Who Speaks for the Negro
by WARREN, Robert Penn
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; maroon cloth hardcover, titles stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; red top-stain; dustjacket, 454pp. A tight, clean, and unmarked copy, about Fine with the publisher's top-stain deep, even and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), crisp and clean with just a mild hint of fading to red on spine panel, very Near Fine.
An exemplary copy of this key non-fiction work, by a Southern white novelist, on the Civil Rights Movement of the Sixties, based on hisinterviews with Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer, Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X and many others.
An exemplary copy of this key non-fiction work, by a Southern white novelist, on the Civil Rights Movement of the Sixties, based on hisinterviews with Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer, Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X and many others.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60113
- Title
- Who Speaks for the Negro
- Author
- WARREN, Robert Penn
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Bookseller catalogs
- The South; African-Americana; Civil Rights;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....