Walker margaret foreword (9 risultati)

Presumed first edition (no direct statement) SIGNED BY ELISE WINTER. xx, 136 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.25cm. Purple dust jacket rubbed; some creasing, short tears, and wear at spine ends; 1.75cm tear at rear panel's top right; top corner of front flap Is price-clipped. Dark blue cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine and front board. Non-authorial three-line ink gift inscription on front pastedown hidden underneath dj's front flap; touch of foxing to front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket with Elise Winter's black ink signature also on the front free endpaper. With Foreword by Willie Morris, Introduction, section of b/w plates on unpaged leaves, and concluding with a collection of recipes. Elise Winter, wife of Mississippi Governor William Winter, provides vignettes of life at the Mississippi Governor Mansion in Jackson and in her role of serving as First Lady and hostess to prominent writers, singers, journalists, etc. with chapters on Dean Rusk, Leontyne Price, Eudora Welty, Margaret Walker Alexander, Turner Catledge, Walker Percy, etc. {MS Shelf #2} ISBN 0916242218.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine hardcover in a Very Good dust jacket. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Overall a bright and attractive copy. The book is clean and bright with no signs of wear or aging. Light aging to the dust jacket, though no major tears or chips. 58 pp. …

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

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st edition, 2nd printing. 1st edition, 2nd printing, December 1942. A Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. 8vo., 58 pp., bound in publishers tan cloth with yellow dust jacket, $2.00. Jacket has overall wear and soiling with chipping along edges, tips and spine. End papers tanned; paper is age toned. Text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition. Octavo. 60pp. Owner's neatly penned name ("Vera M. White") on front pastedown, spine ends and corners lightly worn and bumped, cloth lightly dampstained with spotting on page edges, thus a good only copy, with the text clean, in a good only worn and chipped dust jacket with modest tape repair and loss of the extremities and top half of the spine. The uncommon dust jacket is soiled, and quite chipped, lacking upper half of spine, few short creased tears (with external tape mends), else good. Author's first book published as part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First Edition, First Printing. Thin octavo. 6.25 x 9.5 in. 58 pp. Near fine in original yellow cloth with a small stain to foot fore-edge of text block that spans first 18 pages, and very good lettered dust jacket with light wear, sunning to spine, and two small closed tears to lower panel. This is Walker's first book published by the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Number 41. The late author, environmentalist, and civil rights activist Wilma Dykeman's copy with her ownership signature on the front free endpaper.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. (1943). 8vo. 4th printing. INSCRIBED by Walker on half title page. Bumping with minor creasing to spine ends. Small amount of toning and spotting to top edge of boards. Clean, lightly toned leaves. Stamp marking to front pastedown. Very faint soiling to d.j. Chipping to d.j. edges, with approx. 2-inch open tear extending from upper joint of rear panel to upper joint of front. VG/VG. INSCRIBED.…

Cloth with Dustjacket. Third Printing. INSCRIBED SIGNED AND DATED BY MARGARET WALKER SHORTLY AFTER PUBLICATION. The first book of poetry by this African American poet. Inscribed copies are very rare. The dustjacket has wear, some chipping here and there and the flaps are loose but complete. The insides are fine. Fine/good. Book.…

Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: About Very Good. Later Printing. Fourth printing. Signed by Margaret Walker on the half title page and affectionately inscribed, "Very best wishes to all the Joneses because they are friends of my people and such swell people themselves -- Sincerely, Margaret Walker January 28th, 1944 Thanks for a good night's hospitality!" Bound in publisher's yellow cloth lettered in black on the spine. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, light fading to spine ends and edges. Faint tanning to contents with two small red x's written on the first page. In an About Very Good unclipped dust jacket with chipping, toning and soiling. Splitting at flap joints with light toning to verso. An important collection of ballad poems by Walker, a participant in the Black Chicago Renaissance. With this book she became the first African American woman to win the Yale Younger Poets award. She participated in the WPA Writer's Project in Chicago and would have a distinguished teaching career while writing poetry and novels. Signed. …