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A Woman's Life

A Woman's Life

by [BLACK ARTS POETRY] ENGRAM, Eleanor

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First Edition
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1985
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San Jose: Center for Holistic Education, 1985. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound card wrappers, 42pp; illus. Bit of faint soil to covers, else fine. Poems on the theme of Black women's struggle, illustrated from photographs by Faye Boyd-Wright.
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Connection. Journal of the Centre Ave. Poets Theatre. Volume 1, no. 1 [January 1968]

Connection. Journal of the Centre Ave. Poets Theatre. Volume 1, no. 1 [January 1968]

by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] WILSON, August; Nick Flournoy, Curtiss Porter (et al, eds)

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First Edition
Published
1968
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Pittsburgh: Centre Ave. Poets Theatre, 1968. First Edition. Quarto. Tape-backed printed card wrappers; 32pp. Mimeographed. Moderate external soil; internally clean, tight and ummarked; Very Good. Premier issue of this short-lived Black Arts journal (OCLC records are indeterminate, but it appears only two or three issues were published; starting with the Spring 1968 issue the imprint changed to… Read more about this item
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26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man and Other Poems

26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man and Other Poems

by PATTERSON, Raymond R.

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First Edition
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[1969]
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New York: Award Books, [1969]. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original pictorial card wrappers; 185,[7](ads)pp; line drawings throughout by Lawrence F. Sykes. Textblock uniformly toned, else Fine.
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Michael Ray Charles: An American Artist's Work 1989-1997

Michael Ray Charles: An American Artist's Work 1989-1997

by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] CHARLES, Michael Ray; Spike Lee (introduction)

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First Edition
Published
1997
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$375.00

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Houston: Bigsby Design and Blaffer Gallery, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. Folio (66cm); pictorial wrappers; full colour illustrations, folded as issued; 18pp. including covers; light horizontal fold to book and wrapper, A Near Fine copy that includes the illustrated "potato-sack" dust wrapper, also in Near Fine condition but lacking the artist's signature copper penny. From the exhibition held… Read more about this item
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Swallow the Lake

Swallow the Lake

by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [POETRY] MAJOR, Clarence

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First Edition
Published
1970
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Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (20.75cm); gray cloth, with titles stamped in black and blue on spine; dustjacket; 64pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.00), with some light foxing to spine and right edge of front panel. The author's first poetry collection from a mainstream publisher, and third… Read more about this item
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Inside the Devil's Mouth: First Poems

Inside the Devil's Mouth: First Poems

by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] COBB, Pamela (a.k.a. Baraka Sele)

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First Edition
Published
1975
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Detroit: Lotus Press, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light blue sheets, mimeographed in three colors and bound with royal blue tape along spine; 44,[2]pp; illus. A Fine, unread copy. The native Detroit author's first book of poems. Cobb was a member of the Black Christian Nationalist Movement at the Shrine of the Black Madonna, and a former… Read more about this item
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Don't Cry, Scream

Don't Cry, Scream

by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [POETRY] LEE, Don L.

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First Edition
Published
1969
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Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers, stapled; 64pp. Light wear to extremities, a few faint creases to front wrapper, with a faint patch of soil to lower rear wrapper; contents clean; Very Good or better. The Black Arts poet's third book, featuring 25 poems, a preface by the author, and… Read more about this item
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Films and Video for Black Studies

Films and Video for Black Studies

by HODGES, Rebecca A.

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Second Edition
Published
1987
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University Park: Black Studies Program and Audio-Visual Services / Penn State, 1987. Second Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); illustrated wrappers, titled in white; 24pp; +4 blank order forms; rubbing to edges of covers; minor corner bend on lower front cover; former owner's address label at rear; Very Good+ or better. An updated version of the 1973 catalog. "The media included… Read more about this item
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Blood Lines [Signed by author]
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Blood Lines [Signed by author]

by PRICE, Robert E. (pseudo. BASHIRI) and Roderick Vines (illustrator)

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First Edition
Published
1978
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Los Angeles: Poets Pay Rent, Too, 1978. First Edition. First Printing. Signed by author on the title page. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated white wrappers, titled in red on cover and black on the spine; 63pp.; priced $4.50 on rear cover; illustrated; light rubbing wear to extremities; minor foxing to title page and outer textblock; a Near Fine copy.
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A Time of Black Devotion

A Time of Black Devotion

by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [POETRY] KILGORE, James C.

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First Edition
Published
1971
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Ashland, OH: Ashland Poetry Press, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 55pp. Light wear to extremities, else Fine. Louisiana-born poet, whose work primarily addresses racial tensions, beginning with the poem "The White Man Pressed the Locks," in which a white man locks his car doors while driving "down the concrete vein." Also includes poems dedicated to Frantz… Read more about this item
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The Fruit Theory

The Fruit Theory

by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [POETRY] JONES, Jymi

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First Edition
Published
1973
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Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1973. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [vi],86,[4]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.95), with scattered foxing to flap folds and edges. The Philadelphia activist and author's second book of poetry, following his debut volume Guerilla Warfare in Philly. Jones, strongly influenced by the… Read more about this item
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Kaleidoscope: Poems by American Negro Poets

Kaleidoscope: Poems by American Negro Poets

by HAYDEN, Robert, ed

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First Edition
Published
[1967]
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1967]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; xxiv,231pp.; photo-illustrated endpapers. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and spotted, faint surface scratch to rear panel, else Near Very Good and sound. Chronologically organized, from Phillis Wheatley to Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen to Gwendolyn Brooks, Ted Joans to Leroi Jones… Read more about this item
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Conjure [Inscribed & Signed]

Conjure [Inscribed & Signed]

by REED, Ishmael

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First Edition
Published
[1972]
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$150.00

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[Amherst]: University of Massachusetts Press, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 82pp. Light shelf wear to boards and jacket extremities, shallow crease to rear flap, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title: "For Cristoph / 'Open my face' / Ishmael Reed." First full-length poetry collection (following three novels) by… Read more about this item
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Absolutely Nothing To Get Alarmed About

Absolutely Nothing To Get Alarmed About

by WRIGHT, Charles

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First Edition
Published
1973
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. Quarter maroon cloth over yellow textured boards; dustjacket; maroon top-stain, 215pp. Fine condition. African-American author's third book, covering "poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots..." (upper jacket flap).
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The Sidney Poet Heroical In 29 Scenes

The Sidney Poet Heroical In 29 Scenes

by BARAKA, Amiri

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First Edition
Published
1979
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New York: I. Reed Books, 1979. First Edition. First Printing, a trade paperback original. Octavo (19.75cm); illustrated wrappers; 106,[2]pp. A Fine, unread copy. A pristine copy of this collection of brief satirical sketches for the stage.
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River of Bones and Flesh and Blood

River of Bones and Flesh and Blood

by REDMOND, Eugene; Lou Hermann, illus

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First Edition
Published
1971]
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[East St. Louis, IL]: Black River Writers, 1971]. First Edition. First Printing. Slim 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 64pp.; illus. and photographs throughout. Just a hint of toning to extremities, else Near Fine. Poetry collection by a former consultant of Katherine Dunham's at the Performing Arts Training Center in East St. Louis, Illinois.
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Tomorrow, Night Will Come Again: A Novel

Tomorrow, Night Will Come Again: A Novel

by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [LITERATURE] JACKSON, Clyde Owen

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First Edition
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[1977]
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Hicksville, NJ: Exposition Press, [1977]. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 95pp. Very slightly ex-library with deaccession rubberstamp of Emory University to front pastedown, just a hint of shelf wear, else Very Good or better. African-American author's self-published novel, "The story of a lonely spinster who found love, after all..." At the… Read more about this item
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The Example of Shakespeare

The Example of Shakespeare

by CLARK, John Pepper [aka Clark-Bekederemo]

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First Edition
Published
1970
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Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970. First Edition. Small octavo. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 113pp. Fine, unmarked copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper, Near-new. Essays on Shakespeare and the modern African drama by the noted Nigerian poet, playwright, and critic.
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Hill Toward Sunset

Hill Toward Sunset

by JOHN, Hedley

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First Edition
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[1969]
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New York: Carlton Press, [1969]. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 60pp. Jacket extremities a bit foxed, light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Novella about Candy Maxwell, "a dreamy, wistful, unfulfilled woman," by the Mauritian author.
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To Shape His Destiny

To Shape His Destiny

by GLENN, Moses L.

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First Edition
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[1974]
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New York: Vantage Press, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in white and orange pictorial dust jacket; [6],185pp. General dust soil to jacket, else About Fine. Alabama-born African American author's novel set in Fort Jackson, South Carolina, during the Korean War.
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