Swann Darius Leander (10 results)

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Acting Version. Clean, TIght, and Attractive. 40 pages. 0.0.

Stappled Wrappers. Condition: Good. A good+ copy of this verse choir. Front cover stamped with the name etc. of the prior owner and a bit of spotting/abrasions to the cover, else the text is wholly unmarked, pristine. A sharp copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. lightly used.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. New York: Friendship Press, 1963. 12mo. Stapled wrappers, 32 pp. One-act play about a mission hospital and its relationship to the Muslim society in which it exists. Swann has written many other plays, but this is a hard-to-find publication with production notes and clean, tight pages. Fine.…

Wrappers. Condition: Good. A good copy. Previous owner's name stamped to base of front cover panel; slight damp-stain to top of front cover, and bits of apparent glue residue to rear cover. 15 pp.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stapled soft cover. Faded, age tanned. Edge wear and light creasing. Firmly bound. Unmarked, faintly tanned pages. Good condition.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 16pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Near fine. The African-American author was born in Virginia, attended Johnson C. Smith University in North Carolina, and became a Presbyterian Church minister. He also taught in both China and India.

Softcover. First Edition in this format. Set condition is Very Good; bound in stapled wraps; housed in a Good- box. One edge of box lid is damaged and detached but present. Some toning, staining, creasing and wear to box. 28 booklets within box have minor toning and edge wear. Each booklet has a "Sample Copy" ink stamp on front cover. Texts are clean and unmarked. 10" x 7 3/4" x 2". Plays included: Barrier Between Yesterday and Tomorrow Beyond Good Friday Bridges in Bixton Caught Between Choose This Day The Circle Beyond Fear Comes the Moment to Decide Conquest in Burma The Crier Calls Te Dark Places Dedicated Dropout A Desert-A Highway Embark for Tomorrow Fear Not Fever-Heart Four Playettes A House for Marvin I Have Spoken To My Children No Certain Harbor One Man's Moon Remind Me To Live Roger Williams and Mary Take Any Street Three Glimpses East Voices of Mass and Capital A Walk Without Fear Where the World Begins.…

15p. staplebound booklet, central page loose from the staples but present, covers worn. A play about a Black family's experience confronting racism. The author Swann, a Black Presbyterian civil rights activist, later became the lead plaintiff in the landmark case Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. The Supreme Court?s 1971 decision in this case found that busing was an acceptable means of desegregating public schools.…

15p. staplebound booklet, minor creasing, Friendship Press stamp on front wrap otherwise in very good condition. A play about a Black family's experience confronting racism. The author Swann, a Black Presbyterian civil rights activist, later became the lead plaintiff in the landmark case Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. The Supreme Court's 1971 decision in this case found that busing was an acceptable means of desegregating public schools. …