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Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Published by Little Brown and Company, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.9.
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Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 402 pages with illustrations. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") issued in green with silver lettering to spine. 1st first edition. In 1981, Gordon Parks turned to fiction with Shannon, a novel about Irish immigrants fighting their way up the social ladder in turbulent early 20th-century New York. Parks' writing accomplishments include novels, poetry, autobiography, and non-fiction including photographic instructional manuals and filmmaking books. Parks also wrote a poem called "The Funeral". A self-taught pianist, Parks composed Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1953) and Tree Symphony (1967). In 1989, he composed and choreographed Martin, a ballet dedicated to civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Parks also performed as a jazz pianist. Parks was also a campaigner for civil rights; subject of film and print profiles, notably Half Past Autumn in 2000; and had a gallery exhibit of his photo-related, abstract oil paintings in 1981. Condition: Previous owner's stamps on front end paper and paste downs, corners gently bumped and rubbed. Jacket corners and spine heal rubbed. Jacket corners rubbed, closed tear at spine with crease, edge wear with some closed tears else a very good copy in like jacket.
Published by Little, Brown, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Very Good/ Very Good.
Published by Little, Brown, 1st Ed., New York
Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. dj/w small tears on edges.
Published by Little, Brown, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine jacket.
Published by Little, Brown And Company, Boston, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine. 1st.
Published by Little, Brown and Co., 1981
Seller: The Story Shop, Elwood, IN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 402 pages.
Published by Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1981
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. VG/ DJ has wear and tear on edges and spine.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Book First Edition
Hardcover. 402p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. Novel. Fort Scott, Kansas-born African American writer, photographer, and filmmaker.
Published by Boston: Little Brown, 1981. dj, 1981
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Historical novel, the story of 2 families in New York - one Irish American, one black - during the early years of the 20th century, by the noted African-American photographer, poet and film-maker. Very good + in a very good - dustjacket (bookplate and prev owner's name, several short tears to the dj - but a nice tight copy.).
Published by Boston Little Brown 1981., 1981
Seller: Pettler & Lieberman, Booksellers, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
advance reading copy, cocked, else very good in special wraps. 1st edition.
Published by Little, Brown, Boston, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First edition. 402pp. 24 cm.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Good Hardcover with dustjacket, first edition 1981.
Published by Boston: Little Brown, 1981. dj, 1981
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Novel by the noted African-American photographer, poet and film-maker. 402 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket.(corners bumped.).
Published by Little, Brown, Boston, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Published by Boston: Little Brown, 1981. dj, 1981
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Novel by the noted African-American photographer, poet and film-maker. 402 pp. Near fine in a very good dustjacket (few pages in interior bumped, some edgewear to dj.).
Published by Little, Brown, Boston, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good ex-library with stamp on title in a very good dustwrapper with flaps taped.
Published by Little, Brown, Boston, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good with edges slightly fading, spine a bit cocked in an about very good dustwrapper with three inch chip on top edge of front panel.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Published by Boston: Little Brown, 1981. dj, 1981
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover first edition - First printing. Novel by the noted African-American photographer, poet and film-maker. 402 pp. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. A lovely tight copy of this book.
Published by Little, Brown, BOSTON, 1981
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG++. First Edition. Remainder mark on top edge of book. Tight, clean copy in dustwrapper that shows one tiny closed tear to top of front panel. Overall a very nice copy of this first edition by the African-American Author/Photographer.
Published by Little Brown & Co, Boston, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good. green cloth, grey papered boards, mylar-wrapped dust jacket, 402 pp, first edition owner's name stamped on front endpaper. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped octavo.
Published by Little Brown and Company; (1981), Boston, 1981
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hard Cover. First Edition. First printing, very good in a very good dust jacket. Front endpaper has been removed; lower corners of boards are bumped. There is a little soiling to the page edges. The jacket has small tears and a little wear at edges. Inscribed by the author on the second front endpaper. Parks is well known African-American photographer, filmmaker, poet and author. Signed by Author.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Fading on the boards thus very good in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with some fading and edgewear.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. About fine with slight fading on the board edges in a fine dust jacket with slight edgewear.
Published by Little Brown, Boston, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 402 pages. First edition, first printing. A story set in New York early in the 20th century about a young woman who marries a poor man instead of a richer one. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Published by Little, Brown: Boston, 1981
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
9.25 x 5.75, wraps, 397 pp, vg. UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston Toronto, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Book First Edition Signed
Cloth and boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition [no printing indicated]. SIGNED by the Author on the front free endpaper, tall 8vo, green 1/8th cloth with silver lettering over pale green boards, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a mottled woman's face, handsome photo of Parks on rear panel, 402 pages. Weight: 1 lb. 15 oz. UNCOMMON SIGNED, solid copy without marks by previous owners. Principal defect is a series of smoothed previously dogeared pages (e.g., at pp.51, 65, 79, 103, 121, 131, 145, 155, 177, 241. 331). Dust jacket has light soil and edgewear. Shannon is a novel about Irish immigrants fighting their way up the social ladder in turbulent early 20th-century New York. Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970sā "particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americansā "and in glamour photography.