The Aura & The Umbra
London: Paul Breman, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); original grey pictorial staplebound wrappers; 24pp. About Fine. Heritage Series no. 8. More
Black Arts Movement
Poster: Journal of Black Poetry Press
[San Francisco: Journal of Black Poetry], 1970. Promotional poster for The Journal of Black Poetry Press, a significant Bay Area periodical founded by Joe Goncalves in 1966. The poster features striking Afrofuturist imagery by Harlem-born playwright and artist Benjamin Caldwell (b.1937), depicting a large silhouette of a Black man whose..... More
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Something To Think About - Volume I [all published?]
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
The Road Make to Walk on Carnival Day: The Battle for the West Indian Carnival in Britain
London: Race Today Collective, 1977. First Thus. Quarto (29.5cm); white wrappers illustrated in yellow and blue on the front cover, titled in black; priced 50p on the front cover; 23pp.; minor wear, a Fine copy, being a compilation of articles from 'Race Today' from Jul 1974 to Jun 1977. "Carnival 1976..... More
A Curriculum in Black History for Secondary Schools
Washington DC: Howard University, 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28cm); yellow wrappers, titled in brown; 217pp.; light rubbing only, Near Fine. Typed manuscript from the Department of History at Howard University. Includes lesson plans, activities, bibliographical information, questions and procedures. More
Back Again, Home (confessions of an ex-executive)
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1967. First Edition. Broadside featuring a poem by the Black Arts poet and publisher from his collection Think Black. Issued as Broadside No.16 by Dudley Randall's Broadside Press, which issued nearly 100 poems (roughly one per month) in its Broadside Series. Broadside, with text printed in black..... More
Blue Monday
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1974. First Edition. The Newark, NJ author's first book-length collection of poems, some of which first appeared in the pages of Omega, The Emerson Review, Plowshares, and the Monmouth Review, et al. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); light gray cloth, with titles stamped in black and..... More
Ruby's Black Emeralds
New York: Rannick Playwrights Co., Inc., 1971. First Edition. Frazier's first (and only) book, a slim collection of Afrocentric poetry. OCLC locates two dozen copies in US institutions. First Printing. Slim octavo; illustrated wrappers, stapled; [32pp]. Trace of soil to extremities, else Near Fine. More
Guerilla Warfare in Philly
Elkins Park, PA: Uhuru Publications, 1970. First Edition. The Philadelphia activist and author's first book of poetry. Strongly influenced by the upsurge in black militancy during the early sixties, Jones speaks through his poetry about the experience of being a black man in America. None found in the trade (October..... More
Love...for Adults Only?
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
The Inflammable Desire to Rebel
New York: Vantage Press, [1973]. First Edition. Poetry collection "about black people" by the Panamanian choreographer and dancer, formerly the manager of Thelonious Monk's saxophonist Charlie Rouse. OCLC notes 17 holdings. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; x,[11]-44pp. Light foxing to jacket spine, else Fine. More
Black Words
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. First Edition. First book by the Washington, D.C. author, a graduate of George Washington University, whose poems largely focus on the Black urban experience. First printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; 22pp. Trivial dustiness to wrappers, else Fine. More
A Time of Black Devotion
Ashland, OH: Ashland Poetry Press, 1971. First Edition. Louisiana-born poet, whose work primarily addresses racial tensions, beginning with the poem "The White Man Pressed the Locks," in which a white man locks his car doors while driving "down the concrete vein." Also includes poems dedicated to Frantz Fanon and Martin..... More
After the Killing
Chicago: Third World Press, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); illustrated card wrappers, stapled; 16pp. Fine, unread copy. The Broadside Press founder's fifth collection of poetry, dealing primarily with themes of race, violence, and death. Several of these poems first appeared in the pages of American Negro Poetry..... More
Tell Me How Willing Slaves Be
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
Zizwe: A Little African Boy Born in a Foreign Land. An African Tale
Detroit: Wakweli Publications, [1974]. First Edition. Small quarto (21.5cm.); original yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; printed on yellow cardstock. Fine. Distributed by the Broadside Press. Folktale translated from the original Swahili by N. Mwakikagile. More
Paul Vesey's Ledger
London: Paul Breman, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original grey pictorial wrappers; 20pp.; printed on grey stock. Fine. 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, Elfenbein Zahne..... More
If Words Could Set Us Free: Poems
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
Conversations with Amiri Baraka
Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1994. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red photo-illustrated dust jacket; 271pp. Fine in original shrinkwrap. Bibliographical details provided by OCLC no. 29357470. More
Drumvoices Revue: A Confluence of Literary, Culture & Vision Arts. Volume 12, Numbers 1 & 2 (Spring-Summer-Fall 2004)
Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University, 2004. Octavo (23cm); pictorial wrappers 177pp.; light edgewear only; Near Fine. Includes poems by Gwendolyn Brooks and Asa Hillard. This Issue also highlights Katherine Dunham, New Nigerian Poets and a study on Hip-Hop's inflences on language, Tupac Shakur, Pan-African/Islamic movements and the Black Arts Movement's..... More
Another Kind of Rain: Poems
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in white and grey pictorial dust jacket; [8],86,[2]pp. Jacket fore-edge a bit foxed, else Very Good. Forms part of the Pitt Poetry Series. African-American poet's first published work. More
Mixed Feelings
[St. Albans, NY: Olean Bess, 1972]. First Edition. Poetry collection by African-American author and songwriter, who describes her work in the introduction as expressing "my feelings about love, hate, black white, relative and friend with a trace of prejudice or resolute." A short note at the bottom of the last..... More
Cry at Birth: Collected and Edited by the Bookers
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[3],172pp.; frontispiece reproduction of a collage by William Harris III; additional text illus. Fine. Includes the first published appearance, the poems "Ghetto Service" and "Retrospect," of novelist Pearl Cleage, author of What Looks..... More
Drumvoices Revue: A Confluence of Literary, Culture & Vision Arts. Volume 4, Numbers 1 & 2 (Fall-Winter 1994-95)
Octavo (23cm); pictorial wrappers 144pp.; light edgewear only; Near Fine. Includes poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Henry Dumas, Ira B. Jones and an interview with Katherine Dunham. Special double issue: Reports: Accra, Atlanta East St. Louis, and Haiti. More
Do You Remember..............
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