ephemera like playbills, tickets to the Cotton Club, and advertising banners about the importance of Black Santa. Part of a project with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Nonfiction. History. Photography. African American History. Regional History- New York.

Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
Jacket like new, slight shelf wear.
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A photographic portrait of African women.

United States: Balamp Pub Co, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Book has one page with a small wrinkle, else clean and tight, jacket has some paper-loss on the backcover, else clean. Jacket is not price-clipped.

187 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards and faux signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. Edited by James R McGraw. First edition. Richard "Dick" Gregory was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, motivational speaker, author and actor. He became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences. Condition: Lightly soiled. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped else better than very good in like jacket.

T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.