Roark b (46 resultados)

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

Condición: New.

Condición: New.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condición: Good to Very Good-. Vol. 20, No. 109. Cover art by Salter. Includes "Author in Search of a Character" by Phyllis Bentley; "And the Birds Still Sing" by Craig Rice; "The Inspector Had a Wife" by Charles B. Child; "The Jinx Man" by Stuart Palmer; "The Point of Honor" by Thomas Flanagan; "Man Who Voted for Ulysses S. Grant" by MacKinlay Kantor; "Going My Way?" by George Harmon Coxe; "A Matter of Timing" by Victor Canning; "Mrs. Oliphant Deceased" by Michael Gilbert; "The Sheriff Decides" by Roark Bradford; "Morte D'Alain" (First) by Maxey Brooke; "The Creative Impulse" by W. Somerset Maugham; "Detective Directory" by Robert P. Mills; "Index to Volume Twenty". A little soiling; edge and corner wear with dings, small tears and losses; mild tanning; musty. Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good +. "B - I" printed on copyright page, indicating printed in February of 1934. Binding tight, interior clean and bright. Blue boards in nice condition with minor wear along bottom edge and mild bumps to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket preserved in mylar, not price clipped ($2.95); spine lightly faded and chipped. Yellow dj with blue illustration. "In the language of the Southern Negro, a rich and full-flavored narrative shot through with racy humor, Mr. Roark Bradford begins a retelling of some of the Old Testament stories." - from dj flap. 264 pp. Walker, A. B. (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: VG-. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. Collection of "pseudo-African-American folktales" based on the Bible's Old Testament that invited comparisons to the tales of Uncle Remus when originally published in 1928. Later adapted into the play & film, "Green Pastures." This is the 23rd edition from Oct. 1944 (K-T), with wartime paper notice in front. Small 8vo (4.75" x 7.75") has matte black cloth-covered boards with almost completely faded gilt lettering to spine. In 264 pages with line drawings throughout by A. B. Walker.Condition is VG-: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with age-appropriate tanning, unmarked save for former owner's name in neat pen inside front cover. Mild toning to same endpapers. Modest rubbing to extremities & slight bumping to spine tips & corners. No DJ (Missing). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Walker, A. B. (ilustrador).…

Condición: good. Signs of wear and consistent use.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. Dust jacket has handling wear and tear including damage to the edges but has been protected from further damage by a Mylar wrap.End papers have moderate tape discoloration from previous library. Copy has general shelving and handling wear and glue discoloration near binding. ownership.Hardcover vintage children's book.…

Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A lightly worn but sturdy and square, basically clean copy in patterned black and cream boards, contents clean and unmarked, with a chipped paper label on the spine. Looks terrific covered in a facsimile of a Grosset jacket. "F-D" printing (June 1929) specified on copyright page. A. B. Walker (ilustrador).…

Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. The author's first book. An early printing with "F-C" code on copyright page. Slight spine slant, else very good in black cloth and decorated paper covered boards. No dust jacket. Illustrated by A. B. Walker (ilustrador).

Eleventh printing (as stated upon copyright page; per Harper's "K-D" letter code indicating October 1929; originally published 1928). [10], 264 pages. Hardcover: H 19.75cm x L 13.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking).Half-cloth binding - black cloth spine and patterned paper boards with black cloth corners. Spine's paper title label toned; slight scuffing to spine ends; boards rubbed with slender wear to edges (particularly bottom edges); small surface peeled abrasion at front board's upper left. Black top edge; some toning to fore-edge and bottom edge. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper; light toning/foxing to endpapers; a few scattered minor foxing and soiling spots to interior leaves which, overall, remain clean; Seattle, Washington bookseller ticket for Harry Hartman discreetly affixed at rear pastedown's bottom left. Binding is firm. Bibliographical reference: Archibald Hanna "A Mirror for the Nation" #412: "Old Testament stories told in terms of Louisiana Negro life.".…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition Later Printing. Collection of "pseudo-African-American folktales" based on the Bible's Old Testament that invited comparisons to the tales of Uncle Remus when originally published in 1928. Later adapted into the play & film, "Green Pastures." In 264 pages with line drawings throughout by A. B. Walker. A FIRST EDITION, later printing (Mar. 1936 per publisher's code), this small 8vo (5.15" x 7.75") has deep blue cloth-covered boards with black publisher's symbol to front/black lettering to spine. Condition is Near Fine: extremely clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white with just a whisper of tanning, unmarked save for old gift inscription inside front cover crossed out with black marker. Mild toning to same endpapers. Corners crisp. The unclipped DJ (with $3.50 price intact to front flap) is also Near Fine, marred only by a hint of toning/soil to spine; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Walker, A. B. (ilustrador). …

paperback. Condición: Very Good. Berkeley 8-1/2 x11 , wraps, 161pp. VG $.

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. No Dust Jacket. early edition. Printing code "B-D" to copyright page indicates date of printing as February 1929. Black cloth and black/yellow foliate patterned paper over boards with toned and slightly chipped title label to spine. Minor edgewear, lightly bumped spine ends, and some patchy abrasion to front board. In a fresh clear acetate wrapper. Binding sound, text unmarked. Interior toned. B/w illustrations. Bookplate to ffep has no name on it. Not ex-library. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages. Illustrated by A. B. Walker (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG, 12mo, 227 pages, 1.5 pounds. Red and orange paper designed boards with black cloth spine and corner tips. Owner's name on FFE with a spot of sticker removal. The first five pages have a 2" x .25" water stain in upper gutter, SEE PHOTOS. Edges have light foxing and tanning. Pages are slightly tanned but are clean and unmarked. Price clipped yellow DJ is soiled with spots. The spine is tanned and faded.This is in dialect of the time. Walker, A. B. (ilustrador).…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Condición: New. Print on Demand.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware.

Condición: New.

Condición: New.

Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [8],264pp. Some shelf wear to jacket extremities including one-inch closed tear at top of upper spine edge, light dust-soil, including to top textblock edge, spine a bit toned, else Near Very Good and sound. 1936 printing based on the Harper & Brothers letter code on title page verso (C-L). The author's first book, "Old Testament stories told in terms of Louisiana negro life" - HANNA 412.…

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 128 pages + 130 pages of 1930s period advertising. Philip S Bernstein "Religion In Russia" / Genevieve Parkhurst "German Women In Politics" / Bertrand Russell "Why Is Modern Youth Cynical?" / Owen Wister "Roosevelt And The 1912 Disaster" / Roark Bradford "Come Day. Go Day" (story) / Joseph Stagg Lawrence "The Futility Of Farm Relief" / Lee Foster Hartman "Master Builder" (story) / Katharine Fullerton Gerould "Our Substitute Live" / Myron M Stearns "Two Flights In The Fog" / Letitia Preston Randall "Rhapsody In Mauve" (story) / Brendan Lee "Fisherman's Luck" / John Langdon-Davies "Two Childhoods" / Louis L Dublin "Can We Extend The Life Span?" (U.P.). …

Tapa blanda. Condición: New. ROARK, B. / R. SPROAT: COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX. OXFORD, 2007, xx 316 p. , 590 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (LB-2-2) 590 gr. Libro.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good +. First Edition. VG+/VG+ A 1928 First Edition, but not a first printing. This printing is C-L, a later printing. Clean and tight, with no foxing. Price intact. Dust Jacket is lightly tanned on the spine. There's a tear to the rear part of the jacker, next to the spine. There's a small loss of paper at the top of the spine and the two top corners. The dust jacket has now been covered with a mylar sleeve and the previous owner's name is on the top of the front free end paper. Very attractive. 264pp., 32 short stories. Told in black dialect, these are the retelling of Old Testament bible stories. Comes to you in a acid free document bag for storage, mailed boxed, and I can put it in the mail tomorrow. BRBAS. A.B. Walker (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1928 Ol' Man Adam and His Chillun, First Edition, "Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man" Hardcover, Tan binding, has bend mark in front and back boards. Spine is tight, text has some foxing, but still nice. Top of spine torn. A.B. Walker (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: New. New. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover.