Flavin, Martin

Black and White, from the Cape to the Congo

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at the half-title, inscribed to John C. Greedy in 1950 upon release of the book. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Map endpapers front and rear. Illustrated by Paul Whitman, with his plentiful decorations. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn and chipped, protected by a plastic coat. A fine and probing, honest account of the author's travels to and throughout South Africa, ZBechuanaland, and the Congo. Martin Archer Flavin (November 2, 1883 – December 27, 1967) was an American playwright and novelist and who won the Harper Prize for 1943 and a Pulitzer Prize for 1944 for a novel and other awards for The Criminal Code, eleven plays on Broadway between 1923 and 1937 in all. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 332 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Very Good/Good,

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Book number: 357341

Catalogue: Africana

Keywords: signed Martin Flavin race racism

Flavin, Martin. (Illustrated Paul Whitman).

Black and White. From the Cape to the Congo.

Harper, NY. 1950. 1st edition. Black cloth boards. 332pp illustrated 8vo. No inscription. VG+ in Good only dustwrapper (clipped, spine tanned, worn at head & tail of spine, closed tear). an exceptionally clean copy beneath the lesser dustwrapper. A travel book from a Pulitzer prize-winning novelist with a wry sense of humour and a sharp eye. very entertaining.

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Book number: 10738

Catalogue: 20thC African Travel

Keywords: africa african south southern travel niger

FLAVIN, MARTIN

Cameron Hill: The History of a Crime: A Novel

London: Muller, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. viii, 273 pages, dust jacket illustration by P. Morgan, foxing to page edges and endpapers, pages 157-160 loose, price clipped dust jacket with repairs along top edge, rear of jacket shop soiled.. Good .

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Book number: 165349

FLAVIN, Martin

Cameron Hill: the history of a crime - a novel

London, Muller, 1958. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good price-clipped dustjacket 1st ed.. 1st edition, 1958. Dust jacket worn and chipped at top edge. Photo:.

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Book number: BOOKS029429I

FLAVIN, Martin

Cameron Hill: the history of a crime - a novel

London, Frederick Muller, 1958. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good price-clipped dustjacket 1st ed. Dust jacket worn & chipped at edges. Photo:.

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Book number: BOOKS105141I

Flavin, Martin

Corporal Cat in the Philadelphia Inquirer Gold Seal Novel Sunday, February 22, 1942

Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1942. First Edition. Newspaper. Pages are age-toned. A fine copy. Illustrations by Henry C. Pitz.; Folio. Ill.: Illustrated by Pitz, Henry C.

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Book number: 18721

Catalogue: Magazines

Keywords: FICTION, GOLD SEAL NOVEL, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Magazine

FLAVIN, MARTIN

The Enchanted

London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1949. First Edition. Maroon hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). 313pp. b&w plates.. Ex-lib reading copy without dust jacket .

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Book number: bbf108

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction First Editions

Flavin, Martin Illust. by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge:

The Enchanted.

London, Hodder And Stoughton, 1949 1st Ed., H/B brown cloth bds, Good-, a little battered looking, ffep and half title missing, closed tear landscape half way across pges 7-10 approx 1/3 of the way up pge, still perfectly readable, a sound reading copy.

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Book number: 7963

Keywords: Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge fiction story tale romance

Flavin, Martin

Journey in the Dark

The Franklin Library, 1978. hardback. very good condition in full leather- no dust jacket -

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Book number: 84004

FLAVIN, MARTIN

Red Poppies and White Marble a Journal on the Riviera of Antiquity

New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1962. Hardcover. Pulitzer-winning author travelled in the ancient lands of present-day Turkey. With eroded frontiespiece author portrait; map of travels at endpapers. Traces of erased pencilings, half title page. Dust jacket lightly chipped at edges, has orig $5 flap price. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 72216

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