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New York:: Pantheon,, (2001). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of "erudite, provocative, and iconoclastic essays, reviews, and interviews. . He writes about New York in the 1920s and about the beginnings of his career as a writer. . . he assesses the achievements of Duke Ellington and William… Read more about this item

New York:: Morrow,, 1986.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (light toning, but appears unread.). First printing. First novel by this Californi-born African American poet and writer - the story of a pregnant slave woman who led an uprising. Although this book is fiction, the events and characters in this story are based on… Read more about this item

Boston:: Beacon,, (1998.). Very good.. Trade paperback. The first novel by this African American writer and poet to be published in over 20 years - and the first original work of fiction to be published by this long established press. A far more hopeful novel than Jones' earlier works - as indicated by the title … Read more about this item

New York:: Doubleday,, (2021.). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A novel of "heists, shakes and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s.," a follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize winning novel 'The Nickel Boys.' Whitehead has won an impressive number of awards, including the Guggenheim and the MacArthur "genius"… Read more about this item

New York:: Hyperion Press,, (1996). SIGNED hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. 4th printing. Author's second novel - continues the adventures of Stevie, exploring her new turf - San Francisco in the 70's. INSCRIBED on the title page. 324 pp.

New York:: Macmillan,, 1939.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in black cloth with red endpapers (some toning to the pages, rubbing to the lettering on the spine, but a tight and straight copy).. First printing. The third novel by this writer closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, although at the time this was written he was… Read more about this item

New York:: Plume,, (1987). Near fine.. Trade paperback. Expanded Twenty-fifth Anniversary edition, one which restores the cuts made to the original play. Includes a new introduction by Robert Nerniroff who comments "This is the most complete edition of A Raisin in the Sun ever published. Like the American Playhouse production for television, it restores to the play two… Read more about this item

New York:: Samuel F. French, Inc.,, (1986). Very good in printed red wrappers (some rubbing to the covers, but a tight and clean copy) . Trade paperback. Hansberry's second play in a revised and expanded edition. Includes a new introduction by Robert Nerniroff, the producer of the original production who comments that Hansberry, in the midst of her… Read more about this item

New York:: Chester House,, (1985). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket.. First printing. Novel of Southern life between 1859-1877, from before the Civil War through Reconstruction, one which combines the story of a matriarch determined to protect her family who nevertheless becomes involved in the tragedy of the newly freed… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA:: Creative Arts Book Co.,, (1987). SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in glossy magenta wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. A collection of 14 short stories by this award-winning St. Louis-born African American poet. SIGNED on the title page. Recipient of the Washington State Governor's Award. 202 pp

Cambridge, MA:: Harvard University Press,, 2003.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book which attempts to uncover the truth behind the legend of Stack Lee and the incident that led to murder in 1895. Brown tracks the legend through variants of the song "from early ragtime versions of the '20s, to… Read more about this item

New York:: Ballantine,, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Author's second novel (third book) one which follows the lives of four generations of African-American women from the end of the Civil War to the early 21st century as it explores the hidden effects of slavery. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper, and… Read more about this item

Boston:: Beacon Press,, (1963, c 1955.). Very good (toning to covers) . Trade paperback. Baldwin's second book, a collection of essays - his first non-fiction book, originally published in 1955. 175 pp,

New York:: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, , (2020). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A personal and moving memoir by this award-winning poet, the story of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather - a book in which she… Read more about this item

New York:: Putnam,, 1994.. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Much less common than the hardcover first edition, which had a proposed first printing of 100,000 copies according to the cover of this book. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) African-American writer's best selling novel, set in Los Angeles after the Rodney King riots,… Read more about this item

New York:: Pocket Books,, (1968). First edition -. Just about fine in illustrated wrappers - appears unread.. First paperback printing. Pocket Cardinal Edition 50184. A vintage paperback edition of McKay's best known work, originally published in 1928. 180 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

New York:: Targ Editions,, 1980.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in original white cloth-backed black boards. . Limited, signed first edition. First US appearance of this work originally published in Europe in 1954; an attractive limited edition with a drawing on the title page by Marc Hinkley. Designed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press and printed… Read more about this item

Philadelphia:: Lippincott,, 1968.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dustjacket (prev owner's name, a few scattered marginal notations.). First printing. Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia:: Lippincott,, 1968.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Good overall in a near fine dustjacket (a tight copy, but highlighting and marginal brackets on several pages). First printing. Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell… Read more about this item

New York:: Random House,, (1976). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant, offsetting on endpapers, toning to cream background of dj) . First printing. Her second novel. Toni Morrison, who had only published two novels herself at that time, was her editor at Random House for both of her first… Read more about this item