Editor Merrel Daniel Booker (2 results)
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Editor-Merrel Daniel Booker Sr.; Editor-Erma Barbour Booker; Editor-Merrel Daniel Booker Jr.; Editor-Sue Booker
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, CanadaComic World
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
£ 9.76
£ 5.98 shippingShips from Canada to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. VG minus Dust Jacket. First Edition By This Publisher. 172 pages. weight = 405 grams "Short prose pieces and poetry by a wide variety of young African Americans, including a number of poems by Pearl Cleage when enrolled at Howard Fine Arts. Prizes were awarded for this collection and Cleage tied for…second place. "Dustjacket = Minor staining to bottom edge; edge chipping; surface scratching small piece missing from backcover; Book = Staining to front cover; water staing to upper right corner of book; sticker residue to inside backcover; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William H. Harris. (illustrator). Book.
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Wagon Tongue Books, Linden, AB, CanadaWagon Tongue Books
Contact seller2-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 21.27
£ 23.48 shippingShips from Canada to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Hardcover. Condition: VG++. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First (English). The Bookers collected and edited this 162 page (text only) work that speaks to the `black experience. The writers represent prisoners, workers and academics - i.e. a BROAD range of views and talents. There are 9 sections to the book and some of those are he…aded: ` In the Ghetto Maze', ` Teachers, I've Tried', and ` Life - Death - With Tones and Half Tones Between'. Notes on authors, the Bookers and artists at back - 10 pages. Each section of the book is lead off by a B/W illus. - e.g. `United' (p. 74) - ink drawing by Wiliam Battle. Cond: BLACK boards with green and red (spine) lettering. Dark brown paper wrapper over with a black man's portrait by William Harris III. Former is bright, clean and tight with NO wear. Sticker residue and (pen) marks on end paper (brown). D.J. is lightly worn at edges - esp. top edge w/ one 1 inch tear. Sli. chipped and one tear back. Good at spine, bright and clean. Not price clipped. No names nor marks - internal. Tight in binding. FIRST edition. Quote: (p. 62) " Inside of me is good, but the outside of me is bad. When I get in my devilish moods, the inside of me explodes and I break bad with other people. Inside . ." (Rudolph Douglass - What Am I Really Like Inside) Size: 8vo. Miriam McGee et al (illustrator).
