Edith Jackson by Rosa Guy (18 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. 9780241271032 **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. New York. 1992. February 1992. Dell. 1st Dell Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0440211379. 181 pages. paperback. keywords: Caribbean Trinidad Literature Women African American America World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Edith Jackson lived in Peekskill, New York, with her three sisters, two foster brothers, and her foster mother, Mother Peters. Soon she would be eighteen, and when she left high school, she swore, she would take her sisters and give them a home of their own. But then she met Mrs. Bates, a retired lawyer, who laughed at Edith's ambition and gave her the reasons she felt Edith would fail. Edith hated Mrs. Bates for her preaching and wanted to stop visiting her comfortable, disheveled home. But if she did, she would lose her chance to see ' 'Mr. Brown again, Mrs. Bates's handsome nephew. Meanwhile, Edith's sisters were making plans of their own - and they were not the same as Edith's. Bessie with the mussy eyes had begun to cuddle up to Uncle Daniels, Mother Peters' friend, and bright Minnie was hoping Mrs. Cramer, the mother of her best friend, would adopt her. Only Suzy, like Edith herself, seemed to have nowhere to go. Finally Mr. Brown gave Edith the loving she wanted, and she set her sights on marriage and a real home for her sisters. With insight and sensitivity, Rosa Guy tells the moving story of Edith's search for and security. Her compassion for the abandoned ones among us overwhelms this realistic novel about the failures of the institutions of America, whether church, school, or welfare. Ultimately, Edith learns, people must take the responsibility for shaping their own destinies, as the structure of caste and class in society leaves each of us on our own. inventory #47918.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. 187 pages. First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz 1979. Published in Puffin Books 1985. Cover illustration by Caroline Binch. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Children's::Puffin; Teens & Young Adult; Young Adult Fiction. ISBN: 0140317864. ISBN/EAN: 9780140317862. Inventory No: 001326.

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Hardback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Original publisher's maroon cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. ISBN: 0575026073 Pages: 192 Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. A near fine copy in brown paper covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, the top and tail of the spine slightly bumped. Paper slightly browned and foxed at the edges. No inscriptions. ***In a near fine, bright dustwrapper. No tears. Not price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £3.75 net. The orange print on the spine has faded to yellow (see scan). ***BIOGRAPHY: Rosa Guy was raised in the USA from the age of seven and now lives in New York. She immigrated to Harlem, New York in 1932. Soon after, her parents, Henry and Audrey Cuthbert, died. After, she and her sister went to many foster homes. She quit school at age fourteen and took a job to help support her family. ***During World War II she joined the American Negro Theatre. She studied theatre and writing at the University of New York. Most of her books are about the dependability of family members that care and love each other. ***Her works include: Bird at My Window (1966), Children of Longing (1971), The Friends (1973), Ruby (1976), Edith Jackson (1978), The Disappearance (1979), Mirror of Her Own (1981), A Measure of Time (1983), New Guys Around the Block (1983), Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog (1984), My Love, My Love, or the Peasant Girl (1985), and I Heard a Bird Sing (1987). ***A near fine copy of an uncommon first edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Jacket painting by Leo and Diane Dillon (illustrator). First printing. Owner-inscribed by C.O.R.E. member and literary critic Doris Innis. Additional author inscription reads, 'In Peace and Love Rosa Guy 7/12/78'. Very good book; very good dust jacket Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound yellow cloth spine and brown boards, gilt spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, 187 pp.

Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. New York: Viking Press, [1978]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($8.95); [4],187pp. Jacket a bit worn along margins with one-inch tear at top edge of upper panel affecting text, textblock margins quite foxed; Good to Very Good overall. Signed by the author on title page. The third volume in a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels for young adult readers by Rosa Guy, the Trinidadian-born author and cofounding member of the Harlem Writers Guild.