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Richards, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1973.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Softcover, 124 pages, fair condition; small tear and piece missing at top of spine; spine very stained; white covers have moderate rubbing wear and light stains; no internal marks. After page 124, pages 113-124 are repeated at the end of book. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Richards, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. MIT Press, 1973.
Price: US$64.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
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Seller: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Richards, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. MIT Press (MA), 1973.
Price: US$68.85 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Richards, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. MIT Press, 1973.
Price: US$74.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
RICHARDS, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1973.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Oblong softcover. 123 pages. Simultaneous paperback issue of Richards' now classic first book, a powerful and dark collection of 110 black and white photographs all taken in the West Memphis, Arkansas. A tight near fine copy in wrappers with some very minor wear. A nicer than usual copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1973 Hardcover with illustrated boards, with the as same dust jacket, 123 page book . Illustrated with black & white full page plates by Eugene Richards. Condition : Very Good with ex-owners name penned on the inside front board . With edge rubs and bumps with aging. Dust jacket is good with repairs a with tape over on the bottom spine and price clipped . Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: Gibbs Books, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
Eugene Richards. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. MIT Press, 1973.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: A very nice copy of Richards' first book in a dust jacket that has a small piece missing at the base of the spine and the not uncommon splitting starting at the rear fold of this price clipped dust jacket.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
RICHARDS, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1973.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. Richards' now classic first book, a powerful and dark collection of 110 black and white photographs all taken in West Memphis, Arkansas. A good copy in photo-illustrated boards with bumping and wear to the spine ends in an about very good dust jacket that is lightly soiled, with some edge tears, wear to the spine ends, and some of the usual splitting at the flaps. Despite the litany of flaws a solid copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Richards, Eugene. FEW COMFORTS OR SURPRISES: THE A. MIT Press, 1973.
Price: US$176.57 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.57
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Richards, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. MIT Press, 1973.
Price: US$176.61 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Richards, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. MIT Press, 1973.
Price: US$177.09 + shipping
Condition: New
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Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Richards, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. MIT Press, 1973.
Price: US$177.27 + shipping
Condition: New
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Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Richards, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. MIT Press, 1973.
Price: US$178.09 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Richards, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. MIT Press, 1973.
Price: US$201.59 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: MA: MIT 1973. Presumed 1st. Hardcover 8vo oblong 123 pgs. B/w plates. Near good book in a poor dust jacket. White covers are soiled and edgeworn. Hinge is cracked for about 1 1/2 inches at bottom of front and rear cover. Contents clean and interior binding sound. Jacket is edgeworn and chipped. Jacket is in 2 pieces with most of the spine and the rear flap missing. (african american studies, african american history, black studies, black history, arkansas, photo, photography) Inquire if you need further information.
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Eugene Richards. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. Mit Press, Cambridge, Ma, 1973.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: OBlong hardcover in jacket, very good with slight toning and shelf wear.
Seller: Winged Monkey Books, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
Richards, Eugene. Few Comforts or Surprises: The Arkansas Delta. MIT Press, 1973.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: MIT Press January 1973 Binding: Hardcover $NRP
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Description: First edition. 235x286mm. pp. [iv], 124. 110 black and white photographs by Richards with accompanying text for some of the images. Photographic illustrated paper boards. Some bumping to the corners and head and foot of spine but otherwise in very good condition and the contents are excellent. Lacking dustjacket. This is Eugene Richards's first book. It was born out of his work with VISTA, (Volunteers in Service to America) which he joined in 1968. This was a government programme established as an arm of the so-called" War on Poverty." Following a year and a half in eastern Arkansas, Richards helped found a social service organization and a community newspaper, Many Voices, which reported on black political action as well as the Ku Klux Klan. This collection reflects the hardship of life together with the racial and political tensions in this desperately poor part of the southern states. An important document in excellent condition. This copy is from the library of John G. Morris. John G. Morris (1916-2017) was probably the most important photo-editor of the twentieth century. He worked with many of the finest photographers - Robert Capa, Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith. As the London Picture Editor of "Life" during WWII, he was responsible for editing and publishing Capa's coverage of D-Day. Later, Morris became the Picture Editor of "Ladies Home Journal", Executive Editor of Magnum Photos, and Picture Editor of The New York Times. Until his death, he toured the world lecturing about photo-journalism "If it [a photo] has a message, the message has to come through. But, it should evoke something from the heart. It should pull at you. Not only should it inform you, it should hook you".
Seller: Voewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA, Holt, United Kingdom
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Richards' first book, a monograph that consists of photographs taken in West Memphis, Arkansas, during his 1968 tenure with VISTA. An examination into the lives of African American workers living far below the poverty line. One of the most important twentieth century photo books on American culture outside the mainstream. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket, an exceptional copy of a book normally found in much lesser condition.
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$715.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text by Eugene Richards. 124 pp., with 110 black-and-white plates. 9-1/4 x 11-1/2 inches. Scarce. Near Fine (moderate edgewear, bumped, slightly torn corners and toning to the boards, slightly frayed trim to lower edge of text block; interior bright and clean), in Very Good dust jacket (price-clipped, pronounced toning, soiling and wear to the extremities). From the publisher: "Eugene Richards first came to the southeastern part of Arkansas--the so-called Delta--in 1968 as a VISTA volunteer. After nearly two years in that organization.he and some of his associates in it left to found RESPECT, Inc., a private social-action program providing paralegal services, publishing a community newspaper, and distributing food and clothing in West Memphis. As he lived and became increasingly involved in the black community, Richards, a skilled photographer, began to use his camera to record what he observed--not only the poverty and suffering of these people but also their laughter, contemplation, and triumphs. His subjects range from children at play to an African-style wedding to scenes of work and home life. Death, religion, and imprisonment are major elements of Delta experience, and so of these photos."
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition of this early photographic monograph. Near fine condition in photographic boards in a near fine unclipped dustwrapper. Nicer than typically found.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.