[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] JONES, LeRoi (aka Amiri Baraka)

Black Magic: Sabotage - Target Study - Black Art. Collected Poetry 1961-1967

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969. First Edition. First printing. Cloth issue (simultaneously issued in wrappers). Octavo ( 21cm). Patterned white cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 225pp. Tight, internally clean copy, with foxing to binding on spine and front cover; Very Good. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), lightly rubbed at folds and spine ends, shallow chip to rear panel; Very Good. A presentable but not pristine copy.

Collects Jones' work written up to 1966, excluding the poems in his two earlier commercially-published collections, Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note and The Dead Lecturer. In the foreword Baraka characterizes his work after this period as "self-consciously spiritual, and stronger. I leave this 'poetry' at 1966 because I did not want to give the devils all of it." A key work of the Black Arts Movement; the cloth issue must have been very small, as it has been hard to find for as long as we've been selling books.

Price: $500.00

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