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A Different Drummer
by Kelley, William Melvin
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1963. First British Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First British edition. 223 pp. Black cloth with silver and red lettering on spine. Near Fine with tiny nick in spine in Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket, slightly worn at head and tail, closed tear in top of back panel, verso lightly foxed along folds and edges. Slight mustiness. Rare in both British and American editions.
The African-American author and professor's best-known novel, also his debut. He coined the term "woke" in a 1962 op-ed. Nearly a year after his death in 2017 interest in his works began to revive with a piece in The New Yorker dubbing him "The Lost Giant of American Literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140937548
- Title
- A Different Drummer
- Author
- Kelley, William Melvin
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1963
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- New
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Jacket
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