Newark: Jihad Productions, 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [ii],25,[1]pp. A Fine copy. Poetry collection referencing a range of black musicians, including John Coltrane and James Brown, and incorporating a range of rhythms, cries, and chants in order to present a fresh fusion..... More

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967. First Edition. Broadside, with text printed in black inside a ruled border on white cardstock, measuring 16.75cm x 18cm (6 5/8" x 11"). A Fine copy. First separate printing of Baraka's much-anthologized elegy for Malcolm X, originally printed in the September, 1965 issue of Negro Digest..... More

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); photo-illustrated card wrappers, stapled; 16pp. Signed by the author ("Pearl Cleage") on the title page. Trivial wear to extremities, else very Near Fine. The author's first book. "I believe that a Black Poet has a responsibility to contribute his art..... More

New York: Poets Press, 1967. First, Limited Edition. One of only 25 hand-bound hardcover copies signed by Henderson, from a total edition of 2000. Square octavo (21cm x 17cm); brown bookcloth, titled in gilt on front cover; [48]pp. Fine – an as-new copy. Henderson's first commercially-published collection, and a landmark..... More

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..... More

[San Francisco: Al Kitab Sudan Publications, 1973]. First Edition. Collected short poetical pieces by Marvin X, written between 1969 and 1972. He assures the reader in his introduction that he is not pushing for the women's liberation movement ("Women will be liberated when men are liberated" (p. i)). Octavo (21.5cm.);..... More

New York: Dial Press, 1971. First Edition. Gritty, realistic young-adult novel by an African-American author. Set in Harlem and told from the point of view of a thirteen-year-old girl whose father abandons the family in pursuit of a jazz music career; the story concludes with the girl's violent rape by..... More

New Orleans: Department of English, Xavier University, [1972]. First Edition. Uncommon anthology of New Orleans poets, edited by the briefly prominent Afro-Mexican author Carl Senna, today perhaps best known as the subject of his daughter Danzy Senna's deeply critical tell-all memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night (2009), a book..... More

New York: Barlenmir House, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Small, slim octavo (21cm). Orange cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 56pp. Tiny line of fading to cloth at crown of spine, else a flawless copy, free of markings or notable wear; very Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95 on front..... More