New York: Akashic Books, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED by Amiri Baraka on the half title: "For / Chris /Amiri Baraka / 2/19/07." A collection of short stories, most of which had never been published. 8vo (8 1/4 inches / 21 cm), 221, [2] pages in wrappers. (There was..... More
New York: Grossman Publishers (Viking Press), 1975. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 inches; 240 x 155 mm), 340 pages, in boards, titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). Advance review copy of David Bradley's highly regarded debut novel..... More
New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. A collection of essays written between 1945 and 1964, focusing on literature and folklore, especially the African-American experience. 8vo, xxiii, 317, [2] pages. Small tear in cloth near bottom of front board where it meets the spine, a bit of rubbing..... More
New York: Atheneum, 1986. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 210 x 130 mm), 169, [3] pages, in black and brown boards, pink top stain, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). INSCRIBED by Charles Johnson on the title..... More
Urbana, Chicago, London: University of Illinois Press, 1973. Second Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 235 x 155 mm), [8], 200 pages, in orange cloth, titles to spine, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket (hard cover). A look at Richard Wright's life and literary career up..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 215 x 140 mm), xv, [3], 151, [1] pages, in black quarter cloth over red boards, titles to spine, in an unclipped, photo-illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). INSCRIBED on a preliminary page..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First Edition, 2nd Printing. An important reference on African-American literature. Octavo, 594 pages. Very Good, with small scrapes to both paste downs and the first few pages (not affecting any text) in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and soiling. More
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1990. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 205 x 135 mm), [12], 384 pages, in orange wrappers printed in black. SIGNED by Terry McMillan on the title page. A scarce uncorrected proof for the U.K. edition of "Disappearing Acts," McMillan's second novel, a...... More
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New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 215 x 145 mm), 272 pages, in half cloth over paper boards, titles to spine, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by Walter Mosley on the title page..... More
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Boston: Printed by S.N. Dickinson & Co., 1847. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 183 x 119 mm), 12 pages, in original printed wrappers. A full-throated cry against slavery. The Quakers, who had long opposed slavery, wonder how a supposedly Christian nation could allow such evil to..... More
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
Richmond, Virginia: Outlook Publishers, Inc., 1957. 12mo (7 x 5 1/4 inches; 179 x 135 mm), 30 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). An offprint from The Presbyterian Outlook decrying racial segregation in the church. The author was a former Army chaplain and faculty member at Union Theological..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. The story of a black preacher in 18th-century Philadelphia who searches for a mysterious African woman. 8vo., 212 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Beautiful copy. More
London: Allison & Busby, Ltd., 1984. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. A collection of stories tracing the fortunes of a black family in Homewood, a black district of Pittsburgh, and the first in Wideman's Homewood trilogy. 8vo., 205 pages. A Fine..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page, a collection of 10 short stories. This is the hard-cover issue; most copies on the market are the paperback issue. In addition, signed copies of any kind are unaccountably scarce in the..... More
Washington, D.C. National Geographic Directions, 2003. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), xxx, 167 pages, black and green boards, in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. A travel memoir by the acclaimed author. Signed..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this award-winning novel about race in America. 8vo., 199 pages. "Philadelphia Fire" won the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and..... More
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. 8vo, 242 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. The "two cities" are Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, the settings for most of Wideman's novels. More
