Philadelphia Fire
by Wideman, John Edgar
From “one of America’s premier writers of fiction” (New York Times) comes this novel inspired by the 1985 police bombing of a West Philadelphia row house owned by the back-to-nature, Afrocentric cult known as Move. The bombing killed eleven people and started a fire that destroyed sixty other houses. At the center of the story is Cudjoe, a writer and exile who returns to his old neighborhood after spending a decade fleeing from his past, and his search for the lone survivor of the fire — a young boy who was seen running from the flames. An impassioned, brutally honest journey through the despair and horror of life in urban America, "Philadelphia Fire isn't a book you read so much as one you breathe" (San Francsisco Chronicle).
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by John Edgar Wideman
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- 1990
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1990 FIRST EDITION Black author At once personal and political, this novel about being Black and male in white America depicts an unyielding core of individual resistance and demonstrates with tragic immediacy how America's mixed signals foster false hopes Item Price
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Philadelphia Fire
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 199p. Original geen boards backed in brown cloth. dj. 23 cm. SIGNED on title-page with Wideman's scrawl.
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New York: Henry Holt, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Wideman on the title page. Item Price
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Philadelphia Fire
by John Edgar Wideman
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. Item Price
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Philadelphia Fire
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Philadelphia Fire: a novel [inscribed & signed]
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 199p. Original green boards backed in brown cloth. dj. 23 cm. Large waterspot on top page edge. SIGNED on title-page with Wideman's scrawl.
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Philadelphia Fire
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine and green paper over boards, dust jacket. 199pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight and nice first edition, signed and inscribed huge, bold and sloppy by the author in black ballpoint on the title page: "For Sherrard / J." Item Price
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Philadelphia Fire
by Wideman, John Edgar
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 1990 Henry Holt FIRST EDITION **SIGNED** on the title page. A MINT unread copy with no wear at all. Winner of the Pen/Faulkner award.
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Philadelphia Fire
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author to a female African-American journalist from Philadelphia. Item Price
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Philadelphia Fire
by Wideman, John Edgar
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Philadelphia Fire: A Novel
by John Edgar Wideman
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Philadelphia Fire
by John Edgar Wideman
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Henry Holt and Company, 1990. First Ed.. Hardcover. Novel, History, Race in America. This book is about being black and male in the last quarter of the American Century. It is a book about race in America. (199 Pgs.) Beautiful DJ, VVG/VVG Item Price
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Philadelphia Fire
by WIDEMAN, John Edgar
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- 1990
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. Softcover. Fine/Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Red Wrappers. Fine with publisher's material stapled to the verso of the front wrapper in a near fine oversized dust jacket with creasing and some toning. Item Price
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Philadelphia Fire
by Wideman, John Edgar
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New York: Henry Holt, 1990 In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. This novel won the Pen/Faulkner Award for the author in 1990, which is the second Pen/Faulkner award the author has won. Based loosely on the horrific events that occurred in Philadelphia when the Police Department bombed the radical headquarters of an African-American group. Cudjoe is an African-American living… Read more about this item Item Price
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