Five men and a woman, all African Americans, huddle in the rattling darkness of a boxcar headed north, away from a brutal South, seeking freedom and opportunity. They are joined by a white intruder whose own quest puts them all in great danger. Like Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales , each of these travelers has a story to tell, and these stories--of humor and humiliation, of prostitution and pride, of love and murder--unfold in the course of the journey. They reveal the lives and secrets of the tellers and give ...
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Five men and a woman, all African Americans, huddle in the rattling darkness of a boxcar headed north, away from a brutal South, seeking freedom and opportunity. They are joined by a white intruder whose own quest puts them all in great danger. Like Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales , each of these travelers has a story to tell, and these stories--of humor and humiliation, of prostitution and pride, of love and murder--unfold in the course of the journey. They reveal the lives and secrets of the tellers and give this transient community self-respect and solidarity as it hurtles toward arrest or worse. The Big Boxcar , written from a totally black perspective by a white author, bears witness to the structural racism of a social order that sets ordinary people of different colors against each other to the disadvantage of all. Alan Wald's introduction documents Maund's life of activism and his uncompromising commitment to social emancipation.
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Add this copy of The Big Boxcar (Radical Novel Reconsidered) to cart. $6.50, very good condition, Sold by Websters Bookstore Cafe rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from State College, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by University of Illinois Press.
Add this copy of The Big Boxcar (Radical Novel Reconsidered) to cart. $8.24, good condition, Sold by Midtown Scholar Bookstore rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Harrisburg, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by University of Illinois Press.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
Add this copy of The Big Boxcar to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by Always Superior Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1957 by Ballantine.
Add this copy of The Big Boxcar to cart. $19.38, good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1959 by Longmans, Green.
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Used-Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket. Page fore-edge foxed; free end papers lightly yellowed; dust jacket a little shelf-worn, with discoloured back panel.
Add this copy of The Big Boxcar to cart. $19.83, like new condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by University of Illinois Press.
Add this copy of The Big Boxcar to cart. $19.83, very good condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1998 by University of Illinois Press.
Add this copy of The Big Boxcar to cart. $29.63, very good condition, Sold by Monarchy Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Toronto, ON, CANADA, published 1957 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 0x0x0; Dust-jacket is worn at the extremities. Spine head and heel are missing a couple of small pieces, Corner edges of Dust-jacket are slightly chipped. Small tears throught out the outer edges. Dust-jacket is yellow from the age with foxing at the rear. Not price clipped. Red outer boards are clean. Black lettering on the spine are bright and clean. Very slightly bumped head and heel of spine. The four corners of the boards are slightly rubbed. The inside pages are clean. A scarce title to find in a first edition hardcover with DJ. Six people share their tales of trouble with the law as they travel in a boxcar from the deep south to the north. based on your address. -We can ship from USA and Canada. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.
Add this copy of The Big Boxcar to cart. $34.97, like new condition, Sold by Kulturas books west rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1957 by Houghton Mifflin.
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Fine in Good+ dust jacket. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright, with small chips along edges and some minor loss of paper at corners and spine ends. Jacket art by Samuel H. Bryant. A nice copy of this Southern writer's first novel. 8vo. 178 pp. In protective Mylar.
Add this copy of The Big Boxcar to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1957 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. Bookstore stamps, sticker and crayon marks on front fly, edges lightly worn, still very good in a very good modestly edgeworn dustwrapper with front flap creased. A proletarian novel by a little known Southern writer. Six men and a woman, each in flight from the law and their pasts, meet in the darkness of a boxcar for a dangerous journey from the deep South to the North. Something of a minor classic.
Add this copy of The Big Boxcar to cart. $55.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1959 by Longmans Green.
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Very Good jacket. First English edition. A tiny name stamp on the front fly, endpapers, and first and last few leaves quite foxed, else very good or better in very good plus, price-clipped dustwrapper with rubbing, and foxing to the flaps. An uncommon proletarian novel by a little known Southern writer. Six men and a woman, each in flight from the law and their pasts, meet in the darkness of a boxcar for a dangerous journey from the deep South to the North. Something of a minor classic.
