Editore: Riverhead Hardcover, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594489726 ISBN 13: 9781594489723
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Editore: Riverhead Books, 2009
ISBN 10: 1594483507 ISBN 13: 9781594483509
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
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Condizione: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Editore: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 2009
ISBN 10: 0340976497 ISBN 13: 9780340976494
Da: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.43.
Editore: Penguin Audio, 2008
ISBN 10: 0143142917 ISBN 13: 9780143142911
Da: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
audioCD. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Editore: Books on Tape, 2008
ISBN 10: 1415948607 ISBN 13: 9781415948606
Da: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.
AudioCD. Condizione: Good. 9 AUDIO CDs withdrawn from the library collection. Some library markings. We will polish the AUDIO CDs for your satisfaction. You will receive a good set. Enjoy this reliable AUDIO CD performance. Audio Book.
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Editore: Riverhead Books, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594483507 ISBN 13: 9781594483509
Da: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Very good paperback.
Editore: Riverhead Books/Penguin Putnam, Inc., New York, 2008
Da: BJ's Book Barn, Kennesaw, GA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition - first printing. Book is clean and tight. Dust Jacket in protective cover. 359 pages.
Editore: Riverhead Books, New York., 2008
Da: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: New. No Jacket. Special Edition. Uncorrected Proof. New, illustrated wraps. A fine book, clean and tight, unread, without any marks or defects. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free. With publicity materials laid in.
Editore: Riverhead Books, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594489726 ISBN 13: 9781594489723
Da: Gebhard and Burkhart Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: FABA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hard cover. A near fine copy with slight wear to the top edge. The dust jacket is very good wear to the edges and the inside flap' The story starts in 1850 in the slave state of Maryland. It is filled with History and brings to light the misunderstanding in American fiction with slavery's haunting choices.
Editore: Riverhead Books, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594489726 ISBN 13: 9781594489723
Da: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket.
SOFTCOVER. 308. Liz Spocott is a captured runaway slave, shot and near death, and shackled to other runaway slaves in the attic of the notorious slave-catcher Patty Cannon. The ancient nameless woman she is bound to reveals 'the Code', a fiercely guarded, cryptic means of communication for slaves on the run. When Liz escapes once again, Denwood Long, a troubled slave-catcher and waterman, is coaxed out of retirement to break the Code and track down Liz, whose extraordinary dreams of tomorrow have created a freedom-seeking furore among the once complacent slave community. The mysterious disappearance of two children, one white, one black, seeds an explosive ending. Filled with rich history - much of the story is drawn from historical events - and told in McBride's signature lyrical style, Song Yet Sung, brings into full view a world long misunderstood in American fiction: how slavery worked, and the haunting choices beneath the surface, pressing both whites and blacks to search for relief in a world where all seemed to lose their moral compass. This is a story of tragic triumph, violent decisions, and unexpected kindness. 2008. A trade paperback copy in near fine, unmarked condition. 3.7 Centimeters X 15.1 Centimeters X 23.2 Centimeters.
Editore: Riverhead Books, NY, 2008
Da: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. 359pp. Dark purple spine with bright gilt title and deep green paper over boards. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Novel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
Editore: Riverhead Books, NY, 2008
Da: Du Bois Book Center, Englewood, NJ, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Cloth. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. 359pp. Dark purple spine with bright gilt title and deep green paper over boards. Pictorial Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
Editore: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594489726 ISBN 13: 9781594489723
Da: Fine Old Books Coastside, Montara, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR JAMES McBRIDE, in black ink on title page. Riverhead 2008 Signed first edition, first printing. New/new; brand new and unread. Flawless forest green hardboards with black spine; metallic gold printing; corners sharp and square. Textblock clean, tight, square, unmarked, unread, flawless. Unclipped pictorial dj with original price on flap; flawless; protected in clear archival Brodart wrapper. Packaged with care and shipped in a box to arrive in best condition. Complete satisfaction guarantee. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008
ISBN 10: 034097642X ISBN 13: 9780340976425
Da: Bestsellersuk, Hereford, Regno Unito
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Bumped Edges. Sun Damage to edge of Pages. No.1 BESTSELLERS - great prices, friendly customer service â" all orders are dispatched next working day.
Editore: New York: Riverhead Books, (2008.), 2008
Da: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First edition - Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) His third book, an historical novel of slavery set in the years just before the Civil War and inspired by the life of Harriet Tubman - a story of "slaves and slave-catchers, of facing the tyranny of the past and dreams of the future." In 2013, McBride won the National BookAward. 353 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new).
Editore: Riverhead, New York, 2008
Da: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Hardcover. 8vo. 359 pp. The author's third book, an historical novel of slavery set in the years just before the Civil War and inspired by the life of Harriet Tubman In 2013, McBride won the National Book Award. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Editore: Riverhead Books, U.S.A., 2008
ISBN 10: 1594489726 ISBN 13: 9781594489723
Da: The Casemaker, Troup, TX, U.S.A.
Copia autografata
Hardcover w/ jacket. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Clean text. Unread. Dust cover not price clipped. Touch of shelf wear. Green boards, brown spine, gold lettering. Nice copy. New mylar cover available on request. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Riverhead Books,U.S., United States, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594489726 ISBN 13: 9781594489723
Da: A Flare For Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book and jacket have light wear to the head and heel of the spine, else clean and tight. Signed on the title page in my presence by McBride. First edition, first printing. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Random House, New York, 2008
Da: 32.1 Rare Books + Ephemera, IOBA, ESA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine in fine dust jacket. Author is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird. McBride is well known for his 1995 memoir, the bestselling book The Color of Water, which describes his life growing up in a large, poor American-African family that was led by his white Jewish mother.
Editore: Riverhead Books, New York, N.Y., 2008
Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. [8], 359, [1] pages. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Inscription reads: To Tim, Thank you for your kind hospitality. Peace, James McBride. James McBride (born September 11, 1957) is an American writer and musician. He is the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird. McBride is well known for his 1995 memoir, the bestselling book The Color of Water, which describes his life growing up in a large, poor American-African family that was led by his white Jewish mother. McBride's mother was strict and the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi. His 2008 novel, Song Yet Sung, is about an enslaved woman who has dreams about the future, and a wide array of freed black people, enslaved people, and whites whose lives come together in the odyssey that surrounds the last weeks of this woman's life. Harriet Tubman served as an inspiration for the book, and it provides a fictional depiction of a code of communication that enslaved people used to help runaways attain freedom. The book, based on real-life events that occurred on Maryland's Eastern Shore, also featured the notorious criminal Patty Cannon as a villain. In 2012, McBride co-wrote and co-produced Red Hook Summer (2012) with Spike Lee. In July 2013, McBride co-authored Hard Listening (2013) with the rest of the Rock Bottom Remainders. In August 2013, The Good Lord Bird, a comedy novel, was released by Riverhead Books. The work details the life of notorious abolitionist John Brown. For this book, McBride won the 2013 National Book Award for fiction. Filled with rich history, and told in McBride's signature lyrical style, this book brings into full view a world long misunderstood in American fiction: slavery's haunting choices, pressing both whites and blacks to search for relief in a world where all seemed to lose their moral compass. Derived from a Kirkus review: The slave-owning culture of Maryland's eastern shore in the 1850s comprises the world of McBride's second novel. Recaptured runaway slave Liz Spocott, wounded by a musket blast and chained to fellow runaways in the attic of "trader"-crime boss Patty Cannon, learns "the Code" by which embattled slaves communicate and survive from a skeletal woman ("The old Woman With No Name") and, acting on a chance opportunity, escapes again. The novel then assumes the shape of a series of quests and pursuits. Liz wanders along a perilous route which she hopes will lead her to the Freedom Train, hence northward to safety-accompanied and bedeviled by prophetic "visions" that reach far into "the future of the colored race." The latter are often eerily compelling. Far more compelling are parallel tales: of the Woolman, a gigantic black who lives in a swamp and keeps an alligator named Gar; widowed landowner Kathleen Sullivan, unhinged by sexual longing for her handsome young slave Amber; and Denwood Long, a former slave-catcher lured out of retirement to return Liz to her irate owner Colonel Spocott. The book has great strengths. McBride views the "peculiar institution" of slavery from an impressive multiplicity of involved characters' and observers' viewpoints. He describes emotionally charged, hurried actions superbly, and he makes expert use of folklore, legend and the eponymous unsung song (which we do eventually hear). McBride has fashioned a myth of retribution and sacrifice. Explosively dramatic.
Editore: Riverhead Books, New York NY, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594489726 ISBN 13: 9781594489723
Da: Longs Peak Book Company, Loveland, CO, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Let McBride's beautiful language carry you back to his version of Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1850. Noble and profound.-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. This copy is a first printing, fine copy signed by McBride on the title page with a bright,price-intact dustjacket in clear mylar covering. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Riverhead Books, 2009
Da: Collectors Bookstore, Antwerpen, Belgio
Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Song Yet Sung Special Collection by James Mcbride. Published by Riverhead Books in 2009. Paperback. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in very fine condition.
Editore: Random House, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594489726 ISBN 13: 9781594489723
Da: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. New York: Random House [2008]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. NEW! Very fine/very fine in all respects, a pristine, unread copy. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on title page in month of publication, February 2008. Comes with mylar jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box with bubble wrap. Smoke-free shop. This book was purchased new and never opened except for author to sign. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Riverhead Books, 2008
ISBN 10: 9781594489 ISBN 13: 9789781594489
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.