New York: Harmon Foundation Inc., 1935. Octavo (8 x 5 1/8 inches; 205 x 130 mm), 59, [1] pages in stapled illustrated wrappers.  A scarce, profusely illustrated catalogue for an exhibition of works by three Black artists: the painter Malvin Gray Johnson (who had died recently), and..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 158 mm), black cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket (hard cover).  An analysis of Black writing in America, from about the 1850s..... More

London: Secker & Warburg, 1971. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Top of spine bumped. Dust jacket lightly soiled and sunned. Theodore Draper, the eminent historian of American Communism, turns his gaze here to black nationalism. He argues that black nationalism has been around..... 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

Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988. First Edition. Small Quarto (9 3/8 x 6 1/8 inches; 240 x 157 mm), x, 132 pages, in red cloth, titles to spine, in an unclipped, printed dust jacket (hard cover). INSCRIBED by Charles Johnson on the title page: "For _____..... More

New York: Totem Press / Corinth Books, 1970. Sixth Printing. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author as Amiri Baraka with "LJ" in parenthesis. The African-American poet's first book, originally published in 1961, featuring poems written between 1957 and 1961. Striking cover illustration by Basil King.8vo (8 1/16 x...... 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

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

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

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

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, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 inches; 235 x 155 mm), 215, [1] pages, in quarter cloth and boards, titles to spine, in an illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title..... More