Search Results: coming of age in mississippi an by moody anne

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Dial Press, 1968-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.1000 in x 8.3000 in x 5.7000 in.

The Dial Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Dial Press, 1968. Octavo. Gray boards stamped in brown. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Red topstain and smudges to top page ends. Price-clipped dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear, nicks and creases on left flap. 348 pages. ISBN: 038527842X. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

New York: The Dial Press, 1968. 2nd printing 1969. Hardcover. G++/dj G w/ minor frays at top, not price-clipped.. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4. Grey cloth w/ brown lettering on spine. Clean, solid.

New York: Dial Press. Hardcover. 1969. 2nd Printing. 8vo 348pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. The author was born in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, in 1940 and spent her early childhood on a plantation where here parents were sharecroppers .

Dial Press, 0000-00-00. hardcover. Used: Good.

Content appears as new, unopened, unread and unblemished with fine light brown, cloth covered boards in DJ displaying minimal surface/edge wear, as shown. Reinforced small tear on face.
Kirkus Review: Ann Moody was born and grew up black in a small town in Mississippi where her Mama and Daddy sharecropped cotton before he left and Mama moved into town. Centerville, to work in a cafe and produce a string of fatherless children. Ann learned in the balcony of the movie theatre that "whiteness" made everything better; at home she listened to "a nigger can't make it no way"; at ten she was working in a household and later, in high school, for the meanest woman in town when Emmet Till was killed. At 15, she came of age and began to hate people, particularly her own who didn't stand up--or talk back. Saving up money for college, spending, a summer in a chicken factory where other workers were deader than the chickens, she finally went on to college in Natchez (prison strictures) and later Tougalou where she… Read More

Dial Press, 1968-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York: The Dial Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. x, 348 pp. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with purple lettering on spine. Very Good+ with small coffee stains to front board and bottom edge, tiny ink stain to fore edge, bumped corners, in a Very Good edge-worn dust jacket, a few closed tears, unclipped ($5.95). A memoir about growing up Black and female in '40s and '50s Mississippi and the author's awakening working for the civil rights group Congress of Racial Equality.