Austin Doris Jean (19 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. The story of a young African-American woman as she adapts to the urban north of the 1940s and 1950s. Filled with unforgettable characters, the tale sticks with you long after the last page is turned. This copy has a bit of soil on the cover and the page edges have yellowed.…

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 1st PB EDITION, 1st PB PRINTING. This copy is VG; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight but edges are tanning, wear on bottom edge. The covers are also VG; intact, including very good color and design, but signs of sunning. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.…

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First/First. New American Library, NY, 1987, 324 pages. First/First in Very Good/Very Good+ condition, with uniform toning to text block, and front bottom edge of board is pushed. The DJ shows shelfwear, rubbing, and a bit of edge toning. Otherwise tight, square, clean, and unclipped. The Author has Signed, inscribed, and dated in year of publication on half title page. (please review photos). Called "brilliantly imagined.pain and joy of a black womans life.the black experience in America". All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Green and blue. Lards with gold lettering. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDSociology Very good. Minor creasing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover, dust jacket, 324 pp, slight edgewear to jacket, else a clean and near fine copy. Protected in a mylar cover. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition; First Printing. Slight foxing.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Title page. 324pp. Blue cloth spine with bright gilt title and pale green paper over boards. Pictorial Dust Jacket. "Doris Jean Austin is a conjurer of the written word" writes John Oliver Killens. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. …

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1987. July 1987. New American Library. 1st Printing. A Few Small Marks On Side Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 0453005381. 324 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Jacqueline Schuman. keywords: African American Literature Women America. DESCRIPTION - This brilliantly imagined, achingly alive novel about the pain and joy of a black woman's life captures the textures and tensions, love and rage, of the black experience in America. The urban North is the setting of AFTER THE GARDEN: jersey City, New Jersey, where the beautiful but inwardly divided heroine, Elzina Tompkins, learns the lessons of life and love in 1940s and '50s. Elzina's search for happiness and fulfillment is a journey on a tightrope stretched to the breaking point between two opposing poles. One is that of the woman who has raised her, her grandmother Rosalie, strong, proud, fiercely righteous, for whom any weakness is an unpardonable sin. The other is that of the exquisitely graceful, handsome, and free-spirited high school athlete, Jesse James, who becomes Elzina's husband and great love. Elzina, loving her husband for the very qualities she has been taught to condemn, is a superbly complex, heartbreakingly real creation. Unforgettable too, is Jesse, who, wild as his namesake, cannot understand the core of resistance in Elzina that his charm and passion cannot melt. As Elzina and Jesse struggle to balance the strength of their love against the weight of their differences, their emotional fallout reaches an explosive intensity in their son, Charles. Finally only Elzina can heal the wounds of her family as she overcomes conflict, abandonment, heartbreak, and near-madness to emerge into stunning and triumphant womanhood. Probing relationships seared and ignited by love and sacrifice, joy and despair, this emotionally charged novel brings to life a cast of wonderful characters whose individuality and strength give them a special, tough beauty. Doris Jean Austin, prize-winning writer, tells us a fascinating story that vibrates with power and daring. inventory #10435 A Few Small Marks On Side Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (1987). 8vo. 1st edition. Slight toning and minor scratching to textblock edges. Slight marking to f.f.e.p. along hinge. Slight bumping and soiling to bottom edges of barely rubbed boards with slight bumping, wear, and minor exposure to bottom forecorners. Approx. 1/4in.x1in. darkened piece of tape across spine of dust jacket verso. Minor scraping to edges, forecorners, and spine ends of sightly toned d.j. with slightest bumping/creasing to bottom forecorners. D.j. covered with removeable plastic covering by previous owner. VG/VG.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second Printing. 324pp. Blue cloth spine with bright gilt title and pale green paper over boards. Pictorial Dust Jacket. "Doris Jean Austin is a conjurer of the written word" writes John Oliver Killens. INSCRIBED on f.f.p.: "11-9-88 Dear Gene-- Here's Jersey City '40s, & 50s! See what you think. Doris Jean." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Hardcover.…

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

paperback. Condition: Like New. UNCORECCTED PROOF. ***Please Read*** UNCORECCTED PROOF - NAL PUBLISHER - 1987 PRINTING - No marks on text - My shelf location 23-F-26*.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. ix, 246 p., [4] leaves of plates : illus. (some col.) ; 27 cm. ; ISBN 0517515881 ; LCCN 74077482 ; LOC no TT879.B3 M44 1974 ; Dewey 746.4/1 ; OCLC 1092698 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; "Dona Z. Meilach has an uncanny ability for selecting and presenting iron so that people can better appreciate what they are viewing. She has written over fifty-five inspirational art books, scores of articles on sculpture in many media, and lives in Carlsbad, California. " ; Views basket weaving as an art form and details the use of coiling, twining, macrame, and crochet to create various containers. ; Contents: Basketry A modern art form -- Materials -- Sources and ideas for basketry forms and designs -- Coiling : The sampler -- Lady squaw stitch -- Figure eight stitch -- Lace stitch -- Adding beads -- Adding weft and splicing core -- Adding colors -- Adding feathers -- Finishing end of coil -- Shaping -- More wrapoping methods -- More ways to begin a coil -- Imbrication -- The Buttonhole or blanket stitch -- Double split stitch -- Embroidery -- Knotless netting or looping -- Exposed core -- Added elements -- Assembling parts -- Additional ideas for basket coiling for sculptural and other forms -- A gallery of basketry examples -- Coiled jewelry -- Twining -- Simple twining and variations -- How to develop a twined basket -- Weaving -- Basic weaving procedures -- Macrame -- The clove hitch -- Verticle clove hitsch -- Square knotting -- Crochet -- For your information -- Suppliers -- Index. ; artwork: Gayle Luchessa, Eileen Barnard, Steve Brixner, marie Waters, Louise Robbins, Royce Zimon, Linda Ann Valeri, Geoff Welch, Lew Gilchrist, Joan Austin, Gary Trentham, Jean Lamon, Bonnie Zimmer, Gyongy Laky, Kathryn McCardle, Budd Stainaker, Suellen Glashausser, Lucy Traber, Molly Baross, kathy Malec, Helen Hennessey, Helen Gilling, Joan Sterrenberg, Julie Connell, Renie Adams, Pat Malarchar, Mary Lou Higgins, Ferne Jacobs, I. Richard Daehnert, Pat Williams, Budd Stainaker, Gladamay Henrikson, David F. Silverman, Mary Baughn, Doris Hoover, Gwynne Lott, Stana Coleman, Barbara Kincaid, Jan Cohen, Lucy H. Traber, Debbie F. Dunn, Jean Singerman-Weiss, Carol Danley, Lucele Counts, Virginia H. Barber, Frank Kong, Ruby Conaway, Gloria Bornstein, Jan Mjelde Wader, Libby Platus, Lucelle Coutts, Wolfram Krank, Joyce Barnes, Dee Nemeth, Lillian Donald, Theo Ho, Diane Sheehan, Diane Itter, Rubin Steinberg, Lori Kratovil, Teri Holdcraft, Esther Gotthoeffer, Judith I. Kleinberg, Pamela Stearn ; FINE. Book.…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. (2 tiny specks of foxing at top edge. Light trace of foxing on front flap & paste-downs. ) Well received FIRST novel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 324 pages.