Pharr robert deane (21 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Softcover, 236 pgs. Light wear.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

paperback. Zustand: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 236 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (stated), first printing of the original hardback imprint. A novel based on Harlem's single room occupancy hotels. The second book by this African American author. Very slight wear to the binding and unclipped dust jacket. Still a very nice copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First UK edition. 5 1/4 x 8 in. 374 pgs. Scarce first UK edition, 1969. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; no wear to corners or edges, binding tight, text perfect. FINE except extremely faint yellow spotting to cloth, and old Strand price sticker on front pastedown. DJ condition is VERY GOOD ; not price clipped (40s) no chipping or tears and edges hardly worn at all, very clean and bright except again, extremely faint yellow spotting. A fantastic copy overall. Fiction. RG.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 212 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Steven Stroud. His fourth book, the story of the Harlem underworld. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. In the tradition of Chester Himes and Walter Mosley, Robert Deane Pharr's novel tells the tale of two black men, Dave and Blueboy, traveling waiters who establish themselves as numbers runners in a fictionalized Richmond of the 1930s. Published to great acclaim in 1969, The Book of Numbers centers on powerful themes of truth and illusion, myth and legend, and vividly conveys a sense of African American life on the periphery of white society. The new Virginia edition complements Pharr's text with an afterword by the Washington Post editor Jabari Asim.…

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing. Pharr's first and best known novel, basis for the 1973 film of the same name. The story of two men who create a numbers racket in the Black community of Richmond, Virginia in the 1930s - the two waiters, Blueboy Harris and Dave Greene, briefly achieved almost unimaginable success before seeing it all end in tragedy. When this was published, Pharr was 57 and he had spent many years working as a waiter himself, and was still doing so when the manuscript got to a publisher. His books are as relevant now as when they were published: he depicted policing as an unreformable system built to brutalize and oppress Black bodies and others of color. As one writer said "The very things that keep Pharr obscure - his unwillingness to pander to white readers, his focus on writing about Black life at all levels of American society in a plain-spoken way, his anger at the way Black people have been abused and murdered in different ways by this society -are the reasons we need him right now." (Christopher Smith) Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, tear to dj at top of spine, other edgewear, price-clipped, but still a decent copy of an important but overlooked African American novel.).…

1978, 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 212pp. Unclipped dust jacket shows general, minor shelf wear. A very slight bit of stress damage to head of cloth spine, else about fine.

Zustand: Good. 12mo. Dust Jacket, Very Good with some staining, creasing. Illustrated. Protective jacket.

Zustand: Good. PRIMA EDIZIONE. Condizioni dettagliate: Più che buone, lievi macchie, sovraccoperta mancante, copertina rigida.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. 374 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Seymour Chwast. Advance review copy with publisher's stamp on the front endpaper. His first book. The story of the African-American sporting life in the South during the 1930s. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with a small closed tear to the top of the back cover. A beautiful copy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper worn at edges.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1971. 569 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. First published in 1971, this powerful, autobiographical novel chronicles the initiation of college-educated waiter and writer Sid Bailey into the teeming life of a Harlem welfare hotel. Bailey gradually sheds his straight habits as he becomes adept in the ways of the motley crew of addicts, pushers, lesbians, prostitutes, winos, and unclassifiable misfits who live there--learning much about himself and the life of Harlem's streets.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Hardback. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. A very scarce first UK edition of this work published in 1970. The first UK edition. First published in the US the year prior.Very scarce.In the original unclipped dust wrapper. This hardboiled crime novel tells the story of two brothers and their story of Richmond in the 1930s. The plot centres on themes of power and truth asking the question of who has control. Within this novel, Robert Deane Pharr explores his heritage and personal experiences. This is thought to be his most popular novel. In the original publisher's cloth in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart. Damp stain on the spine of the dust wrapper. Edgewear to the head and tail of the spine. Light marks to the dust wrapper. The boards are bright and clean. Internally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First British edition. Light foxing on the endpapers else near fine in a very good dust jacket with internal foxing, rubbing, and edgewear. African-American author's first book.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Equinox edition. Paperback original. Pages and wrappers modestly age-toned, near fine. The fourth and the most successful novel by the Black author who was best known for his first title *The Book of Numbers*.