[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

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

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

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

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. First Edition. Arkansas-born African American poet's first book, at the time a PhD candidate at the University of Detroit. Includes several Detroit-themed poems. BAILEY, p.26. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers, stapled; 27pp. Publication information rubber-stamped on verso of front wrapper, trivial wear to..... More

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1973. First Edition. The Philadelphia activist and author's second book of poetry, following his debut volume Guerilla Warfare in Philly. Jones, strongly influenced by the upsurge in black militancy during the early sixties, speaks through his poetry about the experience of being a black man in..... 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

London: Paul Breman, 1972. First Edition. The Atlantic City, NJ author's first and only book, published seven years after his death in 1964 as a result of a drug overdose. Carrington spent most of his life from age 16 until his death in various jails and reformatories; it was in..... More