Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (4 results)

Condition: Good. Second Edition. Second edition. Bound in publisher's original blue stapled wraps printed in darker blue. Good. Tear at bottom edge of front cover repaired with tape, and creasing throughout. An African American civil rights advocate and trade unionist. In his more than 40 years as a clerk in the Detroit post office, he employed his low-key strategies to improve working conditions for his fellow workers. He once told a reporter about how he got the postmaster to let blacks work at the counter windows. "During the '20s, they wouldn't even let Negroes work at the window selling stamps. I asked the postmaster, and his answer was that white people would not stand for buying stamps from Negroes," Grigsby recalled. "I told him the post office had a monopoly on selling stamps, and I said if [whites] don't buy them at the post office, where are they going to buy them?".

Seller Inventory # 140944960

First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Charles Jackson on the front free endpaper. [viii], 244 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Offsetting to front free endpaper, else Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket, slightly sunned foot, light wear, small scrape to rear panel, price intact ($2.50). An attractive copy of the bestselling novel about alcoholism, which inspired an Oscar-winning film in 1945. The author was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous and spoke frequently at their meetings; this, his best known book, is still an AA favorite.

Seller Inventory # 140946204

Condition: Near Fine. Fourth Printing. First edition, fourth printing. Bound in green cloth binding. Near Fine with light edge wear, light spotting to textblock edge. AA-related typed clipping pasted to front free endpaper with offsetting to pastedown and small area of damage (or binder's error) to hinge of rear endsheet. A very sharp and well preserved copy. One of the first 3,500 of the fourth printing, bound in green cloth, after which a remaining 1,500 copies were bound in blue.

Seller Inventory # 140943127

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Bill Wilson, inscribed to a former owner, and dated in the year of publication. Very Good with light rubbing at spine ends, pages toned. Endsheets foxed and offset, with evidence of an appendage removed from rear free endsheet. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and light edge wear with several small chips. A lovely copy, inscribed by the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Seller Inventory # 140939131