Gilbert Herman Cromwell (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. first edition, first printing. A fine clean tight unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket with some edgewear/.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. Good copy with clean, unmarked pages. Ex-library but with no exterior library markings. The dust jacket shows some moderate wear and a bit of color loss along spine ends and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing. Used hardback, stated second printing, in very good, almost like new condition. Maroon leather-like (mottled effect) boards with gold gilt lettering on the spine, have very minor edgewear, slightly bumped, rubbed at corners and spine edges. 381 pages text very clean and tight. Colorful pictorial dust jacket has only minimal edgewear/handling. "The Black American Council is hereby authorized to negotiate with the United States of America for the creation of a separate and independent state.for American citizens of African descent." With these startling words, Herman Cromwell Gilbert sets the theme for his new novel, The Negotiations, and draws the reader into one of the most exciting experiences in modern American fiction.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. DJ has slight wear to the front edges and uneven sun-toning. Foxing to the top edge ends, slight foxing to the outside page ends and to the front endpapers. Private bookplate on the front endpaper. ; Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, signed "Gilbert.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. Black sci-fi novel. Signed by author. In a Brodart cover. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Straight, secure spine. Clean interiors. Light stain to page edge. Square page corners. Chipping to dust jacket corners. Light scuffing to dust jacket edges. Closed tear to back cover. Scrape to back cover. Chipping to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 349 pages. First Edition. African-American author. Novel about struggles for civil rights and school integration in late 1940's Southern Illinois. About near fine, with faint foxing to endpapers and page edges, in very good plus dustjacket with light wear and rubbing and some foxing to flaps folds. Inscribed by Gilbert to another writer in 1970. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. African American author's first novel, set in a fictitious town in southern Illinois, an account of the early civil rights movement and the fight against segregation and racism in the years just after World War II. Gilbert, born in Arkansas in 1923, commented that his experiences "represent, in capsule, the 20th century transformation of Afro-American life from rural to urban." He moved to Illinois in 1937, served in the Army Air Corps in World War II, worked as a farm hand, mill worker, dining car waiter, and newspaper reporter and editor and political organizer and labor union educator. This book was one of the first two published by Path Press, a Black owned publisher which he and Bennett J. Johnson co-founded in 1969. While this novel achieved some critical success, it did not sell well. Gilbert received many honors and recognition of his activities - including the Alice Browning Award for excellence in the literary arts. Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page. Laid in is a single folded sheet with a typed poem by Gilbert and dated in 1976. 349 pp. Very good in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a good only dust jacket. (tape ghosts on endpapers from dj being taped down - rubbing and wear to dj with some loss at the ends of the spine, tape reinforcement to the interior).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. 381pp. Fine in very good dust jacket with a few short creased tears and moderate surface wear. Herman Gilbert was an African-American born in Arkansas and resident of Chicago, worked at numerous jobs from farm hand to Congressional assistant. A political novel, set in the near future, dealing with the theme of an independent Black state.…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 2nd printing, fine hardcover and dust jacket.

First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; [8],349pp. General shelf wear to jacket extremities, else Fine in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.00 on front flap), mildly rubbed at extremities, Near Fine. Novel, with a southern Illinois setting, dealing with African-American civil rights, labor, and racism in the years just after WW2. The African-American author, born in Marian, Arkansas, served in WW2 and worked as a farm hand, mill worker, dining car waiter, and finally political organizer and labor union educator. A somewhat uncommon work, and one of the first titles issued by the Path Press, one of the first Black-owned trade publishers in the U.S. …