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Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 809p. Pages are unmarked with a light patina and some foxing along text-block. Tightly bound with secure hinges. Red cloth boards have lightly bumped corners and minor scuffing on surfaces. Endpages are stamped. Lacks a jacket. Faintly bug-eaten on spine.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo; Fair+; Hardcover; Spine, tan with cream print on brown banner; Boards in tan cloth, wear to spine caps and corners, spotty stains to front and rear, mild shelfwear; Text block has cracked front hinge, underlining and marginal notation in red pencil; xxxiv, 809 pages. 1359771. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition hardback in original cloth Nice copy octavo. xxxiv + 809pp., diags., index, First edition of Drake and Cayton's study of African American society in Chicago, the city then having the second largest African American population in the country. An important sociological survey - Chicago was a major target for the Great Northward Migration in the first half of the century, as African Americans left the segregated south
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8.75 x 5.75", cloth, 809pp with index, covers a bit rubbed, extremities bumped and worn, pp toned (especially endpapers), former owners' ink inscriptions on front fly, as is an old strip of paper, in a rubbed, edge-worn/torn/badly chipped, spine-sunned and price-clipped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. Near Fine, lacking dust jacket. A nice copy with text free of markings.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second edition. Introduction by Richard Wright. Boards a little soiled else about near fine in near very good dustwrapper with some chipping mostly at the crown and extremities. Study of the African-American population in Chicago, at the time the second largest urban African-American population in the U.S.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$157.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. An important Jim Crow-era look at the lives of the Black population in Chicago in the 1940s, a "monumental study of race relations and African American social structure" (Finkelman, 90). Introduction by Richard Wright, novelist and short-story writer who was among the first African American writers to protest white treatment of Blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940) and his autobiography, Black Boy (1945). By examining the different strata of society within the Bronzeville neighborhood, Drake and Cayton are able to identify and describe many social issues that still affect Black communities today. This true-1st edition comes with a married book club dust jacket. Orange cloth binding. Tight square binding. Mild edge wear to spine ends. Jacket with light edgewear and some sunning on spine. Mild chipping on top and bottom of spine. Illustrated with various charts and diagrams. A quintessential addition to any Black History collection.
Seller: Vintage Books and Fine Art, Oxford, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second edition. Introduction by Richard Wright. Contemporary gift inscription, with tattered remnants of the dustwrapper laid in. Study of the African-American population in Chicago, at the time the second largest urban African-American population in the U.S.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Introduction by Richard Wright. Errata slip tipped-in. Owner name else fine in price-clipped very good dust jacket with some sunning at the spine and shallow chipping at the crown. Study of the African-American population in Chicago, at that time the second largest urban African-American population in the U.S.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this contemporary look at the lives of Black people in Chicago in the 1940s, a "monumental study of race relations and African American social structure" (Finkelman, 90). Anthropologist, scholar, and political advisor to several African nations, St. Clair Drake made his career working among the people he studied. While his co-author Horace R. Cayton had connections among the upper crust of Chicago's Black community, Drake was able to form relationships with the "poorer wage-earners" of the city (29), those who "the uppers and middles sometimes visualize as a 'problem' and always an embarrassment" (602). By examining the different strata of society within the Bronzeville neighborhood, Drake and Cayton are able to identify and describe many social issues that still affect Black communities today. Published "at a moment when sociology seemed unaware of the potential for overt racial conflict," BLACK METROPOLIS "anticipated the Black Power rebellions of the 1960s by acknowledging the existence of nationalistic, non-assimilative sentiment informed by race pride [.] and a long-held resentment at white oppression" (Rosa, 51). The popularity of BLACK METROPOLIS has carried it through several editions and reissues. A groundbreaking work, scarce in the original dust jacket. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original red-orange cloth binding. Original price-clipped dust jacket. Illustrated with various charts and diagrams. xxxiv, 810 pages. Jacket with light edgewear, a few small closed tears; spine with some sunning and 1.5" partially-closed tear with attendant rubbing, a bit of chipping to ends. Binding with small knock to spine. Text with a touch of soil to bottom edge. Tight. Very good in very good dust jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Signed by co-author Horace R. Cayton, Jr. on the front free endpaper. xxxiv, 809 pp. Publisher's red cloth, gray and yellow stamping to spine. Very Good with light red pencil notation by former owner to paste down and a few underlines throughout text, a hint of wave towards front, in a Near Fine dust jacket with slightly sunned spine panel, a few short closed tears, unclipped ($5.00). An uncommon signature on a classic sociological survey of urban African American life, specifically the South Side of Chicago. Cayton was a prominent African American sociologist, the son of a founder of a Black newspaper in Seattle in the 1890s.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.