n.p. Billboard, 1985. Brad-bound quarto (8-3/4 x 11 inches) in blue card wraps. Paneled title pasted on to front board. Unpaginated. Chronological compilation of the top ten singles in the "Rhythm and Blues (Soul)" Billboard charts from 1948-1985.
Berkeley, CA: Yardbird Publishing, 1973. Art Direction by Doyle Foreman. First Edition. Perfect-bound [octavo] in stiff pictorial wraps, xiv, 224 pp. Second reader from Al Young and Ishmael Reed's journal Yardbird, one of the better elevated platforms for (primarily) black thought and writing of the time. This volume includes work.....
Chicago: American Library Association, 1933. Saddle-stapled in typographic wraps. 4-3/4" x 6-3/4". 64 pp. In 1933, Dr. Alain Locke was asked to write this booklet on African-American history and survey of sociology, which was accompanied by a glossary of recommended books to assist in his course by Edwin R. Embree.....
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Detroit: Alvin Aubert, 1975-78, 1982. Perfect-bound octavos (5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches) in illustrated wrappers, 98 pp. (Volume 1, Number 2); 90 pp. (Volume 2, Number 2); 125 pp. (Volume 2, Number 3); 105 pp. (Volume 3, Number 3); 122 pp. (Volume 4, Number 1); 198 pp. (Volume 8, Numbers 2.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1968. Cover illustration and design by Robert Giusti. First edition, first printing. Hardcover, octavo, gray cloth boards, brown spite titles, pictorial dust jacket, [x], 348 pp.
New York: International Publishers, 1977. Drawings and painting by Tyrone Geter; photograph by Yusef Wade. First paperback edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 136 pp. Title page inscription from Antar S.K. Mberi to literary critic and translator Roberto Marquez, 'May you find here reflections of the strength, dignity and courage of.....
Boston: Beacon Press, 1968. Hardcover with black paper and beige cloth boards and black lettering no dust jacket, 8vo, 224 pp. After being out of print since it's original publication in 1936, the 1968 reprint here present with an introduction by the author.
Point Reyes, CA: Eidolon Editions, 1976. First Edition. Perfect-bound in illustrated self-wraps on brown textured cardstock. 6 x 11 inches. 21pp, illustrations. Finely printed poetry chapbook from Audre Lorde on Eidolon Editions, one of the many publishing hats of Lorde's high school classmate, friend, and peer Diane di Prima.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Hardcover, octavo, slate boards with silver lettering in illustrated dust jacket, 235 pp.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1967. Jacket design by Larry Lurin. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, brown end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp. The first and only novel from Pulitzer Prize nominated Boston Globe journalist and social justice activist, Bryant Rollins, published.....
[Normal, Illinois]: Illinois State University, 1977. Cover design by Dick Urban. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 50 pp. Pilot issue of Nummo A Black Theatre Journal featuring Lennox Brown's 'The Twilight Dinner'. Additional contributions from Abena Joan Brown, Paul Carter Harrison, an interview with Edward Burbridge by Carl Morrison.
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. First edition, first printing. Saddle-stapled octavo (5-1/2 x 7-1/8 inches) in black and white pictorial wraps, 40 pp. Illustrated, wordless, portrayal of a young man who pursues a social life but is plagued by drug addiction and criminality---woes overlooked by his family, in whose home he.....
Washington, D.C. The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1925. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (6 x 9 inches) in printed dust jacket. Dark green cloth with titles stamped in gilt to top board and spine. 711pp. Scarce First Edition of this compendium of orations by African-Americans, compiled by historian and author Carter G......
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Signature-bound, quarto, pictorial wraps, [5], 500-817, [13] pp. A special issue dedicated to and including the works of Nathaniel Mackey.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Jacket photograph courtesy of Western Reserve Historical Society and jacket design by Rob Ehle. Hardcover quarto, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 596 pp. Chesnutt speeches and essays from 1881 to 1928 edited by Joseph R. McElrath Jr.; Robert C......
New York: Fly by Night Press with A Gathering of the Tribes, 1997. Octavo in black vellum boards with full color glossy graphics adhered to covers, gilt spine titles, no dust jacket, [1-14] 15-98 [99-104] pp. Collection of poems from Trinidad-born Brooklyn poet and artist, Cheryl Boyce Taylor. Issued in.....
New York: Fiction Collective, 1979. First trade paperback edition. Perfect-bound octavo in pictorial wraps, i-x 1-258 pp. Signed to title page.
Los Angeles: Sun and Moon, 1988. First edition. 8vo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine in an illustrated jacket, 160 pp. One of 26 signed and lettered copies, of which this is letter "k," signed a second time on title page.
New York: Fiction Collective, 1975. Cover design by Adalberto Ortiz. First edition. Perfect-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 145 pp. Inscribed to poet and critic Aldon Nielsen to half-title page: "To Al Best wishes Clarence Major 2 -25 -79"
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. Jacket photographs Leroy McLucas. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, black and gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 415 pp. The autobiographical novel depicting life in Harlem post-World War II and on the brink of the American civil rights movement. Translated internationally since.....
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. Book Club Edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt and black spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 415 pp.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover octavo(5-3/8 x 7-3/4 inches) in patterned beige paper-covered boards backed with black cloth. Decorative endpapers. 340pp. True first printing (stated "First Edition" and with "A-C" to copyright statement, denoting a printing date of January 1928) of one.....
Georgetown, CA: Dragon's Teeth Press, 1970. Drawing by Tamas Konok. Living Playwrights Series. Softcover, octavo, in illustrated wraps, 68 pp. Cornel Lengyel's fifth published work, The Master Plan (1978). Title page inscription to fellow playwright, artistic director and founder of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC, 1967), For Douglas Turner Ward...1978.....
Washington D.C. Nuclassics and Science Publishing Co., 1974. First Edition. Saddle-stapled octavo in pictorial wraps. 40pp. Scarce black poetry collection by two sisters, Corrie and Roberta Haines.
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, gray cloth boards, gilt spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, 95 pp. Front free endpaper inscription to novelist Frank Hercules, Trinidad-born novelist who relocated to Harlem in the 1940s. I've Served My Time in Hell is Dingle's memoir of time.....