hodding carter editor (15 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. First Edition. A groundbreaking collection of essays on the history and influence of the press in relation to African Americans, including coverage of the Civil Rights Movement and the race riots of the 1960s. One of the Ward Ricthie Press's social justice productions of the Sixties. A fine, clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First edition. No additional printings are listed. Unclipped ($8.95), mylar protected dust jacket (there is a pencil scribble through the price). Bookplate from previous owner front pastedown. The spine ends are nudged. One corner is bumped. A hint of wear to the bottom of the boards. The DJ has a 1/2" closed tear to the back/bottom edge and this area has some creasing, too. Small chips on top and bottom of spine. A bit of age toning along the edges of DJ.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. MCGRAW HILL PUBLISHING COMPANY January 1963 Binding: Hardcover INCLUDES DUST JACKET WITH SOME CHIPS.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). [11], 409 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.5cm. Gray dust jacket with some surface scuffling and light soiling; short closed tear at front panel's lower left with nick at spine heel; front flap's top corner is price-clipped. Reddish-orange cloth. Slight foxing to text block edges; interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Hodding Carter was the Pulitzer Prize winning editor and publisher of the Greenville, Mississippi Delta-Democrat Times.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). 425, [1], [6] pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 16cm. Dust jacket rubbed; shallow chipping at spine heel with nicks, short tears, and some creasing at other edges; light soiling to white rear panel; front flap is not price-clipped. Light gray cloth; light bumping to spine ends. Slight toning and soiling to text block edges; past owner's ink signature at front free endpaper's top right; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. . FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING.HARDCOVER EDITION WITH DUSTJACKET .binding is solid. NOT EX-LIBRARY COPY .text unmarked .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Don Almiquist (illustratore). The American Trails Series. 408 pp, index. Dx rubbed a little yellowed, spotting, chips and tears at edges.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 232 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 307 pages. 9.00x7.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 400 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Clean, unmarked, sharp corners, firm hinges with DJ with light tanning to Spine o/w VG. BP/Rivers/Louisiana.

Paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Don Amquist (Illustrator) (illustratore). First Edition, First Thus. Stated First Edition, 1963. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Embossed red linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace edge wear & showing faint discoloration. 6th volume in The American Trails Series. Illustrated endpapers. The story of the ambition and significance Spain invested in the Camino Real (the Royal Road) stretching north and east from Mexico towards Louisanna. The Alamo lay along side the doomed highway that was meant to protect Spain's rich mines and missions.

#48 of a limited edition of 650 copies (per publisher's rear colophon). [10], 134, [3] pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. No dust jacket as issued. Blue cloth well rubbed with some staining; shallow cloth loss at frayed spine ends; board corners lightly bumped with slight wear to rear board's bottom corner. Ink markings on front endpapers and at bottom of page 21; past owner's ink signature and personal doodle at half title page with ink markings at page center of which one intrudes upon the title lettering; a few scattered small stains to leaves which, overall, remain clean. Binding is firm. A good+ copy of an uncommon book. Greenville, Mississippi's Levee Press, led by principals Hodding Carter (1907-1972), Ben Wasson (1899-1982), and Kenneth Haxton (1919-2002), may have only issued four titles (with a combined "official" print run of 2635 copies) in seven years but the fine press is placed among the elite in American publishing history. This posthumous William Alexander Percy title was The Levee Press' final title preceded by THE MERCHANT OF BRISTOL by Shelby Foote in 1947, MUSIC FROM SPAIN by Eudora Welty in 1948, and NOTES ON A HORSETHIEF by William Faulkner in 1950. Title page and section title page silhouette tree decorations by Newcomb College-trained Greenville, Mississippi artist Elizabeth Calvert who may have found her inspiration for her illustrations in the cypress tress that adorn the banks of Lake Washington approximately twenty-five miles south of her hometown.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 232 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.