New York & London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Plain blue wraps with black binder tape spine lettered in white with the text printed on rectos only, 8-1/2" x 11". A collection of essays not officially published until 1984 by William Morrow. We are not sure why Garland.....
Boston: Beacon Press, (1995). First Edition. Hardcover. Introduction by August Wilson with contributions by Mosley, Baraka, Gates, Wideman, and others.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981). First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in yellow wraps of this PEN/Faulkner Award winner.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981). First Edition. Wraps. Advance Reading copy in printed wraps from uncorrected proofs with publisher's material laid in. PEN/Faulkner Award winner.
New York: Grossman, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
New York: Grossman, 1975. First Edition. Author's very uncommon first book. Mild sunning to edges of boards.
Photograph. Fine 8" x 10" sepia-toned head shot by noted photographer Jill Krementz, widow of Kurt Vonnegut, of the much-honored poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize. The photograph is SIGNED by the poet with the additional note in Brooks's hand running vertically in the.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1932). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with drawings by E. Simms Campbell. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "For Miss Julia Sheedy/from Sterling A. Brown/June 1932."
(Rockville, Maryland): Quill & Brush, 1994. Lou Stovall. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of remarks on the theme of "Obsession" given at the 1993 PEN/Faulkner Gala. One of 200 numbered hardbound copies SIGNED by the 15 contributors: Maureen Howard, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Plimpton, Francine Prose, Louis Begley, David Bradley.....
New York: E. P. Dutton, (1911). Duncan Smith. First Edition. Collection of tales in dialect revolving around the Black Mammy. Illustrated with 7 plates by Duncan Smith.
New York: Soho Press, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Haitian native and Granta writer's first book INSCRIBED by her to a poet: "It was wonderful/hanging out with/you in Atlanta./I look forward/reading some of/your poems in/Colorado Review./Best Regards," and SIGNED.
Boston: Stratford Co., 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. An uncommon and groundbreaking book that challenged the pervasive stereotypes of African Americans and documented their rarely recognized achievements in American life.
Maastricht: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Pierre Falke. Hardcover. Two octavo volumes (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") bound in yellow linen decorated in blue. Translated by William Robson. Illustrated by Pierre Falke. Printed and with illustrations hand-colored by the Halcyon Press, Holland. Copy #1205 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon.....
New York: Random House, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. A collection of essays by the author of INVISIBLE MAN.
Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. A tribute to the founder of The Hours Press with a prologue by Langston Hughes and selections from Cunard's work as well as contributions by William Carlos Williams, Harold Acton, Henry Moore, and others. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Copy #377 of 500 bound in full brown leather and SIGNED by the author of this book made into a very influential television series.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover.
New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. This novel about a free slave stowaway won the National Book Award.
New York: Atheneum, 1986. First Edition. Printed wraps. Uncorrected Proof in printed wraps of the author's first collection of short stories.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1922). First Edition. Hardcover. "Chosen and edited with an essay on the Negro's Creative Genius" by Johnson who has INSCRIBED and SIGNED the book on the front endpaper: "To Senator Samuel M. Shortridge,/With the sincere admiration of/James Weldon Johnson/November 28,1922." Samuel M. Shortridge was.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985). First Edition. hardcover. Publisher's orange and gray cloth. West Indies author's second book and first novel, SIGNED by her on the half-title page.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's orange and gray cloth. West Indies author's second book and first novel.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983). First Edition. Publisher's orange and green cloth. Her first book. Dustjacket praise by fellow Caribbean author Derek Walcott. INSCRIBED to Emily with "Best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983). First Edition. hardcover. Publisher's orange and green cloth. Her first book. Dustjacket praise by fellow Caribbean author Derek Walcott.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's orange and green cloth. Her first book. Dustjacket praise by fellow Caribbean author Derek Walcott.
