hughes langston mccann gerald (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. McCann, Gerald (illustrator). Octavo, hardcover, VG ex school library copy in red boards. No dj. b/w illustrations. 203 pp. A gallery of sixteen biographies of some of the most influential and outstanding African Americans in U.S. history, including Crispus Attucks, the first man to fall in the Revolutionary War; Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas, anti-slavery activists; Matt Henson, the first man to stand on the North Pole, and more.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. McCann, Gerald (illustrator). First Edition Later Printing. Part of this publisher's Famous Biographies for Young People series, this YA book presents the stories of 16 Black Americans, including explorers, pioneers, warriors, abolitionists, adventurers, aviators, & one brave woman (Harriet Tubman). Written by the prolific "Poet of the Negro People" & leader of the Harlem Renaissance, with pen-and-ink sketches of each hero drawn by Gerald McCann. In 202 pp, with Index. A First Edition, 22th printing, from 1958, this hardcover 8vo has red cloth-covered boards pictorially stamped & lettered in black to front & spine. Condition is Good+ an Ex-Lib copy with the usual stamps & markings & light soil to fore edge from previous readers. Else, quite clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white & unmarked, except for the Table of Contents, which has some erased pencil check marks, & some ink spots in front matter. The price-clipped DJ is Near Fine, as it has been protected under library mylar, which is still intact, but glued inside both covers. 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); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Gerald McCann (illustrator). 1st Edition. Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover is in very good condition (Ex-Library, Library Card on the back of the last page, library stamp on the bottom of the author's page and on the Copyright Page, ink markings on the inside of the binding of the Dedication Page/Copyright Page/back side of the last page, yellowed from previous tape on the FFEP and the last page and unable to see the condition of the covers and spine due to the inside flaps of the front and back covers are taped). Dust jacket is in very good condition (clipped corners on the inside flaps of the front and back covers, torn at the bottom of the spine, library markings written in black ink on the bottom of the spine, rubbed/soiled on the front and back covers and spine and minor edge wear). Brodart protected. 202 pages with black and white illustrations. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Sixteen biographies of some of the most important and outstanding African Americans in U.S. history, from the 16th century to the middle of the 20th, including the explorer Esteban; Crispus Attucks, the first man to fall in the Revolutionary War; Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas, anti-slavery activists; Matt Henson, the first man to stand on the North Pole; frontiersman James P. Beckwourth; Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., contemporary air ace and others.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy of the first edition hardcover in jacket (jacket has some chips to spine tips and corners with creasing to edges).