Lawd Today
by Wright, Richard
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Avon Books, 1963. First Mass Market Paperback Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Good+. Fiction about a "hilarious, terrifying, & unforgettable one-day odyssey" in the life of one Jake Jackson, a postal clerk in Depression-era Chicago. A local newspaper review said that Wright "illumine[s] the Negro's world with charges of lightning given to very few artists of any color." Orig. published in hardcover in 1963, this is the FIRST Avon mass market paperback edition (#s126), 1st printing, in 224 pages. Condition is Good+: completely clean & unmarked inside, pages showing moderate tanning, heavier around edges. Binding strong, straight, & uncreased. The front cover has a faded magic marker smudge under author's first name, fading, light soil, & a creased bottom-outer corner. Nicely protected in new mylar collector bag free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022526
- Title
- Lawd Today
- Author
- Wright, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Mass Market Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN CHICAGO ILLINOIS DEPRESSION GAMBLING FICTION DRINKING VINTAGE PAPERBACK
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage Paperbacks; Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / African/Black Americans;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- 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...