Manchild in the Promised Land
by BROWN, Claude
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1965. Book club edition. Very good/very good. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 415 pp.
Shelf wear and sunning to jacket. Tearing to header of jacket spine.
This is an early book club edition of Brown's memoir of life in Harlem.
Shelf wear and sunning to jacket. Tearing to header of jacket spine.
This is an early book club edition of Brown's memoir of life in Harlem.
Synopsis
Manchild in the Promised Land is an autobiographical novel written by Claude Brown. It tells about the author's coming of age amidst poverty and violence in Harlem during the 1940s and 1950s. The book has frequently appeared on banned book lists for offensive language, violence, and degradation of women.
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Details
- Seller
- Uncharted Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2530
- Title
- Manchild in the Promised Land
- Author
- BROWN, Claude
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book club edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Book Club Edition
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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