Four Black Revolutionary Plays by Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka) - 1969

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1969. Trade Paperback. viii, 89p. first trade paperback printing. About good, some edge wear, old price sticker on front wrap, minor stains on rear wrap.

Bobbs-Merrill, 1969. First edition. Close to fine and bright illustrated stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp text throughout. Plays included are "Experimental Death Unit #1" , "A Black Mass" "Praise Goodness of Life", "Madheart" , "Why-No-JELLO?

Bobbs-Merrill, 1969T. hardcover. Good. 0.5000 8.3000 5.6000.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1969. First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. Stated first printing. Includes ""Experimental Death Unit 1,"" ""A Black Mass,"" ""Great Goodness of Life,"" and ""Madheart."" Playwright Dan Scharffenberger's copy, with his small neat signature on the back of the front cover, A clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1969. First Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. This true first edition was a quality paperback original. Light rubbing to tip of bottom edge of front cover, else a fine copy.

Indianapolis & NY: Bobbs-Merrill, (1969).. First trade paperback printing.. 89 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Collects “Experimental Death Unit #1,” “A Black Mass,” “Great Goodness of Life,” and “Madheart.” SIGNED by Jones as Baraka on the half-title page.

Indianapolis & NY: Bobbs-Merrill, (1969).. First edition.. 89 pp. Previous owner’s inked name and place to half-title page, else near fine in very good good plus, price-clipped dust jacket that is rubbed. Collects “Experimental Death Unit #1,” “A Black Mass,” “Great Goodness of Life,” and “Madheart.” Dated (1/98) and SIGNED by Jones as Baraka.

Indianapolis, Kansas City, & New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc, 1969. First edition, 8vo, pp. [10] 90; pictorial paper wrappers, with extensive annotations by Israel "Izzy" Young, former owner of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, New York, among them such notes as, "The simplicity of a morality play - the angry notion of white on black - better with a white whore and 2 black guys killed by a bunch of white rednecks..." and "I'm glad I do not live in America (U.S.A.) any longer. I'm glad I got out while the going was good..." Very good with light wear to covers and spine.

Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company,, 1969. First edition, first printing, review copy with slip and letter inserted, inscribed on the title page by the author using his changed name, "For Glenn Horowitz all best Amiri Baraka". Octavo. Original cloth, lettered and decorated in brown. With dust jacket. Housed in cloth chemise and slipcase. Some soiling to contents, jacket toned and price-clipped, very good.