SPEAK MY NAME. BLACK MEN ON MASCULINITY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
Boston: Beacon Press, (1995). First Edition. Hardcover. Introduction by August Wilson with contributions by Mosley, Baraka, Gates, Wideman, and others.
African-American Literature
THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT
New York: Harper & Row, (1981). First Edition. Wraps. Uncorrected Proof in yellow wraps of this PEN/Faulkner Award winner.
THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT
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.
SOUTH STREET
New York: Grossman, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
SOUTH STREET
New York: Grossman, 1975. First Edition. Author's very uncommon first book. Mild sunning to edges of boards.
SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH BY JILL KREMENTZ
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.....
SOUTHERN ROAD
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."
OBSESSION
(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.....
BYPATHS IN DIXIE: FOLK TALES OF THE SOUTH
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.
BREATH, EYES, MEMORY
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.
"THE ISLAND WOMEN OF PARIS"
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1990. Broadside. Handset 11" x 15" broadside attractively printed in red and black. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by the former United States Poet Laureate.
THE GIFT OF BLACK FOLK. THE NEGROES IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA
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.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
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.....
GOING TO THE TERRITORY
New York: Random House, (1986). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. A collection of essays by the author of INVISIBLE MAN.
NANCY CUNARD: BRAVE POET, INDOMITABLE REBEL 1896-1965
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.....
ROOTS
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.
SIMPLE SPEAKS HIS MIND
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover.
MIDDLE PASSAGE
New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. This novel about a free slave stowaway won the National Book Award.
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE
New York: Atheneum, 1986. First Edition. Printed wraps. Uncorrected Proof in printed wraps of the author's first collection of short stories.
THE BOOK OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY
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.....
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX-COLORED MAN
Boston: Sherman, French & Co., 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-decorated cloth. Johnson's first book, a fictional autobiography that appeared anonymously and explored the issue of a black man passing for white in America, serving as a launchpad for many later novels exploring the question of what it means to.....
ANNIE JOHN
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.
ANNIE JOHN
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's orange and gray cloth. West Indies author's second book and first novel.
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
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.
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER
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.