Portune robert (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1958. First Published. 316 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Zustand: Very Good. Doubleday and Company New York 1960 8vo. 356 pages. yellow and black cloth boards. previous owner bookplate to ffep. binding tight.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. First Edition. 8vo. Bump to spine. Marks to boards. Slight discolouration to feps. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Very Good+ dj. First Edition. [minor shelfwear only to book; the jacket has a few tiny nicks at the base of the spine, modest soiling to the rear panel]. Novel set in an unnamed northern U.S. city, in which the shooting of a black man by police prompts "an investigation of the whole history of Negro-police relations" in the city. Both the topic and the date of publication mark the book as presaging some of the urban racial tensions and unrest of the 1960s, and so it's a bit of a shock to flip it over and discover that the author was a crew-cut, bow-tied white math teacher in Cincinnati. This was the author's second (and last) published novel, although an OCLC search turns up two additional entries that seem to reflect a bit on this one: (1) his Ph.D thesis for the University of Cincinnati, in 1965, entitled "An Analysis of the Attitudes of Junior High School Pupils Toward Police Officers; applied to the preparation of a work of juvenile fiction"; and (2) a 1971 book called "Changing Adolescent Attitudes Toward Police; a practical sourcebook for schools and police departments.". Illustrated by (dj painting) Tom Dunn (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Slight spotting on the page edges else near fine in a very good dust jacket with abrasions, wear on the edges, and rubbing on the rear panel.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition. 8vo ( 21 x 14 cm). 316 pp. Blue paper covers with black titles to blue cloth spine. PO inscription (1957) by author to free endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Unclipped DJ. with wear to edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A first Printing of the First Edition that has discoloration to the edges in Near Fine condition, housed in a Fine dust-jacket; This book is about a young boy named Vinnie who moves to a new town and has to start over. He meets a group of friends and they help him learn about the town and the people in it. Vinnie also learns how to be a responsible person and to be a good friend.; 8vo; 356 pages.…