The Freelance Pallbearers

New York: Doubleday, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo. Black cloth, with gilt spine lettering. Red end papers. 155 pages. Both front and rear paste downs have minor bubbling near spine. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with "$3.95" price intact), designed by Bob Sullivan, is edge worn, with light soiling along top of rear panel.… Read more about this item

First Edition Hardcover Book in Dust Jacket. Approximately 1/2 of pages have minor underlining as shown in the pictures. Owner's name on free end page. Binding square & tight. Jacket has small piece missing and crease at bottom front edge. Flap corner clipped but not price clipped.First edition of the author's first novel.

Stated First Edition. In very good condition, clean and unmarked, black cloth boards without wear, in a very good dust jacket, wear at edges, small closed tear at back panel.

Garden, City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Reed's first book, an "irreverent" novel. A fine copy in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket but with a price still on the front flap with some very minute wear. Signed by Reed on the half title page. A fresh and bright copy… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday,, 1967.. First edition.. 155 pp. Fine in very near fine clipped and re-priced dust jacket. SIGNED by Reed on the half-title page. His first book.

Doubleday & Co., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Bob Sullivan Dj Art. Stated first edition of author's first book. A novel about ""A quixotic young Negro who is eager--if not always ready--to face the dangers of life."" An unusually well preserved copy, clean, unmarked and unclipped in a Mylar plastic jacket protector.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a few tears.

NY: DOUBLEDAY. 1967. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0385088647 . INSCRIBED by Ishmael Reed on the half-title page. Close to fine in very good DJ. (Previous owner's name neatly inked at head of first blank . Couple of tiny edge nicks in DJ. Slight trace of shelfsoiling in spots. … Read more about this item

Allison & Busby. Very Good. 19.7 x 12.9 centimetres. Paperback. 1990. 153 pages. <br>For all the talk of the black aesthetic, few blac k novelists have broken sharply with the traditional devices of t he realistic novel. One writer who departs from such conventions, however, is Ishmael Reed. . . . The Free-Lance Pallbearers uses an explosive… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. The author's first book. First edition. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else near fine in a very good (minor shelf wear), price clipped dust jacket. .

Garden City: Doubleday & Company. 1967. First Edition. NF/VG+, book front pastedown stamp in black: "With compliments of Doubleday & Co. , Inc. " DJ top front inside flap cut (but price is still present and intact on the flap) , 1/2" tear top edge front panel, spine slightly darkened, minor general edgewear. Overall a tight solid… Read more about this item

THE FREE-LANCE PALLBEARERS, Doubleday, 1967, first edition, fine in like color pictorial dust-wrapper. INSCRIBED "Maintain the trust" by the author in a script you can easily read. His first book.

Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967., 1967. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket (corner clipped, but with printed price of $3.95; few nicks). Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Reed's first book, story concerning "a quixotic young Negro.who is eager - if not always ready- to face the dangers of life" (DJ).. F. Hardcover.

Doubleday, 1967. First edition, first printign. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Fine in very good, toned, corner-clipped, and lightly edge worn dust jacket, in mylar cover.. Ismael Reed is best known for his satirical challenge of American culture. This is his first book.

Bantam. Used - Good. Good condition. Mass Market Paperback edition. (Black People, Satire, Political Fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1967. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". F First Edition Used. H Hard Cover. Very Good. VG/VG in DJ (few sm nicks & light wear/price clip to DJ; name stamped to inside endpaper). 8vo with DJ [1 2],155pp Author's first book: "electrifying first novel" (DJ).

Bantam Books, 1969 Book. Good. Mass Market Paperback. 113 pages. Covers scuffed and scratched, chip on the upper front corner, light edge wear. Clean text. Original paperback edition.

New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated, no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. This collectible, " NEW"… Read more about this item

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968. 1st edition. Near Fine. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 155pp., Satirical novel of an American negroÕs vision of future America. Stunning dust jacket by Malcolm Dean. Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket. Uncommon

New York: Doubleday. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition Stated. Hardcover. Stiff unmarked book in black cloth; slight dampstain to top edge of the dust jacket, rear panel, has affecting slighty the rear endpapers; in dust jacket lightly rubbed with small chip from rear top edge and 1 cm tear to front panel. .… Read more about this item