Collection: Poetry / Black Arts & Related

Chicago: Free Black Press, 1968. First edition. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps. 28pp. Name and phone number penned on rear cover; light toning and soiling to wraps. Very good. Perkins' second collection of poems, exploring various facets of black identity, with individual poems either dedicated... More

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1973. First edition (stated first printing). 8vo. Saddle-stapled in printed orange wraps. 46pp. Light creasing to upper corners of wraps and some underlying leaves; light dust toning around spine. Very good. Lorde's third book of poems, a National Book Award nominee for... More

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1968. First edition. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in printed wraps. 24pp. Toning to wraps; light creasing to bottom fore-corner; oxidation to staples. About very good. Second book and first collection of poems by the poet and scholar James A. Emanuel (1921–2013). More

Argyle, NY: Spinsters, Ink, 1980. First edition. 8vo. Perfect-bound in yellow printed wraps. 77pp. Yellow highlighting to 23 pages; light bump to bottom fore-corner; small feminist sticker at top fore-corner of front cover. Very good. An important non-fiction prose work by American poet Audre Lorde... More

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. First edition (stated first printing). 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gilt on front board and spine; lacking a jacket as issued (reportedly only the 1973 second printing had a jacket). 215pp., with 12 leaves of b&w plates at center. Signed and... More

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. First edition. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated wraps. 32pp. Wraps mildly rubbed; some light creasing to bottom fore-edge; small circular sticker at base of rear cover. Very good or better; a nice copy. Second collection of verse, following For My People (1942),... More

Chicago: The David Company, 1988. First edition (stated first printing). 8vo. Saddle-stapled in gilt-titled orange wraps. 31pp. About fine. Signed, dated (1989), and briefly inscribed by Brooks to half-title. Four poems, as published by Brooks's own The David Company imprint. More

Chicago: Free Black Press, 1970. First edition (stated first printing). 8vo. Saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. 24pp. Moderate foxing/spotting to front cover and underlying leaf; oxidation to staples; musty. Very good. First of two collections of verse by an author who died, apparently quite young,... More

NY: Kioka Productions, 1972. First edition. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated card wraps. 48pp.; illus. Near fine, with mild corner wear, a touch of soiling to rear cover. Signed and inscribed on title page: "Well, well, well... best left as is 'neough [sic] said.... Love Jacques."... More

Chicago: Adams Press, 1965. First edition. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in glossy illustrated wraps. 24pp. Mild toning along spine, else fine; a nice copy. Cover design by Toussaint Perkins. First book by the Chicago poet and social activist Useni Eugene Perkins (1932-2023), an early member of the... More