Youngblood
by Killens
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good- Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London, England: Bodley Head, 1956. First British edition. Hardcover. Good/Good- Dust Jacket. First British edition, 1956. good+, lettering on spine lightly rubbed. Good unclipped dust jacket, with a 1/2" chip at head, minor chipping to corners and light uneven dust soil. Killens was an important figure in the Black Arts Movement; African-American civil rights activist; creator of the Black Writerââ_x0082_‰_x0084_¢s Conference. Around 1950, Killens co-founded with Rosa Guy and others a writers' group that became the Harlem Writers Guild (HWG). Youngblood, his first novel, dealing with a black Georgia family in the early 1900s, was read and developed at HWG meetings in members' homes. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book House in Dinkytown (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 245029
- Title
- Youngblood
- Author
- Killens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good- Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British edition
- Publisher
- Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1956
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- AFRAMER LITERA
Terms of Sale
The Book House in Dinkytown
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About the Seller
The Book House in Dinkytown
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
About The Book House in Dinkytown
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...