First published in 1946, Trumpet to the World can be seen as a landmark novel, rare for its profound rendering of a black man's experience in Jim Crow America and prophetic of the social changes to come in the next decade. Its protagonist, Willie Jim, could have been brutalized by his family's hard existence in Georgia, but he heads out early; could have been thoroughly demoralized by bigotry and discrimination in a hundred forms, but he learns to read and write and thinks for himself; could have been emotionally ...
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First published in 1946, Trumpet to the World can be seen as a landmark novel, rare for its profound rendering of a black man's experience in Jim Crow America and prophetic of the social changes to come in the next decade. Its protagonist, Willie Jim, could have been brutalized by his family's hard existence in Georgia, but he heads out early; could have been thoroughly demoralized by bigotry and discrimination in a hundred forms, but he learns to read and write and thinks for himself; could have been emotionally unfulfilled, but he learns to love in the midst of hate. After his marriage to a white woman, Willie Jim, caught up in the maelstrom of World War II, is sent to an army camp in the South, where his duty includes teaching English to other soldiers. A tragic event there compromises his future at the very moment a book he has written trumpets to the world his dream of social justice and universal brotherhood.
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Near fine(-) copy in good(+) dust jacket; bright cloth w/ only faintest dulling underneath dj chips; dj has uneven chipping to spine ends w/ 2" scuffing on spine, affecting "World"; slight rubbing to upper spine folds & to corners; 1/2" chip from front... Sm. 8vo 7 3/4"x 5" yellow cloth w/ title on front, & lettering on spine, printed in brown; fore edge untrimmed (no priority); 242 pgs; yellow dust jacket w/ $2.50 on front flap, author photo on rear; 7 titles listed at back.
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Very Good in Good jacket. First edition. Owner's name and address inked on front fly with his pencil notations on a few pages, cloth lightly soiled, corners bumped, very good in a good only rubbed dustwrapper with extremities chipped and torn. Author's first novel about an African-American soldier married to a white woman in the Jim Crow era.
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Fine copy in near fine dust jacket; bright, unblemished cloth; dj has only slight flaking to spine ends & 2 tiny edge nicks; 2 closed tears along front spine fold & 2 tears to top edges are imperceptible w/ archival repair; a superlative copy, very... Sm. 8vo 7 3/4"x 5" yellow cloth w/ title on front, & lettering on spine, printed in brown; fore edge trimmed (no priority); 242 pgs; yellow dust jacket w/ $2.50 on front flap, author photo on rear; 7 titles listed at back.
