Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them. The wild wind blows boxer John McBride into town, a white prize fighter with seemingly superhuman fury and skill. As black boxer Jack L'il Arthur Johnson prepares to fight this fierce opponent, the ...
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Peculiar weather settles over a bustling Texas sea port, a city made prosperous off the cotton trade and thick with racial inequality. The sky above Galveston, Texas, darkens to the sickly green of a healing bruise, the sea turns black, and the inhabitants of the city have no idea the force of the hammer about to drop on them. The wild wind blows boxer John McBride into town, a white prize fighter with seemingly superhuman fury and skill. As black boxer Jack L'il Arthur Johnson prepares to fight this fierce opponent, the storm closes in. If he can survive the ring and the vicious undercurrents of the Jim Crow south, L'il Arthur will still have to fight his way through the storm winds, the rising flood waters, and the violent night. On September 8, 1900, a hurricane ripped apart Galveston, Texas, killing nearly 8,000 people and nearly obliterating the town. Lansdale's story brings dimension to many who lost their lives that day, and a few who survived. Contains mature themes.
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Very good jacket. Signed. First Edition. A fine copy of this SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s) BC06A Copy 249 of 250. Signed by Joe Lansdale. Fine Red Hardcover with Fine Pictorial DJ in Fine Black Slipcover. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and free of writing or marks. Well packed and promptly shipped.
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Used; Like New. Mark V. Ziesing. Used; Like New. Subterranean Press 2000 Hardcover slip-cased. Stated First Edition. SIGNED by author on limitations page. This edition is limited to 250 numbered and 13 lettered copies, of which this is number 118. Book is new and unread, and jacket is protected with a BroDart cover. Book Condition; Like New Jacket Condition: Like New. 2000. First Edition. HARDCOVER.
