Country Place

1950. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First Printing. 190 pages. Text unmarked . Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. Signet 761. Black woman novelist born in New England and raised middle class. Her debut novel The STreet was the first novel by and African-American woman to sell more… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1948. First English edition. Small 8vo, pp. 223. Red cloth. Top edges spotted, ends of spine slightly scuffed, o/w a nice copy in little soiled dj. Petry (1908-1997) was born in Old Saybrook, CT, to a family of chemists. Her parents belonged to the black minority of the small town. Her father was a pharmacist and… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. 266pp, gray cloth boards with titles on spine and front board in black and thin green horizontal stripes running around the front board and spine of the volume. Back board is blank. Tape residue on front and rear pasted down endpapers. Stamp from previous bookshop on front free and rear pasted down endpaper. Text block is… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. 266pp, gray cloth boards with titles on spine and front board in black and thin green horizontal stripes running around the front board and spine of the volume. Back board is blank. Tape residue on front and rear pasted down endpapers. Stamp from previous bookshop on front free and rear pasted down endpaper. Text block is… Read more about this item

Northwestern University Press. Paperback. Crisp and clean condition. . Fine. Soft cover. 2019.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Originally published in 1947, Ann Petry's classic Country Place depicts a predominantly white community disillusioned by the indignities and corruption of small-town life. Accompanied by a new foreword from Farah Jasmine that builds on

Chatham, New Jersey: The Chatham Bookseller, 1971. Hardcover. Fine. Facsimile edition. Octavo. 266pp. Green cloth titled in gilt. Very near fine, issued without dustwrapper.

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN CO. BOSTON 1947. Fine. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Close to fine in a Vg.+ dj. (Shallow chipping at edges of dj. Spine faintly toned) Author's SECOND book. .

Canada: Signet 761, 1951. Solid with a thin reading crease along the spine on the front cover. The previous owner's name is on the first inside page.. 2nd Printing. Paperback. Very Good.

NY: Signet, 1950. First Signet printing. Small 8vo, pp. 190. Paper wraps. Cover slightly scuffed and soiled, o/w a VG tight copy.

London: Harborough, 1958. First Ace Books edition. Small 8vo, pp. 205. Paper wraps. Cover scuffed and soiled, o/w a VG copy.

New York: Signet, 1950. Book. Good. Mass Market Paperback. First Printing. Small tear at head of spine. Crease across upper right corner of cover. First Printing Thus.

NY: Signet Books, 1950. 190pp. Cover by Avati. Light wear, spine top frayed with small loss. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market. #761, Jan., First Printing.. Paperback. Good.

1 . Hardbound. 1st ed. Boston (Houghton Mifflin) 1947. A good copy.

Signet, 1950. Softcover. Very Good. #761, 1st Signet printing

New York: Signet, 1950. 4th Signet printing. Light creases to the spine. A little wear to the edges.. Paperback. Good+. Illus. by Avati.

Signet, January 1950. Paper Back. Acceptable. Crease to front cover towards spine from reading.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/No dust jacket. Second novel by the author of The Street.

Signet, 1950-01-01. Paperback. Good. 0.3937 in x 7.0866 in x 4.1339 in. 7th printing 1957

Paperback / softback. New. Originally published in 1947, Ann Petry's classic Country Place depicts a predominantly white community disillusioned by the indignities and corruption of small-town life. Accompanied by a new foreword from Farah Jasmine that builds on the legacy of a literary celebrity and one of the foremost African American writers of her time.