Mcmahon Francis E (15 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 334 pages. Ex-college library marks, some staining and wear to the covers; pages yellowed; a decent reading copy overall. The jacket is creased, worn and torn; taped inside. Contents are World Revolution; Whence the Crisis?; The Failures of the Christians; The Failures of the Liberals; Christianity and Democracy; Philosophy and Reconstruction; The Emerging World; America in the Emerging World. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Theology & Religion; Inventory No: 233743.…

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Black cloth covers with gold lettering on spine which is bright. Spine is slightly cocked. Covers exhibit light wear and bumping to corners and spine ends. Light wear and soiling to edges. Moderate soiling and shelf wear to covers. Text is slightly yellowed due to age. Otherwise clean and unmarked. Hinges are tight. DJ is in a protective mylar cover with multiple small tears, chips and creasing to back cover upper and lower edges, spine ends and corners. Small chips on hinges. Heavy shelf wear and soiling to back covers, back hinges and spine. Moderate soiling and shelf wear to front cover. "Appraises frankly the failure of many Christians and liberals to measure up to their full obligations." All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-library unless explicitly described as such.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

1945 334 pages binding (fair/poor) pages (good).

Condition: binding (fair) pages (good). 1945 334 pages.

Condition: (good/fair). 1945 334 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Ex-Libris and is stamped as such. Foxing is present on one or more pages. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Periodical. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers toned with moderate wear and soiling, several leaves with creased corners and one with a very short tear, sound and about good; the text is bright and the paper supple A single but notable issue from this influential and important digest, which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications, there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue is especially notable for printing the recurring column "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience," this month penned by Langston Hughes: a sad story in which a teenaged Hughes is harassed in a Cleveland cafeteria, as well as Zora Neal Hurston's "Beware the Begging Joints" (condensed from *American Mercury*). Also prints "Does Interracial Marriage Succeed" by heavyweight champion Joe Louis; "Can the Negro Afford Birth Control?" by Dr. Julian Lewis; a four-page "condensation" from Walter White's book *The Rising Wind* (on the status of Black troops in the European Theater after a personal visit); and the monthly column "If I Where a Negro," this month penned by Francis E. McMahon. McMahon had recently been the subject of major controversy when he was fired from Notre Dame University (with encouragement from the Vatican, it turned out much later) for speaking out in favor of the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. An important issue of an important magazine; early issues are uncommon.…