[Newark, NJ ?]: [Revolutionary Communist League (M-L-M)], [@1976]. First Edition. Pamphlet. Stapled light blue wraps (8-1/2" x 11") consisting of mimeographed sheets, 60 pages. This is Baraka's own copy with the bottom of the front cover SIGNED by him with the notations: "By the/Afro-American Commission/of RCL/Amiri Baraka,/Chairman" and the addition.....
[Newark, NJ ]: Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger, 1980. First Edition. Broadside. A SIGNED broadside (9-1/2" x 13") of this poem printed on the dedication of the author's reading at Walker Art Center. Copy #13 of 85. We also have copy #12 in similar condition.
[Newark, NJ ]: [C.A.P.], [@1974]. First Edition. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps (5-9/16" x 8-5/8"), 60 pages. This is Baraka's own copy with the top of the front cover SIGNED by him with the notation: "my text." A publication from CAP (Congress of Afrikan People) delineating the changes in the organization the.....
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.....
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 Publishers, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book.
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."
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.
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.....
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, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. This novel about a free slave stowaway won the National Book Award.
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. Hardcover. 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.
New York: Harper & Row, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author filling most of the front free endpaper: "To David Hunter/Whose moral and financial/support have been of/inestimable value for the/continuance of my humble/efforts/Martin Luther King Jr."
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Author's first book. Long blurb by Ralph Ellison on the rear of the dustwrapper.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Author's first book. Long blurb by Ralph Ellison on the rear of the dustwrapper.
