Masters Dew by Roumain Jacques (28 results)

Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 48797th. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: Fair.

Condition: acceptable. All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable.

Condition: good. Fast & Free Shipping â" Good condition. It may show normal signs of use, such as light writing, highlighting, or library markings, but all pages are intact and the book is fully readable. A solid, complete copy that's ready to enjoy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price.

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Collier Books paperback edition. Translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook. 192pp. Ink notation to the first page (remaining text unmarked) with creasing to the edges, very good with bright white pages.

Heinemann Paperback Number 12 in the 'Caribbean Writers Series' with illustrated covers. 'A classic Haitian novel telling the story of Manuel, who returns to his drought-stricken village and attempts to unite its divided community and find a new source of water.' The book measures 7½" x 4¾" and it has 192 pages. The covers and contents are in excellent condition. VG++.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine copy in mass market paperback. Some dust-staining to top edge of page block.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Condition: Very Good; Hardcover in dustjacket. Gray cloth. Condition is Very Good in a Good only dustjacket. Book has clean covers and a tight, square binding. Jacket is clean and bright with a couple chips missing at top of front cover and a closed tea on back.…

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Very Good in Good jacket; book is clean, straight, unmarked, but pages are somewhat age-darkened; Hardcover in jacket, 8vo, 180 pp. . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Reynal & Hitchcock January 1947 Binding: Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 180pp. Pale gray boards, red titles on spine. Book is solid, clean and unmarked, in a thin dust jacket with a bold pink front panel and the expected edgewear. Original price on front flap. Translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook. Haitian novelist and intellectual Roumain's most enduring work. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Beige cloth with red lettering on spine. Boards faded and soiled. Pages darkened. Dust jacket stained and discolored with chips and tears.

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

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. 1971 Edition.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

First edition of this outstanding Haitian novel which tells of Manuel's struggle to keep his little community from starvation during drought. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the translator Langston Hughes in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "For Michael Alexander- Sincerely, Langston Hughes New York, Sept. 12, 1947. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook. The genre of the peasant novel in Haiti reaches back to the nineteenth century and this is one of the outstanding examples. Manuel returns to his native village after working on a sugar plantation in Cuba only to discover that it is stricken by a drought and divided by a family feud. He attacks the resignation endemic among his people by preaching the kind of political awareness and solidarity he has learned in Cuba. He goes on to illustrate his ideas in a tangible way by finding water and bringing it to the fields through the collective labor of the villagers. In this political fable, Roumain is careful to create an authentic environment and credible characters.…

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180 pp. 8vo. Condition: Near Fine. dj. First edition. First edition. 180 pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the ffep: "For Noël - Sincerely, Langston. New York, June, 1947." Hughes met Noël Sullivan in May 1932 while on a lecture tour, and the two developed a very close friendship. "The man and all he stood for endeared him to Hughes, and for a quarter of a century he was the poet's most trusted confidant. [.] as close a friend as any relative Hughes ever had." (Berry, Faith, Before & Beyond Harlem: A Biography of Langston Hughes, p. 149-150). This was a two-way street, as "Hughes's immediate impact on Noël Sullivan was.dramatic" (Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I, p. 239). Sullivan helped sustain Hughes with occasional financial gifts, he hosted him on most of his visits to California, often gave Hughes the use of his farm in Carmel, where Hughes wrote his first collection of short stories, The Ways of White Folks (1934), which was dedicated to Sullivan. Roumain had been inspired by Hughes and wrote a poem dedicated to him, and some years later Hughes reciprocated writing one dedicated to Roumain, which was read out by Canada Lee at a Roumain memorial service in New York in 1944 (Rampersad, Life, Vol. II, p. 106). For this volume, Mercer Cook, an academic, had done preliminary work on the translation, which was finished by Hughes: "Working diligently with his Haitian biographer, René Piquion, Langston scanned every line of both the original novel and Cook's draft in order to achieve Roumain's folk-poetic rhythms and to avoid a long glossary of foreign terms; 'I have also tried to simplify a bit the peasant language, keeping at the same time its archaic and bold quality'" (Rampersad, Vol. II, p. 119). Original blue cloth. Near fine, some toning to endpapers; in dust jacket with some chipping around the edges. Signed.…