1966, ISBN: a4b98c0886400d3214d43b48766302b4

New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1966 Crown Publishers, New York. 1966. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; bumped tail and upper tips;… More...

New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1966 Crown Publishers, New York. 1966. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; bumped tail and upper tips; light shelfwear; moisture stain on textblock top with no color penetration to pages but has light warping of pages at their tops. DJ: Fair; missing pieces at head, tail, and panel tops; large closed tears on panels. Tan grained vinyl boards and spine with white lettering on the spine and stones in white on the front board. 853 pp 8vo. This is a novel set in the era of the American civil rights movement. The novel's African-American protagonist, David Champlain, was born into the poverty and Jim Crow justice of Depression-era New Orleans. His father was lynched by a white mob and he was raised by his grandparents. David himself is brilliant and lucky and graduated from a Midwestern college, then Harvard Law School, then Oxford. David and a white woman, Sara Kent, fall in love, but David fears for their future as a mixed-race couple in America. David chooses to practice international law and serve abroad as a diplomat. But the death – perhaps murder – of his grandfather brings David back to New Orleans, where he is plunged into the turmoil of the Civil Rights Movement and takes a leadership role. Tragedy ensues. The book title comes from the biblical story of David and Goliath; where in chapter 17 verse 40 of the First Book of Samuel it says: "Then he [David] took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd's bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine, as David fights in the Civil Rights issues of the South. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket., Crown Publishers, 1966, 2.25<

1966, ISBN: a4b98c0886400d3214d43b48766302b4

New York: Crown Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1966. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Only light wear to book ; A tight solid book. Minimal information on copyright page identi… More...

New York: Crown Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1966. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Only light wear to book ; A tight solid book. Minimal information on copyright page identifies this as a book club edition ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 853 pages; This gripping bestseller, first published in 1966, has continued to captivate readers with its wide-ranging yet intimate portrait of an America sundered by racial conflict. David Champlin is a black man born into poverty in Depression-era New Orleans who makes his way up the ladder of success, only to sacrifice everything to lead his people in the civil rights movement. Sara Kent is the white girl who loves David from the moment she first sees him, and who struggles against his belief that a marriage for them would be wrong in the violent world he has to confront. And the “five smooth stones” are those the biblical David carried against Goliath. ., Crown Publishers, 1966, 3<

1975, ISBN: a4b98c0886400d3214d43b48766302b4

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Bantam Books 1975 [1966]], AN, VINTAGE PAPERBACK, INTERRACIAL COUPLE, A Monumental Novel of Forbidden Love. Story of an interracial relationship, opens in N… More...

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Bantam Books 1975 [1966]], AN, VINTAGE PAPERBACK, INTERRACIAL COUPLE, A Monumental Novel of Forbidden Love. Story of an interracial relationship, opens in New Orleans in 1933. 933 pages. Cover creasing, text clean. Softcover, mass market paperback., Books<

ISBN: a4b98c0886400d3214d43b48766302b4

Gebraucht, [PU: Crown Publishers], Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less