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Garden City: Doubleday / Zenith. 1970. First. First edition. Simultaneous wrappered edition. Owner name else very good in wrappers with a short crease on the rear wrap and a very faint stain on the front wrap. Important poetry anthology featuring a virtual who's-who of modern African-American poets: Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Calvin Hernton, Gayl Jones, LeRoi Jones, Don L. Lee, Julius Lester, Audre Lorde, Clarence Major, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Margaret Walker, and many others... more information

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(Collingwood / Lisle, Ontario: The Author / The Little Hut. 1985). Third printing. Illustrated with photos of sculptures by the author. Red buckrum gilt. A couple slight smudges to the cloth, still easily fine. Bookmark with photo and biographical information about the author laid in. Nicely Inscribed by the author. Poetry by a Canadian African-American. . ... more information

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Detroit: Broadside Press. (1972). First. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Introduction by Imamu Amiri Baraka. Poetry by an young African-American. Very slightly soiled, a fine copy. Although not otherwise indicated, from the library of Gwendolyn Brooks. . ... more information

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New York: City University of New York. 1983. Volume V, No. One. Fine in wrappers. In addition to articles by Brian Gallagher ("The Social Self in African-American Literature"), Angelica Petrides ("Dance Theatre of Harlem") and Howard Johnson ("Racism and Surplus Repression"), this issue includes poetry by Louise Jaffe and Jeptha Evans. . ... more information

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New York: Sun-Ra-Son Prod. Co.. (1999). First. First editions. Wrappers as issued. A touch of edgewear, very near fine. Nicely Inscribed by the author as Tehut-Nine. A collection of poetry by a young African-American man from Brooklyn. . ... more information

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Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press. (2003). First. Uncorrected proof. Ownership signature on front cover, otherwise a fine copy, in wrappers as issued. Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet, selected by Kevin Young. . ... more information

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Oakland: Black Scholar Press. (1996). First. First edition. Fine in wrappers. Poetry by an African-American author. . ... more information

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Middeltown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 1988. First. Uncorrected Proof. Just about fine in wrappers. Poetry by an African-American woman from New Orleans. Scarce in this format. . ... more information

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Atlanta: Conference on Education and Race Relations. (1937). Fourth edition. 24pp. Stapled wrappers. Gift inscription at the top of the front wrap, a "sticker" on the copyright page, a little soiling, very good. Biographical information and examples of poetry from many noted African-American poets. . ... more information

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Washington DC: Nuclassics and Science Publications. (1972). First. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a triangular chip on the front panel. Poetry and one essay by "a sensitive black man who is very much in love with a black woman, Jesurina." Published by an apparently African-American owned publishing company and certainly uncommon. . ... more information

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New York: Columbia University Press. 1976. First. First edition. Generic bookplate with the ownership signature of a noted African-American collector, fine in price-clipped very good or better dustwrapper with a few very short tears, and modest spine fading. Uncommon title by a Nigerian- born author educated at Columbia and Harvard, and teaching at the University of Minnesota. . ... more information

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(Detroit): (Darel Press). (1949). First. Illustrated by Hughie Lee-Smith. Perfectbound wrappers. Fine. Inscribed by the author, with his address, to African-American author James Spady. A scarce, privately printed book of verse. . ... more information

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New York: Frank John. 1976. First. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. Poetry by an African-American Trinidad-born author. Very scarce. . ... more information

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Long Beach CA: Morgan-Randolph and Associates. (1990). First. First edition. Fine in lightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. Volume of poetry by an African-American woman from Southern California, issued by a small press. Very scarce; it received very little distribution. . ... more information

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(Amherst): University of Massachusetts. (1972). First. First edition, simultaneous wrappered issue. Lightly rubbed, very good or better in wrappers. Inscribed by Reed to fellow African-American author James Spady: "For Jim Spady from Ish. Oct. 11, 1976." Author's very scarce first book of poetry. . ... more information

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(Dallas, Texas): (The Author / Neal Printing Co.). (1973). First. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 25, (1)pp. Slight soiling on the front wrap, author's phone number handwritten in, else fine. Self-published collection of poetry by an African-American woman from Chicago, who spent some of her adolescence in Mississippi. Very scarce. . ... more information

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(Oberlin OH): The Author. 1973. First. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Staples a little oxidized else fine. Signed by the author and dated in the year of publication. Poetry by an African-American student from Oberlin. OCLC locates seven copies in libraries. . ... more information

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Port Jefferson Station NY: S.P. Orlando. 1967. First. First edition. Quarto. Canvas backed mimeographed sheets in stiff wrappers. 82pp. A little soiling and wear, a very good or better example of this self-published radical political manifesto by an African-American about race and society, including some corresponding poetry. Exceptionally scarce, presumably this enjoyed little distribution beyond the author's own efforts. . ... more information

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[No place]: (Ted Thomas. 1976). First. First edition. Stapled illustrated blue wrappers (with drawing by Miki Morros). 48pp. Very near fine. Nicely Inscribed by the author. A very scarce volume of poetry, mostly about prostitutes, by an African-American man. Most of the poems are set in Boston. . ... more information

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Boston: The Stratford Company. 1921. First. First edition. Front hinge neatly repaired, a couple of very modest stains on the boards, and some wear to the corners, a near very good copy lacking the rare dustwrapper. Hill was an important African-American educator, teaching first at Tuskegee and later was the head of the Cheney Training School. This is his first book, and only book of poetry. . ... more information

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