Book by Forrest Leon
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Vendeur : Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat de la jaquette : dj. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 1138 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with white lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "32.50." Bumping to head and tail of spine. Bumping to edges of dust jacket. Rubbing to dust jacket. Mild cocking to spine. Mild soiling to text block. Shelved in Case 6. 1415445. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. N° de réf. du vendeur 1415445
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Vendeur : Plot Twist, Baltimore, MD, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Richard Hunt (illustrateur). 1st Edition. ** TRUE FIRST EDITION, 1992 EDITION INSCRIBED ** Distributed for Another Chicago Press exclusively by Independent Literary Publishers Association (please see photos) Stated CHICAGO PRESS, very important if you want a rare copy of this book, most copies were destroyed in a warehouse fire. This Pulitzer-nominated novel had a first printing of only 1500 copies. On Christmas Day, 1992, an electrical fire in the publisher's office damaged all the remaining copies, Additional copies were published in 1993, still great copies!! But this is truly a rare book and signing. Dust jacket and boards are Fine to As New, No smudging or spotting to edges. Solid text block and endpapers, pages are clean, page corners are sharp. Overall the best copy we could find and we always enjoyed his book readings and signings. Enjoy!! Inscribed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1773506688018
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Vendeur : Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, Etats-Unis
Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1992. First Edition. Thick octavo (23.5cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 1138pp. Light edge wear, brief fingersoil and foxing to textblock edges, spine a bit cocked, else a Very Good and sound example. Signed by the author on title page. Leon Forrest's magnum opus, lauded as "the War and Peace of African-American literature" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Most of the copies from this first edition were destroyed in a warehouse fire. Norton subsequently came out with a reissue the following year. N° de réf. du vendeur 47488
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Vendeur : Plot Twist, Baltimore, MD, Etats-Unis
Richard Hunt (illustrateur). ** TRUE FIRST EDITION, 1992 EDITION INSCRIBED ** Distributed for Another Chicago Press exclusively by Independent Literary Publishers Association (please see photos) Stated CHICAGO PRESS, very important if you want a rare copy of this book, most copies were destroyed in a warehouse fire. This Pulitzer-nominated novel had a first printing of only 1500 copies. On Christmas Day, 1992, an electrical fire in the publisher's office damaged all the remaining copies, Additional copies were published in 1993, still great copies!! But this is truly a rare book and signing. Dust jacket and boards are Fine to As New, No smudging or spotting to edges. Solid text block and endpapers, pages are clean, page corners are sharp. Overall the best copy we could find and we always enjoyed his book readings and signings. Enjoy!! N° de réf. du vendeur 054
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Vendeur : Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : fine. Cover art by sculptor Richard Hunt (illustrateur). First edition. Thick 8vo, 1138pp., gray cloth. Laid in, archivally, is Forrest's obituary. This Pulitzer-nominated novel had a first printing of only 1500 copies. On Christmas Day, 1992, an electrical fire in the publisher's office damaged all the remaining copies, of which about ten smoke-damaged copies were salvaged. Forrest was an English Professor at Northwestern University. He inscribed this copy, "Love to "Connie [Reuveni] / good luck with your bookstore / Best Wishes / Leon Forrest." Connie owned the Booknook Parnassus used bookstore in Evanston, so this is not one of the smoke-damaged copies. Critic John Cawelti called this, "The ULYSSES of Chicago's South Side." It covers a week in February, 1966. in the life of Joubert Jones, and "as a way of re-creating the spirit of those times, . Forget the other hype. This is a legitimately rare modern first edition ! Blurbed by 2 winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature ( Saul Bellow and Toni Morrison). Cover art by sculptor Richard Hunt. NOTE: the new 2023 edition incorporates hundreds of editorial changes Forrest wanted included here, but wer not. N° de réf. du vendeur DEMO015147I
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