'New World A-Coming' by OTTLEY, Roi - 1943

Houghton Miflin, 1943. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Old remants of pocket removal from verso of front cover, piece of stamp paper on ffep stamed dicard and blackcross outs to title page, large blacked out spot top edge of pages, slight bow to covers, blacked out libray mark on spine.

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is slightly smudged and faded at the spine. A gift label to a university is attached to the front free paper. Volume was not put in circulation. A stamped "Received' stamp on a page before the title page. Title is a Life-In-America prize book. From the Foreword, "This book, I believe, might very well be named 'Inside Black America'. For it is an intimately detailed study of Negro life. Harlem, the most complex of Negro communities, is used as a sort of test tube in which the germs of Negro thought, and action are isolated, examines, and held up to full glare to reflect Black America."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. A Very Good copy in brown cloth lettered in black. Light cover wear, sound binding, clean/unmarked within. No dust jacket. (Not ex-library.)

Cleveland World, 1945, 1st reprint edition, ill. John O'hara Cosgrove, brown cloth, very good except moderate wear/bumps to cover extremities, internally very good, gift inscription in ink on first blank page after the front free endpaper, 364pp, 5-1/2""x8-1/4"", no dust jacket

New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1945. Pamphlet. 8p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8 inches, vertically creased, front wrap soiled else good condition. Reprint of the book's last chapter, issued as a fundraiser for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Committee of 100. New York born African American journalist whose career included seven years covering Harlem for the Amersterdam Star News.

New York: Literary Classics, 1943. Very Good. Later. Very good. Browning. 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.

Cleveland: World Publishing, c1943. 1945 printing. Hardcover. Very good condition/good. vi, [2], 364 p. incl. front., illus. 22 cm.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1945. Very Good with chipped dustjacket, Hardcover 1945 (Life-in-America Prize Book). First Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Cosgrave II, John O'Hara.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. vi 354pp+ index. Very good hardback in a tanned and lightly chipped jacket that has some loss at the rear fold.

New York: Arno / New York Times, 1969. Paperback. Very good. 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. This is an uncommon vintage paperback about Black life in Harlem in the first half of the 20th century.