Search Results: charley starts from scratch by jackson jesse

Softcover. Ex-library. Acceptable. Image of actual book: Several signs of usage and wear including library card holder, markings, stamps, stickers and writing. No DJ. Pages tanning but with no writing. Bumping, rubbing and fading on the cover and spine. Outer page edges with tanning, browning, stains and foxing. The plight of an eighteen-year-old Negro, the only Negro boy in a snug Ohio town, could not conceivably be easy. In Charley's case it is just this handicap which fills him with a fierce determination to prove himself a man, not a child dependent on the condescending benevolence of his white neighbors. Charley's moral odyssey takes him to Atlantic City where he is confronted with a barrage of prejudice and disadvantage. 1971. A8.

New York: Yearling, 1971. Good. Rep. Good. Cover very rubbed, sticker on spine. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

NY Harper & Row 1958. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Hard Cover. Fine in a near fine, price clipped dustjacket. Third book in the juvenile series about Charley Moss a young African American. In HarperCrest binding, NOT a library discard..

HARPER AND ROW. Hardcover. USED Good. Harper Crest Library Edition (not an ex-library copy) Inscribed by author on half-title page dj water-stained and torn near base of spine in new mylar jacket text clean & tight later printing 152pp.