Search Results: scottsboro boy by patterson haywood

Collier Books. MASS MARKET PAPER. 1969. . Good-. 1st thus.

Victor Gollancz, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Light staining, foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light thumb marking present throughout. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with noticeable staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 317 pages. Light brown dust jacket over orange cloth. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Tears to edge of last few pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning and water staining to spine and edges. White staining to front panel. Wear marks overall.

New York: Bantam, 1951. First Bantam printing. Light creases to the spine. A little wear to the edges. Notes in pencil on the inside of the back cover.. Paperback. Good.

NY: Bantam Books, 1951. 307pp. Slight wear, faint dampstain to preliminary 6-7 pages. Photos on request.. #920, First Printing, July. Paperback. Very Good-. Mass Market.

United States: Bantam 920, 1951. Solid with two light dents on the front cover and the covers show light wear.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good +.

Doubleday, 1950. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Bantam, 1951. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Ed. First paperback ed. Near fine condition, very slight over all wear..

309 pp. Text is clean and unmarked in a square and tight binding. DJ is worn with the front detached from the spine. Previous owner's name is on the front inside cover. Volume from the Liberty Book Club Edition. From the front DJ flap, "On March 25, 1931, nine Negro boys, unemployed and looking for work, were riding on a train that was passing through a Southern town. They got into a fight with some white hobos and knocked off the train. To get even, the whites reported that the Negro kids had raped two white prostitutes whom they knew to be riding on the same freight train. Thus began the Scottsboro case."

Doubleday, 1950. Very Good. Patterson, Haywood. Scottsboro Boy. Conrad, Earl. NY: Doubleday, 1950. 309pp. 8vo. Khaki cloth. Book condition: Very good with lightly soiled covers and yellowed rear endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with bumped and chipped edges.

London: Panther, 1966. Book. Fair. Mass Market Paperback. First Panther Edition. Fair, Edgewear, tears, creases, stain, spine lean, ink mark, browning. "The frank, brutal story of life in an Alabama prison". Panther #2015. Expanded condition report/scan on request..

Victor Gollancz, 1950. Good. First. .

Panther, UK, 1966. Reprint. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 284 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Panther, UK, 1966. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have moderate wear. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This is Haywood Patterson's own story of the infamous Scottsboro case and its aftermath Earl Conrad tells it in the simple, direct, and powerful words of Haywood Patterson himself - the recently escaped prisoner, the Scottsboro boy who is even now being hunted for a crime he did not commit. On March 25, 1931, nine Negro boys, unemployed and looking for work, were riding on a train that was passing through a Southern town. They got into a fight with some white hobos and knocked them off the train. To get even, the white s reported that the Negro kids had raped two white prostitutes whom they knew to be riding on that same freight train. That was the beginning.… Read More

Doubleday, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Staining and scuffing across boards. Bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 309pp. Octavo [22 cm] Beige cloth over boards. The spine ends are bumped and the covers are cocked. In a price-clipped dust jacket with several small losses from the edges. Hayward Patterson's account of being falsely accused of raping two white women aboard a train near Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931. The trials sparked an international uproar and the defendents were forced to endure the harsh conditions of the Alabama prison system for years. The trials and the Supreme Court verdicts which followed helped fuel the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback. 1966 Paperback (see my photo). Same Day Dispatch

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing. Light shelf wear. Previous owner's name and address are written on the front free endpaper. The front and rear free endpapers are stained from old dust jacket protector tape. The dust jacket has some tape shadow on the flaps, light edge wear, including two short tears. The price, $3.00, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector..

NY: Doubleday & Co, 1950. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 309. End papers stained from old staples, bookplate partially removed from rear e.p., o/w very good. This is the autobiography of Haywood Patterson who was one of the accused in the famous Scottsboro rape case of the 1931. "On March 25, 1931, nine Negro boys, unemployed and looking for work, were riding on a train that was passing through a Southern town. They got into a fight with some white hobos and knocked them off the train. To get even, the whites reported that the negro kids had raped two prostitutes whom they knew to be riding on the same freight train. Thus began the Scottsboro case." Patterson tells his story of Alabama prison farms and jails and his ultmate escape from a term of life in prison.

Doubleday. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. ; Provenance: This book is from the estate of Michigan Senator Jack Faxon and comes with a letter of provenance. Beige cloth cover has light wear to spine caps but clean and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and near pristine. Dust jacket has wear and light chipping at corners and edges of spine panel but clean, bright, and in good+ condition. Publisher's price of $3.00 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ); 8.4 X 5.7 X 1.1 inches; 309 pages .