Freedom Road
by Fast, Howard
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
-
La Mesa, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, 1946. First Paperback 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+. Powerful novel set in Reconstruction-era South Carolina, depicting an "extraordinary experiment in political, intellectual, and economic brotherhood between freed slaves and poor whites." In 281 + [2] pages + ad for other Pocket titles in rear. Orig. published in hardcover in 1944, this is the FIRST MASS MARKET PAPERBACK edition, First Printing, from June 1946 (Pocket books #382). Condition is VG+: extremely clean & bright, pages lightly tanned, commensurate with age, but unmarked save for former owner's name & date to ffep. Binding tight & square. Former owner has put clear tape around all outer edges, which has protected them, but has yellowed. 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 Weekdays by 2pm Pacific time; later orders, Weekends, & holidays ship very next business day
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023501
- Title
- Freedom Road
- Author
- Fast, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Paperback 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- black African American biography men N word nigger epithet racial race relations civil rights United states vintage paperback
- Bookseller catalogs
- Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / African/Black Americans; Fiction / Historical;
Terms of Sale
Gargoyle Books
All books shipped promptly that day or next; tracking # provided on all orders. Refunds issued gladly in accordance with Biblio policies.
About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
Biblio member since 2006
La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.