New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in blue pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; 236pp. Dustwrapper spine toned, a few short chips and tears to extremities, else about Very Good. The South African author's sixth novel, set in modern South African. More

New York: Dial Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 272pp. Jacket extremities chipped and worn, bottom inch of spine starting to separate, a numer of shallow closed tears and tiny losses at edges, red portion of spine quite sunned, brief residue from previously removed..... More

New York: Grove Press / Evergreen, 1989. Second Evergreen Edition. Octavo (23.25cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; [ii],[6],7-165,[7]pp; illus. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. A sharp copy of Acker's best-known novel, written in the 1970's, and first published by Pan Books in London in 1984. More

London: Hamish Hamilton / London Limited Editions, 1992. First U.K. Edition. The author's sixth novel. Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.120. Octavo; 3/4 marbled paper over rust-colored cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's glassine overlay; 400pp, [6]. Fine..... More

London: Vision Press, 1976. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (22cm). Black cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 152pp. Signed by the author on a laid-in bookplate. A Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £3.40 at base of front flap), lightly rubbed and a shade sun-faded on..... More

Roxbury, MA: Scoham Bookshelf, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original green printed staplebound wrappers; unpaged. Fine. Collection of six folktales and poems, including "An Ecstasy of African Witchcraft" and "The Story of Palm Wine." More

Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, Publisher, 1983. First, Limited Edition. Regular issue. Number 28 of 64 copies in wrappers, from a total edition of 100 copies (There was a simultaneous lettered issue in boards). Octavo (23cm); olive-green thick-paper French wrappers, with paper title label to front cover; 22pp. Title page..... More

New York: Harmony Books, 1981. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); black paper-covered boards and teal cloth backstrip, with titling and decorations stamped in metallic pink on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],250pp. Slight forward lean, faint foxing to text edges, with some gentle sunning to upper and lower..... More

Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1990. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed boards (hardcover), dustjacket; x,103pp. Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $17.95 on front flap), crisp and unworn, Fine. A new-appearing copy. First translation into English of the Peruvian poet's first book and only prose work..... More

London: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934. First Edition. One of 1,000 copies. Large quarto (31.5cm); publisher's dark brown buckram, with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover, and a map of "The Black Belt of America" on rear cover; dark brown topstain; viii,[2],3-855pp; with numerous half-tone..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); black pebbled boards and pale grey cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xii],223,[5]pp. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with just a hint..... More

Edinburgh: Payback Press, 1996. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, a trade paperback original. Octavo (19.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; xii,237,[7]pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks: "Miss Brooks – Forgive the N..... word, this was written a long time ago. (But I'd..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); publisher's galley sheets, comb-bound into printed covers; pp.1-93a. A few slivers of loss to comb-binding, light wear and toning to wrapper extremities, with some mild dustiness to same; contents clean; Very Good+. Second novel by Boles (1943-2012), a Chicago-born African American..... More