Chicago: Afro-Am Publishing Company, (1963). First Edition. First printing. Quarto; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; x, 182pp; illus. Clean, straight, and tight, free of markings or notable wear; about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95 on front flap), slightly ragged at extremities but with no significant losses, Very Good. A...... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1927. First Edition. First trade edition of Cullen's second published poetry collection, concentrating on the themes of love, death, and the American racial situation. It contains some of his best-known works including "Incident," "Near White," "Threnody for a Brown Girl," and others. BLOCKSON 5065;..... 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

Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1989. First English Language Edition. First English language printing. Quarto (29.5cm); black textured paper wrappers with gilt text in full color/metallic pictorial dust jacket; 98 color plates, 134 illustrations total. Amano's fourth published collection features examples of his exquisite fantasy artwork (acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink) in..... More

New York: Stein and Day, 1963. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (33.5cm.); turquoise boards quarterbound in black publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front panel; [27pp]. Front pastedown signed and inscribed by William Archibald. Text block overall sound, with intermittent toning, stray marks, and light denting. Boards have..... More

New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1959. First American Edition. Slim quarto (26cm); light green pictorial cloth, stamped in black, in yellow pictorial dustwrapper; [46]pp. Boards and dustwrapper dampstained/wrinkled, rubbed about extremities; short tears to dustwrapper upper edges; moderate soiling and toning; inner flap price-clipped. Textblock has mild handling wear..... More

New York: Random House, [1956]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23.25cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket, black topstain; xv,[5],108pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Some general edge wear to jacket extremities, most notably at spine ends, spine rather sunned, else Very Good and sound. BLOOMFIELD & MENDELSON A37a. More

West Kingston, R.I. Donald M. Grant, 1978. First Trade Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto. Inscribed by Alicia Austin on title page, "To Elisabeth/with love," with small original drawing of a winged heart. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; unpaged; 40 color plates and numerous b/w text illustrations. A tight, Near Fine copy..... More

New York: Duenewald Printing Corporation, [1943]. First Thus. Small, slim quarto (22cm.); publisher's pictorial spiral-bound paper-covered boards; [18]pp.; color illus. throughout, including six moveable plates. Boards rubbed with brief exposure to corners, small paper flaw to upper cover not affecting text, else Very Good, internally fine and unused. A moveable..... More

New York: Weekly Masses Co., Inc., 1937. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Marguerite Young, Ivor Montagu, Lou Partnow, Kenneth Rexroth, Victor Gollancz, Henry Hart, Granville Hicks, and others, with illustrations by William Sanderson, John Mackey, Theodore Scheel, Ben Yomen, Herb Kruckman, and Sylvia Wald, et al. Quarto (31cm); illustrated..... More

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1971. Limited Edition. Two volumes. No. 310 of 1500 copies, hand-numbered on colophon, signed by illustrator Pierre-Yves Trémois on colophon of v.1. First volume (English text): quarto (289.5cm); full maroon cloth with printed titles to spine and front cover; 201pp; illus. Second volume (French..... More

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. First Trade Edition. An extraordinary association copy of this exquisitely-illustrated edition of Baum's beloved 1900 novel. Among his many accomplishments, Holder (1930-2014) was responsible for directing and designing the original Broadway production of The Wiz, an African-American retelling of The Wizard..... More