Photographer, filmmaker, screenwriter, director, and composer Gordon Parks reflects on his own dramatic life, from his poor Kansas origins to his great triumphs in America and abroad. Encompassing the major events of five decades of his life, Parks relates with excitement, humor, and often anger his experiences--first to survive, then overcome, and at last to create. (Anchor)
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Photographer, filmmaker, screenwriter, director, and composer Gordon Parks reflects on his own dramatic life, from his poor Kansas origins to his great triumphs in America and abroad. Encompassing the major events of five decades of his life, Parks relates with excitement, humor, and often anger his experiences--first to survive, then overcome, and at last to create. (Anchor)
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Good. Pages are clean! The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. This is a hardcover copy This is an ex library book with sticker sand markings Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. The book has the normal library markings and attachments. The pages are tanned, but clean. The spine has light fading. Illustrated. 351 pages.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. 351pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some rubbing and edgewear.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Doubleday, New York, New York, U. S. A., 1990. Xv, 351 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Poor, jobless and hungry in Harlem in the early 1930s, Parks went on to achieve distinction as a photographer, film director, writer, poet, composer and painter. Born in a small Kansas town in 1912, he became the first black photographer at Life and Vogue, and later, Hollywood's first black director and screenwriter. His exhilarating, inspirational autobiography provides a searing view of what it's like to be black in America. Careening from the "hate-drenched city" of Washington, D. C., in the 1940s, to New York, "that jungle of uncertainty, " to postwar Paris, Rio and Birmingham, Ala., Parks sets down his impressions of civil rights and black power strugges, his encounter with Third World poverty and meetings with Eisenhower, Churchill, Malcolm X, Sugar Ray Robinson, Ingrid Bergman, to name a few. He is guarded and defensive in discussing his three marriages, but succeeds in drawing the reader into the peaks and anguish of his "complex, transitory, bittersweet existence." EB; 9.3 X 6.3 X 1.4 inches; 351 pages; Signed by Author.
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Very Good. Size: 1x6x9; Flat Signed by Gordon Parks on front endpaper. First Edition Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.
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Fair. May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle area. Thank you for supporting Goodwill's nonprofit mission!
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Fair. May contain writing notes highlighting bends or folds. Text is readable book is clean and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. Frontis (portrait). photos, index, xv, 351p. Original cloth-backed boards. dj. 23 cm. Soiling and spotting on page edges along top.
