JOANS, Ted

A Black Manifesto in Jazz Poetry and Prose

London: Calder & Boyars, 1971. First Edition. First impression. Issued simultaneously in paper and cloth; the cloth issue is far scarcer. 12mo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 92,(2)pp. A fine copy. In the original dusrtwrapper, unclipped (priced £1.50 at base of front flap), very faintly soiled on rear panel, still very Near Fine. Issued as no. 8 in Calder-Boyars' Signature series.

First publication in Britain of Joans' Afro-surrealist writings – a compilation for which there was no American equivalent. Joans' breakthrough work, Black Pow-Wow, had been issued in the U.S. a year earlier.

Price: $250.00

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