[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

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

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

[Harlem, New York: New Lafayette Theatre, 1972]. Original broadside, screen-printed in colors on gold foil, 11" x 8-1/2". Faint old folds; slight wear to extremities, still complete and unfaded, Very Good or better and very scarce. This fragile and rather striking theatrical broadside announces the premiere of Bullins' 1972 experimental..... More

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

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

Brooklyn: Jamima House Press, 1975. First Edition. Substantial collection, incorporating the entirety of Loftin's first published book (Jumbish, 1972) and adding a selection of new poems. Laudatory blurbs from Wes Brown and Ishmael Reed on rear cover (the latter excerpted from Reed's lengthy, glowing review of the book in the..... More

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

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

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

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

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, [1973]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in green dust jacket; 90pp. Jacket a hint sunned, else Fine. The African American author's first book, a collection of poems about love, beauty, and insights into the human soul. Forms part of the Contemporary Poets of..... More

Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970. First Edition. Small octavo. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 113pp. Fine, unmarked copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper, Near-new. Essays on Shakespeare and the modern African drama by the noted Nigerian poet, playwright, and critic. More