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If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sphere Books, 1967. Paperback. Acceptable. 1967. First Edition Thus. 188 pages. Pictorial paper covers. Moderate tanning to pages, text block edges and reverse of covers. Pen inscription to first page. Hinges are lightly cracked but covers remain firmly attached. Paper covers have light edge-wear and corner curling with minor tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor rolling and creasing.
Synopsis
If He Hollers Let Him Go is the first novel by Chester Himes, published in 1945. It is about an African American shipyard worker in Los Angeles during World War II. A 1968 film adaptation with Raymond St. Jacques, Barbara McNair, Kevin McCarthy, and Arthur O'Connell bore little resemblance to the book. The story spans four days in the life of Bob Jones, a newcomer to L.A. from Ohio, who has some college education and works as a crew leader in a naval shipyard. It is considered a protest novel, in the same vein as Richard Wright's book Native Son, published 5 years earlier.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692188536MXP
- Title
- If He Hollers Let Him Go
- Author
- Chester Himes
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sphere Books
- Date Published
- 1967
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- 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...
- Text Block
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- Acceptable
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- Cracked
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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