American Smooth: Poems
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (21cm); pictorial card wrappers; [14],143,[1]pp. A Fine, unread copy. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (21cm); pictorial card wrappers; [14],143,[1]pp. A Fine, unread copy. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1906. First Edition. First Printing, with "Published, October, 1906" on copyright page. Octavo (22.25cm); red paisley patterned cloth, with title labels mounted to upper spine and front cover; top edge gilt; [9],10-119,[1]pp, with photographs throughout by Leigh Richmond Miller, and decorative elements and vignettes..... More
Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxii,214,[4]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, with some pinpoint wear to extremities. "The first book-length study to explore the impact of Charles Chesnutt's sophisticated, innovative narrative..." (from front flap)..... More
New Orleans: Black Collegiate Services, 1974. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Edward D. Irons, Henry Sypher, Vincent Harding, Diana Fallis, Brenda Reese, Julian Bond, Mae H. Nash, Kalamu Ya Salaam, and others, with an interview with Jesse Jackson. DANKY 808. Quarto (28cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 56pp; illus. Light wear..... More
New York: The Free Press, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); turquoise cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; xx,604pp. Spine ends nudged, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), lightly edgeworn, with a fingernail-sized indentation toward the center of the front joint; Very Good+ or..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1966. First Edition. The African American author and sculptor's second and best-known book, a tragic coming-of-age novel that served as the basis for Joseph Manduke's 1975 film Cornbread, Earl and Me, starring NBA star Jamaal Wilkes and Laurence Fishburne in his film debut..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (27.5cm); tan paper and brown cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; unpaged; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket (priced $9.95 at upper front flap, with lower corner of same clipped), with light shelfwear and..... More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1971. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white, brown, and yellow on spine; dustjacket; viii,184pp. Fine in a jacket that's Very Good+ or better, lightly edgeworn, with a hint of sunning to spine, and a small tear..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Octavo (21.75cm); blue paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and author's initials embossed onto front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; [viii],214,[2]pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket..... More
New York: One & One Communications, Inc., 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 41pp; illus. Inscribed on the title page to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez and his wife: "To Bob + Maddie / With special warmth + best wishes –..... More
New York: Vantage Press, 1976. First Edition. The African-American poet's first (and only) collection, which "flooded her mind as she looked at the shambles in which Watergate and its aftermath left the country." Intended, she says, "to replace carrying a picket sign or participating in some demonstration or planting a...... More
[Richmond, IN: Paul Graphics, Inc.], 1977. First Edition. Collection of sermons by Harvey (1911-1976), an A.M.E. Church pastor and educator who, together with his wife, Claire Collins Harvey (1916-1995), were heavily active in civil rights causes in Mississippi and Louisiana. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [viii],188,[4]pp; illus. Signed by editor..... More
Paris: Corrêa, 1952. First French Edition. First French edition of Himes's second book, issued the same year as his emigration from the U.S. to Paris. Originally published as Lonely Crusade by Knopf in 1947. A penetrating and subtle left-wing (but intensely anti-Communist) novel concerning race conflict at a California aircraft..... More
Chicago: Jamaa Scenes Inc., 1971. First Edition. Promotional poster for Jamila-Ra's The Good Book, a volume of black revolutionary poems by the Chicago-born poet and member of the Nommo group. OCLC notes 2 holdings (Yale, U.Delaware). Original illustrated poster, offset printed in two colors on white stock, measuring 35.5cm x...... More
New York: Vantage Press, [1985, 1990]. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [8],55pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket spine a bit sunned, light soil to rear panel, else Fine. Collection of poems for children by the African American San Francisco-based educator. More
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Second Printing. Octavo (23.75cm); russet cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,344,[2]pp; illus. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. "Leading historians of the black experience offer compelling biographical accounts of seveteen nineteenth-century black leaders in this collection..... More
Los Angeles: Crescent Publications, 1978. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publlisher's slip laid in. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; iv,155pp. A few faint streaks to rear cover, else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, showing light wear, and some pronounced foxing to..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition. McKay's second novel, the story of "a black, happy-go-lucky vagabond's life among the drifters who live along the waterfront in Marseilles during the 1920's; his friend, Ray, is his antithesis (and resembles the author), an intellectual in search of himself, a...... More
Athens & London: The University of Georgia Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.75cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; xiv,261,[5]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with some trivial external wear. "Looking anew at Chesnutt's public and private writings, his fiction and nonfiction..... More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1951. First Edition. Motley's second novel, a "disillusioned picture of disillusioned Chicagoans - laborers, strikers, members of minority groups, veterans of World War II - persons who fancy themselves to be in a cheap, betrayed world" (Coan, p.110). RIDEOUT, p.300. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); taupe cloth..... More
Washington DC: Bits N' Pieces, Inc., 1973. First Edition. Attractive issue of this monthly magazine focussed on the development of Black art, theatre, and culture. Contets include articles on Jon Lucien and Black musicians, a conversation with Sam Green Lee, and poetry, et al. Not in DANKY. Slim octavo (21.5cm);..... More
Norwalk, CT: Silvermine Publishers, (1970). First Edition. First printing, cloth issue. Small octavo (21.5cm); tan sized linen, titled in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [11],12-106pp. Fine and unmarked, in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95 on front flap), rubbed and with a couple of tiny chips to extremities..... More
New York: New Century Publishers, 1952. First Edition. Slim octavo (19.5cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Light wear and rubbing, some oxidation to staples, with two ink marks to margins; Very Good. "A call for unrestricted Negro suffrage and representation, and for the smashing of Jim Crow in our political..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First Edition. The author's second novel, set in a small Connecticut town in which a returning veteran discovers his wife's infidelity. "We see the small, sleepy town through the eyes of the local druggist, an elderly, kindly man who owns the respect and and confidence..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First Edition. The author's second novel, set in a small Connecticut town in which a returning veteran discovers his wife's infidelity. "We see the small, sleepy town through the eyes of the local druggist, an elderly, kindly man who owns the respect and and confidence..... More