Anthologies
Panama Gold
San Francisco/Cleveland: Zero Publications, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (11 x 8 3/4 inches; 280 x 220 mm), [45] yellow and white mimeographed leaves, printed rectos only, in illustrated black and gold stapled wrappers, ragged edged along fore and bottom edges of the upper wrapper. An anthology of..... More
New Directions 23
New York: New Directions, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 141 mm, 216 pages, in brown cloth, titles to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket. SIGNED by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gary Snyder on the front end paper. Ferlinghetti has contributed..... More
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction
New York: Viking / Penguin Group, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 inches; 241 x 158 mm), xxiv, 690, [4] pages, hard cover, titles to spine. SIGNED on the title page by Terry McMillan, Amiri Baraka, Samuel R. Delany, John Wideman, and..... More
New Campus Writing, 1966
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. First Edition. Stories and poems by 29 university students, including some who went on to distinguished writing careers. Contributors include Joy Williams (State University of Iowa) with her story "In Search of Boston." And Joseph Bruchac (Cornell) contributes two poems, "First Deer," and "The..... More
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers 1967 to the Present
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 155 mm), xx, 569, [3] pages, in black and gray boards, titles to spine, in a printed, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED on the title page by seven of..... More
New Masses: An Anthology of the Rebel Thirties
New York: International Publishers, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 218 x 140 mm), 318 pages, in red boards, gilt titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Joseph North, the editor, on the front end paper to artist Raphael Soyer..... More
The Reed Reader
New York: Basic Books, [2000]. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 240 x 165 mm), xxx, 486, [4] pages. INSCRIBED by Ishmael Reed on the title page: "For / Brian, / good / wishes. / Ishmael Reed / May 3 2000." Excerpts..... More
Best of San Francisco's Beat Poetry & Arts
[San Francisco]: Beat Poetry and Arts/BEST of San Francisco, 1994. Small Quarto (9 x 7 1/4 inches; 228 x 184 mm), 121, [1] pages, in photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover). SIGNED by Jack Hirschman (page 15) and Lawrence Ferlinghetti (page 119). An anthology featuring numerous San Francisco poets. Besides..... More