Charleston, West Virginia: Parchment Gallery Graphics, [1996]. First Edition, First Printing. A print SIGNED by Amiri Baraka, one of 199 numbered and signed copies in an edition that also included 26 hors commerce copies. Parchment Gallery Graphics at the University of Charleston issued this print in connection with..... More
Charleston, West Virginia: Parchment Gallery Graphics, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. A print SIGNED by Amiri Baraka, one of 26 hors commerce copies marked p/p from a total edition 225 copies. Parchment Gallery Graphics at the University of Charleston issued this print in connection with an exhibition of..... More
Chicago: Third World Press, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. A slender collection of poems by Damali (Denise Burnett), mostly on the Black experience, revolution, and feminism. The book was published by the Third World Press of Haki R. Madhubuti (formerly Don L. Lee) and was part of the..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Theodore Draper, the eminent historian of American Communism, turns his gaze here to Black nationalism. He argues that Black nationalism has been around for more than two centuries and was not some new phenomenon when it garnered a...... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Collection of 27 poems by Nebraska-born poet James A. Emanuel (1921-2013). This collection was issued by Dudley Randall's Broadside Press in Detroit; many of the poems deal with the Black experience in America. Scarce in commerce. PHYSICAL DETAILS..... More
New Orleans: New Orleans Writers' Conference and Department of English, Xavier University, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. A collection of short stories, poetry, and drama published by the New Orleans Writers' Conference and the English Department at Xavier University. Many of the contributors are associated with Xavier, a...... More
New York: The City College of the City of New York, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Scarce program for a two-day festival honoring Langston Hughes at City College in New York. The Festival is a long-running event at City College that features academic research, readings, and performances related to the..... More
New York: Rannick Playwrights Company, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Collection of poems by William B. Jackson. Jeremy Randolph's Rannick Playwrights Company, a publisher of dramatic poetry readings, published Jackson's book in 1971. Many of the poems are about Black pride, white oppression, and the scourge of drug addiction... More
Chicago: Third World Press, 1971. Fifth Printing. Collection of more than 50 poems by Norman Jordan (1938-2015) spanning the years 1963 to 1970. Jordan, born in West Virginia, was an important voice in the Black Arts Movement. The poems collected here deal with racial issues, personal relations, alcoholism..... More
![Item #2784 Masses & Mainstream, December 1951 [Volume 4, Number 12]. Lorraine Hansberry, Samuel...](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2784.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1703547663)
New York: Masses & Mainstream, Inc., 1951. First Edition, First Printing. A theatre review by Lorraine Hansberry appears in this issue of Masses & Mainstream, the cultural magazine of the Communist Party USA. Hansberry (1930-1965) wrote an enthusiastic review of William Branch's "A Medal for Willie," which the Committee for..... More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. A slender collection of poems by Lyn [Lyn A. Levy], published by Dudley Randall's Broadside Press in Detroit. The poems deal mostly with the Black experience in America. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8.5 x 5.5 inches; 215 x 138 mm), 32..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First Edition, 2nd Printing. An important reference on African-American literature. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo, 594 pages, in dust jacket (hard cover). CONDITION: Very Good, with small scrapes to both paste downs and the first few pages (not affecting any text) in a Near..... More
Dallas: Matanah, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Collection of poems by the African-American poet Matanah, born Dorothy June Watkins in Chicago. This is her second book, following "Bits and Pieces," published in 1973. Foreword by Delores F. Ridge, who writes: "In Love Bones, Matanah deals with love from..... More
Dallas: Knees Paperback Printing Co., 1976. First Edition, First Printing. A collection of poems and aphorisms by Matanah, a Detroit-born African-American writer. More
![Item #2345 [African-American [Philosophy] Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends Against...](https://lebookiniste.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2345.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1619536826)
Boston: Printed by S.N. Dickinson & Co., 1847. A full-throated cry against slavery. The Quakers, who had long opposed slavery, wonder how a supposedly Christian nation could allow such evil to exist. "From the border slave states to the far south and southwest, the vessels of the slave-trader..... More
Los Angeles: Crescent Publications, n.d. [ca. 1975]. First Edition. A book of poems by Nola Richardson (1936-2019), who emerged from the Watts Writer's Workshop in Los Angeles. This was her second book of poetry; many of her poems deal with the Black experience and men-women relationships. SCARCE in commerce... More
New York: Spelman College and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Fabulous catalogue celebrating the 1996 opening of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta and the 115th anniversary of the college, the first institution of higher learning for Black women. It features works by..... More
