Way Past Cool by Jess Mowry - 1992: // The Photos in this listing are of the book that is offered for sale

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hard Cover. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

Farrar Straus & Giroux. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1992. Hardcover. USED Good.

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight rubbing and minor nicks to jacket; else a near fine copy internally. [8], 309, [1] pages. Author's third book; novel of teenage gang life set in Oakland, California. Notable for jacket blurbs by Leon Bing, Claude Brown and Terry McMillan.

New York: Farrar, Staus, and Giroux, 1992 Hb. VG/VG. 1st. 310pp. Soiling and wear boards, soiling edges, DJ: wear extremities, rubbing.. F. Hardcover.

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), April 1992. Hardcover Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good Hardcover with No DJ. Moderate soiling and shelfwear to covers. Spine ends bumped and tearing. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

New York. 1992. Farrar Straus Giroux. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in Wrappers. 0374286698. 309 pages. paperback. . keywords: Literature Black America Oakland. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Authentic, dark, suspenseful, inspiring - here is a novel about the street gangs of Oakland that brings alive the tension, drama, and pathos of America's urban reality in a totally fresh way. Gordon, age thirteen, is the leader of the Friends, a gang of black boys in their very early teens who struggle to hold a few blocks of bleak, ragged turf in Oakland - known to the homeboys as Oaktown - California. Fiercely loyal to their group, they live by a strict unwritten code of honor, ‘the rules' that govern their dealings with each other, their world, and the Crew, their neighboring rival gang. Though they are enemies, the Friends and the Crew share many common problems - especially the menacing presence of Deek, a sixteen-year-old drug dealer who cruises their ‘hoods in his sleek black Trans-Am accompanied by… Read More

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. Hardcover. 310p., first edition, dj.