About this title: A novel of social protest chronicling the lives of the Youngblood family and their friends in Crossroads, Georgia from the turn of the 20th century to the Great Depression.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780820306025ISBN:0820306029
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Exlibrary, near very good, front cover a little more flexible than rest of binding, which is a little loose, but fairly tightly bound overall. Little edge and exterior wear. Clean pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 475 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Poor. A story of raw courage and warped cruelty in a small southern town. Withink a tense pattern of fear and hatred, it tells a shattering story of yesterday's evils. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780820306025ISBN:0820306029
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. The cover has edge wear. The pages are clean and unmarked. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 475 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Later edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dial, NY
Date Published: 1966
Description: Magic marker remainder mark bottom edge, else mostly fine, in fair to good, priced dust jacket, edge worn, with several mends, a large chip, about the size of a silver dollar, at base of spine. Nice reading copy of the Black author's first novel. read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dial, NY
Date Published: 1955
Description: Second printing, a year after the first. Spine a shade darkened; cheap paper browning. No dust jacket. Excellent reading copy. Black author's first novel. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780820306025ISBN:0820306029
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Novel is termed a landmark novel of social protest originally published in 1954; foreword by Addison Gayle. A Brown Thrasher Book; 475 pp. Signed on half-title page by the author, inscribed "For Frankie-Best Wishes" and dated 5-16-85, no other marks. Very Good softcover has light wear, slightly cocked spine has a some reading lines, bookstore stamp on bottom of half-title page. read more
Description: NY 1955 2nd. printing. Killen's first novel. 8vo., 566pp., hardcover. VG in VG DJ, light wear on edges, long tear on one front free blank. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Georgia. Brown Thrasher Books / The University of Georgia Press, Athens
Date Published: 1982]
ISBN-13:9780820306025ISBN:0820306029
Description: 8vo. softcover. [i-x]. 475pp. spine sunned otherwise a good uncreased copy. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780820306025ISBN:0820306029
Description: As New. 8 ½" x 5 ½", 475 pp, reprint, copy appears to be unread and in MINT condition, SIGNED and dated by John Killens on the endpaper. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: London, The Bodley Head, 1st edition
Date Published: 1956
Description: Book plate on e/ps, gap to top spine of DJ, Good/Good. 566 pages. Deeply moving novel of a black family in a deep South factory town during the 1920s and 30s. 'Youngblood'-the family name-is filled with electrifying intensity and is alive with sharp humour and genuine culture. read more
Edition: 1st ed
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Bodley Head, London
Date Published: 1956
Description: VG hardback in VG Dustjacket. Dustjacket protected in removable clear film. Dust jacket a little worn at edges, with slightly browned spine. read more
Edition: First
Publisher: Dial Press, New York
Date Published: 1954
Description: First edition. Tape marks to the endpapers and a bit of wear to the board edges, thus near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Killens. First novel by an author whose importance to African-American literature is often overlooked. read more
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