John Henry Roark Bradford's Novel and Play

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John Henry: Roark Bradford's Novel and Play

Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve shows handling with hand-soiling. John Henry Roark Bradford Ships with Tracking Number! May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service! Binding is Cloth Bds..

Sharp First Edition, First Printing of this classic story of the "Hercules" of the black community of the lower Mississippi. Original decorative green cloth with paper spine label has very minor surface wear and some dust shadowing along the edges. A small area on each paste-down has a bit of foxing but Square, tight and otherwise very clean throughout. Attractive unclipped wrapper has some edge and spine wear and a shallow front cover crease.

Spine is mildly tanned. Looks much better than a Very Good but we'll stay conservative. Protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. An excellent collectable copy and fairly uncommon in dust-wrapper. Frontispiece illustrated with a stunning color plate. Beautiful woodcuts throughout text and on half title page.

Pages clean, good condition.

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Off white endpapers illustrated in orange. Green cloth with design, silver label and black title on spine. Spine lightly faded and label torn. Woodcuts By J J Lankes. First Edition, so stated. Light tanning to end-ppers and some wear to gilt label on spine.

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Jacket has very minor chipping to the top, a couple of tiny closed tears and a very small bit of worming to the rear. Jacket toned and slightly rubbed. Cloud 9 Books Condition: The dust jacket is sun faded with minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. Russell Books Ltd Condition: Illustrated with woodcuts by J. Blue decorated cloth with paper title label on spine. Color illustrated dust jacket. The Literary Guild, Decorative hard covers, gold foil label on spine. Dust jacket is faded, edgeworn, now in mylar. Stated first edition on copyright page. Page ends are deckle-cut, dark-stained on top edge.

Patterned blue cloth, foil spine label. About Fine, in lightly worn dust jacket. The Old Mill Bookshop Published: About Fine, in lightly worn dust jacket Edition: Octavo standard book size. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact.

Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Very Good Condition Edition: Green patterned cloth covers with a gold label to the spine. The spine and rear cover egdes are sunned and the spine label slightly chipped. The contents are bright and complete. Hardback First edition 9.

John Henry: Roark Bradford's Novel and Play

Beige cloth with a black silhouette illustration, in dust wrapper. With seven of eight called for half - tone Illustrations of the play's set designs by Albert Johnson. With a beautiful illustrated two page title page printed in black and orange. The play was set to music by Jacques Wolfe. Wolfe has signed and inscribed this copy on the first leaf: First Edition; First Printing.

Book condition is Very Good; with a Good- dust jacket. Chips and tears to jacket. Owner name ink stamp to front end page. Text is clean and unmarked.

First Edition is stated. Two-color frontispiece, 31 illustrations throughout with decorated end papers and patterned boards. Evolving Lens Bookseller Published: Green patterned cloth-covered boards, gilt label on spine lettered in black. Mildly dust-soiled top edges, else fine in slighltly tanned, very good plus dust jacket, with minor dampstains to rear. Illustrated with 25 woodcuts by J. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket.

Light offsetting to title pages, no rubbing to corners or spine ends. Collectible - Very Good Edition: Very Good Very Good. Music composed by Jacques Wolfe, 8 stage sets by Albert Johnson.

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This was the production starring Paul Robeson. Top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket some small tears, creases at top, one chip at top of spine, spine age tanned with two small stains. Monroe Street Books Published: Very Good Very Good Edition: Very Good in boards, gold foil lable to spine wearing. Rare Book Cellar Published: Very Good in boards. This new edition is a windfall for scholars and students of folklore and African American literature. Introduction Bibliography for introduction Discography of recordings echoing the folk tradition in the novel Transcriptions of versions of the folk songs John Henry folk song bibliography John Henry bibliography, Present John Henry folk song discography, Roark Bradford Bibliography Reviews of the novel Reviews of the play Roark Bradford Chronology John Henry: Back of Town VII.

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