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IF WE MUST DIE
by Edwards, Junius
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1963. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First edition of this novel about an African American Korean War veteran's experiences of violence while trying to exercise his right to vote in the segregated South. IF WE MUST DIE is Junius Edwards's first novel, expanded from his earlier short story "Liars Don't Qualify." Titled after the Claude McKay poem of the same name, IF WE MAY DIE presents the grim story of a Black man who returns home from the Korean War to violent racism in the US South. This is a scarce work; the Blockson Collection holds a later reprint, but not this first edition. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original red and tan cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Original unclipped ($2.95) pictorial dust jacket designed by Ellen Raskin. 138 pages. A few pencil marks throughout. Jacket with light edgewear, spine with mild sunning; a touch of foxing to verso. Binding with a bit of shelfwear, slight bowing of boards; a bit of foxing to edges. A sound, clean copy.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45001
- Title
- IF WE MUST DIE
- Author
- Edwards, Junius
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- 20th century,Post-WWII,1960s,US American,African American author,African American subject,Civil Rights
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About the Seller
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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