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By: N/A
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, The Universal Black Writer: 1981
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 29367
Special issue on The African-American Writer behind Bars. Many poets represented. How to set up a creative writing workshop in a prison, Malcolm X in Prison, etc. Near fine copy.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 31 pages View more info
By: N/A
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New York, The Universal Black Writer: 1982
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 29368
Wraps, special issue on bookstores.. Eight poets are represented + articles on planning book parties and bookfairs, Black Bookstores Moving through Decades, The African National Memorial Bookstore and more. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 36 pages View more info
By: Andrews, William L. & Gates, Henry Louis, editors
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Library of America: 2000
Edition: First Edition Thus; First Printing
Seller ID: 23395
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Fine book in near fine dust jacket.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 1033 pp View more info
By: Baldwin, James
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's / Marek: 1985
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 29509
A fine copy in very good- dust jacket with jagged, internally mended, tear at the head of the front spine fold The tear is 1¾" long and veers off onto the front panel for ½". There are several other much smaller tears as well.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 690 pp View more info
Price: $450.00
Publisher: Washingon, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office: 1970
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 29506
Wraps, very good+ copy with sunning to spine, a few old creases to corners, short wrinkle at top edge. Folding map of the premises tipped in at rear. Nice looking copy. On December 4, 1969, police assigned to the Cook County States Attorney's office, supposedly executing a search warrant for illegal weapons, without warning opened up a deadly barrage through windows and doors, killing two sleeping members of the BPP, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. While the officers painted a picture that had them only firing in self defense, the bullet holes told the stories, and neighbors conducted tours of t... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Detroit, Broadside Press: 1972
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 29493
Fine and bright, first issued without dust jacket, in very close to fine dust jacket with spine printed slightly off-center. Many photos of family and friends. I am probably the source of the information that the first copies of this book to arrive in stores came without dust jackets. I specifically did NOT say that the jacketed copies that came from a reorder were from a second printing. My guess is that the jackets were not ready when the first copies of the book were shipped, so this would be a second issue or state of the first printing. I know no way of finding out the truth, other than t... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Detroit, Broadside Press: 1972
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 29494
Fine and bright, first issued without dust jacket, in fine dust jacket. This is an advance review copy with slip laid in, signed and inscribed by the author. Many photos of family and friends. I am probably the source of the information that the first copies of this book to arrive in stores came without dust jackets. I specifically did NOT say that the jacketed copies that came from a reorder were from a second printing. My guess is that the jackets were not ready when the first copies of the book were shipped, so this would be a second issue or state of the first printing. I know no way of fi... View more info
By: Kgositsile, Keorapetse; Brooks, Gwendolyn (intro)
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Company: 1971
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 29437
Fine in very good, bit rubbed dust jacket with short tear at head of rear spine fold and wear at head of spine. The poet was one of the activists sent oversea from Africa by the banned African National Congress and he moved to the US in the early 1960s, later becoming a significant force in the black aesthetic movements and the Black Arts Movement. Jazz played a major role in his poetry as well as in his life, and he won many awards for his writing. (The ANC toppled apartheid and the poet returned to South Africa.) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 89 pp View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Journal of Black Poetry: 1968
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 29369
Wraps, very good+ with a minor bump to lower left on rear wrap, bit of soiling on inside back cover margin, very nice looking copy.; Cruz, Toure, Crouch, Sonia Sanchez, Marvin X, Don Lee, Clarence Major, Carolyn Rodgers, Jewel Latimore, and Lorde, to name only a few. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 90 pages View more info
By: Pace Primitive & Ancient Art
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Pace Primitive & Ancient Art: 1978
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 29366
Folded orange portfolio holding 17 glossy prints + cover letter about Ulfert Wilke's life and collections. Near fine. This publication was issued for the exhibition held January 14 - February 11, 1978 at the gallery's headquarters at 32 E. 57th st. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 17+1 pages View more info
By: Rogers, J. A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, J. A. Rogers: 1944
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 29508
Very good- copy: shaken, spots on boards, small corner bumps. The series of books was not originally offered as a set, as each was published in different years.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 359 pp View more info
By: Soyinka, Wole
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Ibadan,Nigeria, MBARI: 1963
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 29445
Wraps, very good with some soiling. ; Square 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 118 pages View more info
