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A DAUGHTER'S GEOGRAPHY
New York: St Martins Press, c1983. Later printing (1991). Tall card covers. pp 74, [6]. Sunning to spine and upper and inner margins of front cover, VG uncreased copy otherwise. Signed by the author pn p. 37 . Poetry. ; Signed by Author
Book ID: 41431More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
AMISTAD (proof copy)
Edition: First printing
New York: Marlowe & Company, 1997. Octavo, light blue card covers. Advance uncorrected proof. VG copy, no owner names. A fine novel, basis of the film, about one of the USA's first battles for civil rights. Mutiny aboard a Spanish slave ship which landed in New London, CT, in 1839. The slaves won their case in the Supreme Court, defended by John Quincy Adams
Book ID: 41737More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
AN INTIMATION OF THINGS DISTANT: the collected fiction of Nella Larsen
New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, c1992. Fourth printing. Card covers. Text paper a little toned, very nearly fine otherwise. No hardcover issue.; Octavo
Book ID: 53913More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
ANY KNOWN BLOOD (inscribed copy)
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: HarperCollins (Harper Collins), 1997. Inscribed by Author; Cloth & boards. Top page edges dusty, else fine in fine jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page and further INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title leaf, signed "Larry" . Second novel of this African-Canadian author, with blurbs on rear panel from Joyce Carol Oates, John Barth, and Austin C. Clarke. Note: bit over 1 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 9531More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
BETSY BROWN: A Novel
Edition: First printing
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Cloth & boards. Fine copy. Beige jacket has sunning to spine and inner margins of panels, else fine. Her second novel, about a 13 year old black girl in St. Louis in 1959, the year the public schools were integrated there.
Book ID: 4486More details Price: USD $18.50 USD $16.65 -
BLACK AS NIGHT
Edition: Firsr printing
Boston: Beacon Press, 1958. Cloth & boards. Small sticker stain on front pastedown, yellowing to page edges, else fine. Price-clippd jacket has sticker stain on front panel, very small rubbed chip at foot of lightly yellowed spine, VG otherwise. A novel of racial violence in Atlanta and Chicago, by a white author. Uncommon book.
Book ID: 41426More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
BLACK BETTY (inscribed)
New York: Norton, (copyright 1994). Inscribed by Author; Second printing. Black cloth and boards. Front cover a mite bowed, else fine. Jacket has soft creases to spine tips, light rubbing and rippling to panels, else fine. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to title page "For ____ thanks for your support. Walter Mosley".; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 9321More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BLACK POWER. A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos.
Edition: Firsr printing
New York: Harper, 1954. Black cloth and maroon board, yellow endpaper maps. Yellowing to page edges, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has tiny rubbed chips to spine ends and outer corners, VG otherwise. The noted African-American novelist's account of his trip to Africa's Gold Coast.
Book ID: 43283More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
BLACK POWER. A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos.
Edition: Firsr printing
New York: Harper, 1954. Black cloth and maroon boards. Slight shelf rubbing to foot of spine, lower edges of covers, outer corners; near fine otherwise, no previous owner marks. Dust jacket spine has some sunning, rubbing to front spine fold, small rubbed chips to spine tips; very small chips to outer corners; in all, VG, flap price intact. The noted African-American novelist's account of his trip to Africa's Gold Coast.
Book ID: 12235More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
BLUES: For All the Changes. New Poems (proof copy)
Edition: Firsr printing
New York: Morrow, 1999. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF in white glossy photographic card covers. Fine copy of this collection of 51 new poems.
Book ID: 6700More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
BORROWED BEAUTY.
Edition: First printing
Porters Lake, Nova Scotia: Pottersfield Press, 1987. (73), (7) pp, card covers (not issued in hardcover). Yellowing to page edges, text paper lightly toned, else a fine copy. A first book of poetry from this African-Canadian author from Nova Scotia. Unsually for a Canadian poetry book, the first printing sold out in a few months' time and was in its 3rd printing by 1990.
Book ID: 7570More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
BUSHMAN'S BREW
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Goathair Press, 1974. pp [36], unpaged, stapled in black and white card covers. Copy for review with sheet laid in. Very small abrasion to upper outer corner of front cover, else fine. First book, a collection of poetry by this South Afican exile, who George Elliott Clarke reckons was the first Africa-born literary author to publish in Canada. Scarce book. Note: light parcel, any default postage rate will be reduced.
Book ID: 42040More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
BUSHMAN'S BREW
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Goathair Press, 1974. pp [36], unpaged, stapled in black and white card covers. Fine copy. First book, a collection of poetry by this South Afican exile, who George Elliott Clarke reckons was the first Africa-born literary author to publish in Canada. Scarce book. Note: light parcel, any default postage rate will be reduced.
Book ID: 42041More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
CALIBAN WITHOUT PROSPERO: essay on Quebec and black literature
Edition: First printing
Erin, ON: Press Porcépic, 1974. Paper issue in red card covers, illustrated endpapers. pp 227, [13]. Illustrated with photos.Spiine lightly darkened, else fine. Author is a Haitian immigrant to Quebec.; Octavo
Book ID: 49489More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
Canada in Us Now
Edition: First printing
Toronto: New Press, 1976. Purports to be "The First Anthology of Black Poetry and Prose in Canada." Blue cloth. pp 144. Fine copy. Jacket has some rubbing to rear panel and lightly to rear spine fold, else fine, no fading to the red spine. Contributions by Austin Clarke, Harold Sonny Ladoo, Charles Roach, Dionne Brand, the editor, Arthur Nortje, and others. This hardcover issue is scarce and the paper issue is not common. ; Octavo
Book ID: 48419More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN.
Edition: First printing
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pictorial dustjacket printed in black and white, with a photo of actors in a scene from the play. Soft bruise to lower outer corners of covers, lightening to inner margins of endpapers, yellowing to fore edges, else fine Jacket has nicks at head of spine, else fine, flap price intact. Author's first play and the first play by an African-American to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
Book ID: 951More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT. The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1967 to the Present.
Edition: First printing
Boston: Little, Brown, 1995. First printing. Cloth & boards. xx, (572) pp. Fine copy. Metallic gilt jacket has minor rubbing, surface scratches, VG+ otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 9249More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
CORNER BOY
Edition: First printing
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957. Black cloth. Slight rubbing to spine ends, light foxing to top page edges, yellowing to fore edges, VG otherwise. Dust jacket has rubbing and shallow chips to ends of spine; shallow chip at top rear panel, rubbing to edges; good. A novel of a black teenage gang leader and dope pusher, it won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award.
Book ID: 41445More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
COTTON COMES TO HARLEM
London: Frederick Muller, 1966. Orange boards, spine gilt lettered. Offset yellowing to free endpapers with a band of tanning to inner margins; light yellowing to page edges; covers just a little splayed; ink price on front free endpaper; else fine, no owner names. Dust jacket shows yellowing to the white spine lettering; tanning to margins of rear panel; think ink line through flap price; minute rubbing to foot of spine; else fine. A comic crime novel featuring Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, the sixth and best known of the series, basis of the film starring Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, and Redd Foxx. ; Octavo
Book ID: 55408More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
DARK EROS
Edition: First printing
New York: St Martins Press, 1997. pp xviii, 397. Fine in fine jacket. An anthology of Black erotic writings.
Book ID: 41449More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55