[AFRICAN AMERICANA] [POETRY] BROOKS, Gwendolyn; Raymond Brooks (illus)

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Detroit: Broadside Press, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; 16pp. A Fine copy. Rear cover includes a portrait of the author by Raymond Brooks.

Slim volume containing 12 poems originally published in 1975, a title which Brooks would described as "the great failure among all of my books." Nevertheless - a powerful, if brief, collection, containing "The Boy Died In My Alley" and "Boys. Black." While the copyright page states "Tenth Anniversary Edition," it is meant to highlight the tenth anniversary of the Broadside Press (and not this title). An unaccountably elusive title in commerce.

Price: $100.00

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