BLACK LIKE ME
by Griffin, John Howard
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- G+
- Seller
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Watkins Glen, New York, United States
Item Price
NZ$10.29NZ$8.23
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About This Item
Signet/New American Library. G+. circa 1965. Signet Book Edition unabridged. Paperback; 18th Printing. Although copyright date shows 1961 I believe this to be printed a few years later because a zip code is shown with the publisher's address. Zip codes started being used about 1965. Normal open edge wear and slong cover hinges. Teeny piece missing from lower front corner and top rear by spine. Covers have a few light creases. Text is clean/tight with very light age browning. All edge red. Complete and unabridged. Author darkened his skin and set out to discover by personal experience the night side of Negro American life in the deep south in 1961. ; Good plus condition with normal usage showing. ; 157+ads pages .
Synopsis
John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) is known internationally as the author of two novels, Nuni and The Devil Rides Outside , five books and monographs on racism in addition to Black Like Me , a biography of Thomas Merton , three collections of photography, a volume of journals, two historical works on Texas, a musicological study, and The John Howard Reader . Born in Dallas, Texas, and educated in France, he served in the U.S. Air Force in the South Pacific, where an injury he received during a Japanese bombardment eventually resulted in the complete loss of his sight. In the 1950's he converted to Catholicism, married, and raised a family. In 1957, (after ten years of blindness) he miraculously regained his sight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Seneca Valley Used Books & Paper Collectibles
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25086
- Title
- BLACK LIKE ME
- Author
- Griffin, John Howard
- Format/Binding
- Paperback; 18th Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - G+
- Edition
- Signet Book Edition unabridged
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Signet/New American Library
- Date Published
- circa 1965
- Keywords
- Black Americana Negro Social Culture, Non-fiction Social Psychology, Social Behavior
- Bookseller catalogs
- Black Americana;
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