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Universal Black Writer Volume I, Number 8 (Summer 1981)

By: N/A

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Universal Black Writer: 1981

Seller ID: 29367

Binding: Periodical

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 pp
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The Universal Black Writer Volume I, Number 10 (Spring 1982)

By: N/A

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The Universal Black Writer: 1982

Seller ID: 29368

Binding: Periodical

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 pp
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Black Dimensions in Contemporary American Art

By: Atkinson, J. Edward, ed.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Plume Books (New American Library): 1971

Seller ID: 30386

Binding: Hardcover

Wraps, soiling with a few stray marks on the covers, otherwise near fine. A nice collection with each artist given a biography and one full color illustration. Not only artists like Margaret Burroughs and Lois Mallou-Jones but many younger and not well-known artists are presented. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pp
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Is Love Ever Enough

By: Bacon, Gloria Jackson

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Champaign, Finial Press: 1987

Seller ID: 30387

Binding: Softcover

Wraps in dust jacket, one of 2000 copies signed by the author on the first blank; on the verso, she has also signed and inscribed the book. Near fine with little bump/tear to the fore-edge, in very good dust jacket with small stain in upper right corner of the front panel and a bumb/tear at the fore-edge of the rear flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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Report Of The January 1970- Grand Jury United States District Court Northern District Court of Illinois Eastern Division

By: Black Panther Party

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Washingon, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office: 1970

Seller ID: 29506

Binding: Softcover

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...
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Surging

By: Brown, Charles E.; Jimison, Robert M (Photographs)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Terre Haute, Afro-American Cultural Center, Indiana State University: 1973

Seller ID: 29874

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, a near fine copy but for slight sunning to spine, signed by the author on the inside front cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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Revolution and Education

By: Cleaver, Eldridge

Price: $65.00

Publisher: n.p., n.p.:

Seller ID: 30384

Binding: Softcover

Pale green wrap with author's photo on cover, very good with old crease, minor soiling and sunning at edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 8 pp
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Art in the Court of the Blue Fag [Sparrow 59, August, 1977)

By: Coleman, Wanda

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press: 1977

Seller ID: 29570

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, author's first book, issued in the monthly Sparrow series by Black Sparrow Press as issue No. 59. Fine copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; (12) pp
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Raps

By: Duckett, Alfred; Wesley, Len (Drawings)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Nelson-Hall Company: 1973

Seller ID: 30493

Binding: Hardcover

Fine copy in fine dust jacket but for very minor scuffs to rear panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 68 pp
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Blue Monday

By: Forbes, Calvin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Middletown, Wesleyan University Press: 1974

Seller ID: 29864

Binding: Hardcover

Fine in near fine dust jacket with rubbing near the spine Advance review copy with slip laid in.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 63 pp
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Too Much Midnight

By: Franklin, Krista

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Chicago, Haymarket Books: 2020

Seller ID: 31140

Binding: Hardcover

A fine copy, issued without dust jacket. Poetry, painting and collage by this Black artist/poet who identifies strongly with the Chicago Surrealist Group. Many poems and profusely illustrated. ; The Breakbeat Poets Series; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 103 pages
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Across the Mutual Landscape

By: Gilbert, Christopher

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Port Townsend, Graywolf Press: 1984

Seller ID: 29876

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, fine copy. Copyright page reads "First Printing 1984" and beneath that "98765432" but it is an advance review copy with slip laid in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 91 pp
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Blacklist

By: Harris, Helen Y.; Parks, Lanetta; Story, Lillie (compilers)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Enoch Pratt Free Library: 1969

Seller ID: 30391

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, very good with small chip at upper left corner of front cover and 1" split at the head of the spine. Suggested reading, arranged by categories like Black Rage, Black Power: Profiles in Courage, Black Beauty, Growing Up, etc. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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Corrida de Toros

By: Hayden, Robert

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Paul Bremen: 1960

Seller ID: 29857

Binding: Folded card

Stiff card twice folded to make six panel, fine. Their are multiple printings of this holiday card from the Bremens; this one has "Robert Hayden" in lower right corner of front panel,and a limitation statement showing this one to be an unnumbered copy of 100 copies. Contains Three poems one on the bull, one on the matador and one on the bullfight itself. ; 8" x 4¼" folded; 1 pp
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I Hate All You Artists Especially You White Boys Pretending to Be Black Hipsters

By: Johnson, Brad

Price: $15.00

Publisher: n.p., No Press: 1985

Seller ID: 29875

Binding: Softcover

Wraps, near fine copy with tiny corner crease.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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My Name is Afrika

By: Kgositsile, Keorapetse; Brooks, Gwendolyn (intro)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Company: 1971

Seller ID: 29437

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Born of a Woman. New and Selected Poems

By: Knight, Etheridge

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1980

Seller ID: 30496

Binding: Hardcover

Fine in near fine dust jacket with rubbing to spine ends and corners, an advance review copy with slip and biographical note laid in.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 120 pp
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Born Of A Woman. New And Selected Poems

By: Knight, Etheridge

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1980

Seller ID: 30497

Binding: Hardcover

Fine in fine dust jacket, an advance review copy with slip and biographical note laid in. This copy signed and inscribed by the author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 120 pp
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