frank hercules (56 resultados)

Pamphlet. Condición: Very Good. Feb, 1977, pp. 178-206, Profusely Illus with Color Photos, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Hardcover. Condición: Used: Very Good. This is a first edition of the hardcover. Dj has a few chips, but still bright - in mylar. BUY ME!

Hardcover. Condición: USED Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good Jacket. First Edition. Clean text, square tight binding. Dust jacket in great condition, not clipped.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good in Dustjacket. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1980. Harcourt Brace & Jovanovich. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0151699216. 312 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Caribbean Trinidad Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - This is the dazzling, exuberant, hilarious story of Johnny Sebastian Alexander Caesar Octavian de Paria. Despite the aphrodisiac climate of Trinidad, despite oceans of rum, tons of spices, scores of carnivals, and hordes of ardent young ladies, Johnny is still resolutely a virgin at the age of twenty-one. It is also the story of Aunt Jocasta, a woman of great dignity and Himalayan proportions; Professor Wolfgang von Buffus zu Damnitz, the world's leading authority on urinometrics and everything else; Joe Caldeira, a Portuguese bartender by occupation, a sweetman in his leisure; and Marcellin Gros-Caucaud, a magnificent African of awesome sexual power. In the town of San Fernando, Trinidad, from a swaying hammock under a graceful palm to the smoky interior of the Black Cat Bar, life is joyous for Johnny and his friends. But not for long. A crime of passion, a failed business venture, a venomous snake, and they are all forced to leave paradise. Their chosen route of escape is a sea voyage to England. On the high seas, too, despite the persistent advances of a radish-faced Englishwoman whose rigidity of spine extends to her upper lip, Johnny still preserves his virginity. The ocean liner docks in transit at Madeira, and by grand design Johnny and his entourage converge upon a whorehouse, where they are presented to the cream of local society: a Catholic prelate, a chief rabbi, the prefect of police, a pimp. Now the action really gets rolling. ON LEAVING PARADISE is an elegantly written fable, a pungent satire of colonialism, a sunlit mockery of manners, and above all a grand celebration of youth and sex, lone, and life. inventory #25280.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. ix, 435p., first edition, dj. Trinidad-born African American novelist's analysis of American racism.

Hardcover. 312p., remainder mark on edge else very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. African American novelist born in Trinidad.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first printing of the second novel by Hercules. Born in Trinidad and later became a US citizen. Light edgewear. Light age toning to the cover. Price clipped otherwise in very good / very good condition.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Gut. 298 Seiten Das Buch ist ordentlich erhalten und kann altersbedingte Gebrauchsspuren aufweisen. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 200.

Condición: GOOD. First printing. The first novel by this Trinidian-born African American. "Set in Trinidad, the novel brutally satirized the island's racial caste system and the entire social hierarchy the British had put in place. A Guardian review noted that Hercules 'animates an absurd milieu where skin color, hair texture, ethnic features, business acumen, respectability, and sometimes intelligence have to be carefully weighed before an individual can be given a social acceptability rating.' Named one of the five best first novels of the year by Newsweek magazine." (James M. Manheim) 212 pp. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good unmarked dust jacket (sunning to spine of dj, original price of $3.95 still present.).

Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+++. First Edition. Bibliography. 435pp. Brown cloth boards with title on spine. Pc pictorial Dust Jacket. Postage paid stamp on f.e.p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Condición: Good. 1967. First Edition. 319 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over 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 mild marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Very good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. 212pgs. orange Boards, with embossed gilt lettering. light wear to the spine edges and corner tips, , otherwise near fine condition. Unclipped pictorial jacket has closed tear, chips along the extremities. Author's first novel, dealing with colonialism in Trinidad. Size: Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. vg in vg dj, tight, clean, unmarked, price clipped, dj in mylar, stated 1st printing.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First British edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with toning.

212p., first edition, slightly edgeworn dj not price clipped. Somewhat faded spine. Light rust mark from removed paper clip on front blank end paper, author & publisher's with compliments card laid in. African American novelist.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. NY: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1961. Hard Cover no DJ. First Edition (stated), 8vo, 212pp. Orange cloth covers with gold titles are clean and solid. Spine ends are bumped, edges and corners are sharp. spine lightly faded from age.Pages are clean with no names or markings, not Ex-Library. Compliment card from Author and Publisher laid in. Book condition: VG no DJ. Books are carefully packaged and shipped in a box. Author's first novel.

Hardcover. 212p.,first printing, edge worn and soiled dj showing some fading along length of spine. Trinidad-born African American writer's first novel.

hardcover. 435pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w.; (marginalia, d.w. chipped). New York, (1972).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition. Very good indeed in similar d/w.

Estado de la sobrecubierta: dj. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 435pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy in clean, VG dustwrapper.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Gut. Knaur - 1. Auf. 1971 : Frank Hercules - tb KA-4KTC-BUNL Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 312pp. Topedge trifle spotted else fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny bit of wear.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First American edition. Foxing on the top page edge and a shadow from sticker removal on the front pastedown else near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, shallow chips, and toning. Advance review copy with publisher's slip laid in.

Schutzumschlag. 8°, 298 S., Gzl. mit OU., Gebrauchsspuren, Text auf dem Vorsatz. 42338.

hardcover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. New York. 1961. Harcourt Brace & Company. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With A Small Piece Missing From the Top Spine. 212 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. keywords: Caribbean Trinidad Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - When Mrs. Napoleon Walker, the wife of a wealthy Negro doctor in Port of Spain, selects guests for her famous parties, she uses only one measuring rod - the color of their skins. When Mervyn Herrick, a brilliant Negro lawyer, contemplates a Trinidad governed by the Trinidadians, he wishes the British would rule forever. When Dr. Ivor Griffiths, the eccentric Welsh physician, thinks of the island's British population, he wishes them all at the bottom of the sea. And when the Governor's aide-de-camp, who has been having an affair with the Governor's wife, tells his superior of the alliance, the old boy secretly relishes the thought of what is in store for his young subordinate. Frank Hercules combines these characters with humor and insight in his highly readable novel. To him Trinidad is its people, and his compassion for their ambitions, shortcomings, and human foibles is evident in every situation he creates. In WHERE THE HUMMINGBIRD FLIES, the West Indian island of Trinidad ceases to be the paradise it is often pictured, and becomes Trinidad as it really is - an island anxious for independence but fearful of cutting itself adrift in what might prove to be not merely an unknown but a stormy sea. inventory #7578 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With A Small Piece Missing From the Top Spine.

1. Auflage. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 250 Kein Schutzumschlag Hardcover Gut.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Condición: Gut. Seiten leicht gebrÃunt, Schutzumschlag oben ein kleines StÃck eingerissen 77065 Sprache: Deutsch.

Taschenbuch Gut. 298 Seiten / Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 250.

Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY Trinidad-born African-American author on front end page- "For Mrs. Joan Sterns, with my very cordial regards, Frank Hercules March 4, 1961", a quite SCARCE SIGNATURE in this his first novel. Book is Near Fine, 2 small corner bumps, in a Very Good dust jacket, spine faded, chips at spine ends and flap folds. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.