Ronald l fair (23 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. 133p. Cloth, paper-covered boards. A new copy, in a new d.j. MULTIPLE COPIES AVAILABLE. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

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

hardcover. Zustand: Good. lacking dj, cover shows minor tanning, pages clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Reissue. 114pgs. a reissue of the 1965, original Edition.Burguncdy Cloth.Light spotting on front panel, otherwise fine.The author's first book, a fantasy in which Blacks in an isolated region of today's American South are still enslaved. Size: Octavo. Book.

Unknown. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. 2023. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Good dust jacket. (Mississippi, African Americans, race relations) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Owner name on the front pastedown else fine in a near fine dust jacket with toning and edgewear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Jacket designed by Abdias do Nascimento. Topedge slightly faded, top of boards lightly sunned, near fine in a slightly rubbed very good dust jacket with a small chip at crown and a lightly sunned spine. Includes the title novella, of life in the Chicago ghetto, and *Jerome*, about an illegitimate son of a priest.…

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

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket. A nice copy of this 1969 reprint.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America--set in a rural corner of Mississippi where slavery never ended From the Civil Rights Era comes an urgent allegory about the terror and tragedy of Jim Crow, with a new introduction by W. Ralph Eubanks The premise of Ronald Fair's short, parable-like novel, Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable (1965), is that in a rural corner of Mississippi--the fictional Jacobs County--slavery did not end in 1865 but continued uninterrupted into the 1960s through the brutal tactics of the local sheriff's office and the willing complicity of surrounding counties. Black outsiders are not allowed into Jacobs County while Black inhabitants attempting to escape are hunted down and killed. All the Black women in the county have been made sexually available to any white man for generations, resulting in the mixed blood of nearly all the enslaved population. When the last all-Black child, 'the Black Prince,' is born, he is secreted out of the county by his great-grandmother and a family friend, and eventually makes his way north to join his father. Years later, when the Black Prince becomes a celebrated writer in Chicago, his growing fame puts an unwanted spotlight on Jacobs County, emboldening the enslaved population, exposing the white supremacists' false sense of superiority, and setting in motion a series of events that will change everything. Will the white population change with the times Or will they willingly see the destruction of Jacobsville--the county's principal town--before sharing power with the Black population An introduction by W. Ralph Eubanks explores Fair's extended metaphor for Black life under Jim Crow and reflects on the power of literature to illuminate the past.…

Zustand: New. Ronald Fair was born in Chicago in 1932, spent three years as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy and after his military service attended the Stenotype School of Chicago. For twelve years he worked as a court reporter. His writing appeared in the.

First Edition. Quarto (31cm); publisher's galley sheets (rectos), comb-bound into patterned paper covers; [vi],127,[1]pp. Modest wear, creasing, and a few tears to wrappers, touch of dustiness to text edges; Very Good+. The African American author and sculptor's second and best-known book, a tragic coming-of-age novel that served as the basis for Joseph Manduke's 1975 film Cornbread, Earl and Me, starring NBA star Jamaal Wilkes and Laurence Fishburne in his film debut. Uncommon in this format.…

First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Green cloth hardcover, spine titles stamped in gilt and black; dustjacket; 114pp. Tight, straight copy, very slightly rubbed at bottom board edges, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (with correct price of $3.50 on front flap), slightly rubbed and worn, chip at upper front panel; spine sunned as usual; Very Good. Fair's first book, an unjustly forgotten masterpiece of alternative-history fiction, praised by George Davis as ".one of the most beautifully written books of the last decade [i.e.,1960's]. Nowhere in our language is there a more tightly controlled and bitterly humorous treatment of brutal scenes such as rapes and lynchings and racist murders" (see Davis's review of Fair's "We Can't Breathe" in the New York Times, Feb. 6, 1972). The novel chillingly portrays a small pocket of the American South where the institution of slavery has survived into the mid-20th century; where the county's Black residents are hunted down and killed if they attempt to leave, but where ancient customs and individual dignity have never been extinguished. The book went into several printings in the Sixties, but fell out of view for decades until its recent reissue by the Library of America. Donald Fair (1932-2018) began writing in the Fifties as a reporter for the Chicago Defender; following Many Thousand Gone he published a number of well-received novels (including Hog Butcher, 1966, which would be adapted for the 1975 feature film Cornbread, Earl, and Me, which featured Lawrence Fishburne in a childhood role). Despite his considerable early success, Fair stopped writing in 1977, when he emigrated to Finland to dedicate the rest of his life to sculpture. …