Collection: All Books

Reprint of the second and final novel, a murder mystery originally published in 1932, by a key participant in the Harlem Renaissance literary movement. NY: Arno Press & The New York Times, 1971. 316pp. 8vo. Tan cloth; black spine titles; dust jacket. Offsetting, apparently adhesive-related,... More

Cambridge, MA: Hovey Street Press / Red Prison Movement, [1973]. Second printing, which expands the first edition from 64 to 120 pages. Saddle-stapled in matte printed wraps, 10-1/2 x 6-7/8 in. 118pp. With numerous black-and-white photo reproductions and illustrations by Maria Moon, and a color... More

Attractive third printing of this transcript of a two-hour conversation between Baldwin and Giovanni, originally broadcast as a 1971 episode of the Soul! series on New York public television station WNET. Preface by Ida Lewis. Afterword by Orde Coombs. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1973.... More

Anthology of poems by eleven gay black poets, each with a brief biographical introduction. Contributors include Robert E. Penn, Thomas Glave, G. Winston James, and Brad Johnson. Conceived by Assotto Saint. Edited by Vega Press. Sicklerville, NJ: Vega Press, 1995. First edition. Perfect-bound in glossy... More

East St. Louis, IL: Black River Writers, 1975. Introduction by Eugene Redmond. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 in. 34pp. SIGNED and inscribed, at length, by Jefferson on the title-page. Poems hand-lettered, with reproduced black-and-white line drawings by Jefferson throughout. Light toning and soiling... More

Los Angeles: The Guild of Tutors Press, 1978. First edition. Perfect-bound in printed red wraps, 10-7/8 x 8-3/8 in. 120pp., with index of titles and first lines. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photo reproductions. Very good (+), with light wear to edges and ends of the... More

Later printing of Knight's first book of poems, written while serving an eight year sentence in Indiana State Prison. Preface by Gwendolyn Brooks. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1988. Eighth printing. Saddle-stapled in printed white wraps, 8-3/8 x 5-3/8 in. 30pp. Fine copy. With a laid-in Broadside... More

First publication in book form of the American abolitionist and journalist’s only novel, a story of radical Black insurrection originally published serially in The Weekly Anglo-African from November 1961 to May 1962. Introduction by Floyd J. Miller. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. Olive boards backed with... More

Signed copy of this collection of 30 black-and-white reproductions of Baraka’s mixed-media artworks ("painted poems") dating back to the 1950s. Issued, according to the introduction, in an edition of 450 copies, on the occasion of an exhibit of Baraka’s work at the University of Charleston... More

A scarce work of Black pedagogy, originally written as Caldwell's master's thesis at Columbia University, in which she argues that the prevailing modes of education fail to meet the needs of Black students. Instead, while acknowledging the distastefulness of the position, she contends that segregated... More

First mass-market printing of Baldwin's second collection of essays. NY: Dell Books, 1963. First edition thus (stated "First Dell printing—August, 1963"). Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 6-3/8 x 4-1/4 in. All textblock edges stained green. 190pp. Light edgewear. One dog-eared page corner. Light scuffing to rear... More

First edition of this important early publication from Dudley Randall's Broadside Press, a collection of poems commemorating Malcolm X. With contributions from Margaret Walker (a reading of whose included poem "On Malcolm X" was the inspiration for the book), Gwendolyn Brooks, Ted Joans, Robert Hayden,... More

A collection of first-person accounts by sixteen of the twenty-one Black Panther members indicted in 1969 for an alleged plan to bomb public buildings in New York City. All of the defendants were ultimately found not guilty following a lengthy and very public eight-month trial.... More

First mass-market printing of the second novel by the Black American writer, a story about the love affair between a middle-aged man and a younger female thief, both white. NY: Signet/The New American Library, 1951. First edition thus (stated first printing). Perfect-bound in printed color... More

First mass-market printing of Baldwin's second novel, a complex examination of gay love playing out against a Parisian backdrop. NY: Signet/New American Library, 1959. First edition thus (stated first printing). Perfect-bound in pictorial color wraps, 7-1/8 x 4-1/4 in. Textblock edges stained red. 144pp. Light... More

Uncommon cloth issue of the second book of verse by the American poet, who was the first Black writer to hold the office now known as the US Poet Laureate. NY: October House, 1966. Octavo, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. 79pp. Brown paper boards;... More

Chicago: The Geographical Institute Press, 1939. First edition. Octavo, 6 x 9 in. 159pp. Blue cloth boards stamped in gold on spine and front panel; lacking the dust jacket, if issued with one. Signed and inscribed by Ford on the front free endpaper: "To my... More

A posthumous selection of fourteen short stories about Black life in the South by the American poet and novelist, a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance. NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1973. First edition. Octavo (5.75 x 8.5 in.); 238pp.; black cloth boards; silver spine... More

First printing of Butler's first book, a science fiction novel about telepaths set in the far distant future. Chronologically the final of five volumes in the Patternist sequence of novels. NY: Doubleday & Company, 1976. First edition, stated, with correct "G24" gutter code on p.185.... More

Debut novel by the expatriate American journalist and writer, written at the age of twenty while Smith was serving as an Army typist in occupied Berlin. The plot centers on the romance between a Black American solider and a white German woman, and explores the... More

London / NY: Marion Boyars, 1988. First edition. Octavo (8.75 x 5.5 in.); 170pp. + 6pp. advertisements at rear; black textured paper boards, in dust jacket. Light bumping to spine ends and rear board corners, else fine in a near fine jacket with some fading... More

Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2009. First edition. Octavo; xiii + 191pp.; tan cloth, in dust jacket. Signed by Petry on the title page. Petry’s memoir explores the life and legacy of her mother, the writer Ann Petry. Best known for her 1946 novel The... More

Grier, William H., and Price M. Cobbs. Black Rage.NY: Basic Books, 1968. First edition (no additional printings stated on copyright page). Octavo; viii, 213pp.; full black cloth, in dust jacket. Light foxing to fore-edge of textblock; some offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps, else about... More

NY: Ace Books, 1967. First edition. Signed, dated, and inscribed by Delany on the title page. Mass-market paperback (6.5 x 4.25 in.), 142pp. A very good (+) copy, with a slight spine twist and a few light creases to the spine and front cover hinge... More

Boston: Beacon Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 257pp, indexed. Green cloth. Top and bottom of textblock lightly foxed. Small split to cloth at bottom rear corner, which nonetheless remains straight and sharp. Light offsetting to front end paper. Unclipped "$10.95" jacket shows moderate rubbing and... More