Detroit: Broadside Press, 1966 [but 1967]. First Edition. Broadside, with text printed in white on black (recto), and black on white (verso), measuring 19.75cm x 27.75cm (7 5/8" x 10 7/8"). A Fine copy. Single poem from Alhamisi's 1966 chapbook of the same name, distributed by the Detroit-based Vaughn's Bookstore..... More

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967. First Edition. Broadside, with text printed in black on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Trivial wear and handling; very Near Fine. Broadside featuring a poem by the Black Arts poet and publisher from his collection Think Black. Issued as Broadside No.16 by..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1970. Early printing of the wrappered issue, lacking the "First Edition" statement and with $2.95 price sticker over the printed $2.45 price at upper right corner of front cover. Light wear to extremities, a few faint creases to wrappers; contents clean; Very Good+. The..... More

New York: Vantage Press, 1976. First Edition. Collection of parables written by the native Pittsburgh author, the book being a vehicle to "propagate the ideals Allah revealed to him." As best we can tell, a second volume was never published. Scarce; we find no examples for sale in the trade..... More

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (20.75cm); gray cloth, with titles stamped in black and blue on spine; dustjacket; 64pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.00), with some light foxing to spine and right edge of front panel. The author's..... More

New York: Vantage Press, [1976]. First Edition. Love poetry by California-based African American author and registered nurse. OCLC locates 5 copies only (NYU, Illinois, Southern Mississippi, Radford, and Farleigh Dickinson). Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in pink pictorial dust jacket; [10],34pp. Jacket spine a bit faded, some light foxing to..... More

DeRidder, LA: Energy BlackSouth Press, [1976]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm.); original tan printed staplebound wrappers; unpaged. Fine. Errata slip laid in. Hoo-Doo Chapbookseries, no. 1 of a projected 13 volumes. African-American author's first poetry collection, published by Amos Zu-Bolton's Energy BlackSouth Press. More

London: Paul Breman, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); original grey pictorial wrappers; 20pp.; printed on grey stock. A Fine copy. Heritage Series, vol. 27. Selected poems from previously published collections by the Ohio-born poet and World War II Lieutenant. "Paul Vesey" refers to the pseudonym under which Allen's first book..... More

Jericho, NY: Exposition Press, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original buckram in white pictorial dust jacket; 59pp. In original shrinkwrap. Fine. Virginia-born African American social worker and author, whose poetry "reflects the Black renaissance which is etching itself so deeply on the conscience and consciousness of today" (upper jacket flap)..... More

Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review Press, 1974. First Edition. Collection of verse by the Philadelphia-born African American poet, illustrated throughout, chiefly centered around the Black experience in the inner city. Octavo (20.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; 39,[1]pp; illus. A Fine, unread copy. More

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1972. First Edition. The Louisiana-born author's first book of poetry, presented as a collection of memories from her life and marriage. Cain also wrote a novel, White Bastards, published by Vantage Press. Octavo (21.5cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [iv],100pp. Fine..... More

[Boston]: Beacon Press, 1971. First Edition. Collection of photo-illustrated poems, billed as the author's first book, though Cornish had previously published a chapbook of the same title in 1967. With a preface by Ruth Whitman. Octavo (21cm); 3/4 blind-stamped paper over brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine;..... 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