Isbn: 9780670804610 - providence (14 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Hailed as Will Campbell's most literary work, Providence chronicles the more than 170-year history of a square mile of plantation land in Holmes County, Mississippi. Shifting between history and autobiography, Campbell illustrates the quest for justice among the Choctaws, African Americans, and Whites on the parcel of land designated Section 13. From the forcible removal of native Choctaws, to slavery and sharecropping on the Providence Plantation, to an interracial cooperative farm in the 1930s-50s, and finally to the present-day ownership by the Department of the Interior, Providence, according to Campbell, has seen a lot. In a way its saga is the story of the nation.…

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

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

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

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 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.

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

Zustand: Very Good. First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (psychopaths, families).

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing. A novel which describes the effect of violence on five people - but also a novel in which the setting, the city of Providence, Rhode Island, plays a large part. Providence is a city "big enough to have neighborhoods, small enough so that everyone knows overone. . . steeped in history and corruption, [a] rough and pretty old Yankee port. . . the biggest organized crime operation in New England jostles with and sometimes runs the action at City Hall." 217 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDnear Fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Viking, 1984. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Quarter blue cloth over cream paper-covered boards, with silver spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($16.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy with no faults. Octavo, 217 pages. Light-blue endpapers. A novel set in a small coastal town, "Providence" explores academic life, personal loyalty, and the costs of ambition through the story of a university administrator caught in a moral and institutional crisis. Wolff is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including the memoir "The Duke of Deception"a finalist for the National Book Awardand the biography "Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby.".…

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 217 p. Near fine in near fine jacket in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Tipped-in "Author's Compliments" label on the half-title, warmly Inscribed by Wolff to author Nicholas Delbanco.