PLAYING IN THE DARK
Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Nobel Prize winner's nonfiction work on "Whiteness and the Literary Imagination." SIGNED on the title page by the author.
Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Nobel Prize winner's nonfiction work on "Whiteness and the Literary Imagination." SIGNED on the title page by the author.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Her second, and many believe most powerful, novel.
New York: Pantheon, (1998). Robert Bergman. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in black cloth. Introduction by Toni Morrison and afterword by Meyer Schapiro, the only text in this absolutely stunning collection of color photographic portraits, mostly of street people, which Schapiro says "bring to mind some of.....
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. His first Easy Rawlins mystery and first book.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's second book. The dustwrapper was designed by Chris Van Allsburg.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. First Edition. wraps. Uncorrected Proof in pictorial wraps. First book by this African-American author who left a successful Wall Street career to pursue writing.
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1985). First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected proof in green wraps.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1970). First Edition. hardcover. Author's second book and first novel.
Tuskegee, AL: 7 Dec. 1897. Autograph. A fine quote--"Be too great to be little"--on a 6-1/2" x 8" page removed from an autograph album SIGNED and dated by Washington in Tuskegee. The verso bears an unknown signature as does the top of the page that Washington has signed, but this.....
London: Allison & Busby, (1984). First British Edition. Hardcover. Published in 1981 in America in a paperback edition, this is the first hardcover edition.
New York: Harcourt Brace Johanovich, (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. His third and arguably best book.