New York: Viking, 1972. Hardcover octavo in pictorial dust jacket. Olive green cloth with lettering stamped in purple to spine. Green endpapers and topstain. 264pp. Book-length treatise on Peter Brook and his International Centre for Theatre Research.
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.....
New York: New Observations, May 1988. Saddle-stapled quarto (8-1/2 x 11 inches) in photo-illustrated wraps, 23 [5 : ads] pp. Contributions from George Melrod with "Technology as Theme Park: A Nutshell History of the World's Fairs; Laura Zelaznick with "Art in America"; Tom Finkelpearl with "Amusement Resistance"; Richard Eagan with.....
London, England: Secker & Warburg, 1965. First British Edition. Large 8vo, forest green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, 254 pp. Literary, Social and Political Essays.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997. Cover photo by Lance Watson. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 199 pp. Aldon Lynn Nielsen was a student of C.L.R. James's in American universities. This text is recognized as a critical literary criticism as opposed to a theoretical analysis of C.L.R. James's works.
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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.....
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, 2013. Hardcover [octavo] in glossy illustrated boards, no dust jacket, 213 pp.
New York: C.L.R. James Institute / Smyrna Press, 1991. Saddle-stapled octavo in wraps, 48 pp. Five essays issued by the C.L.R. James Institute of New York concerning the writings of C.L.R. James, specifically his letters to Constance Webb, The Struggle for Happiness; Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways; Preface to Criticism; and.....
New York: New York Public Library, 1968. Hardcover octavo in blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, no dust jacket, light blue endpapers, [i-xii] xiii-lxi [lxii] lxiii-lxv [1-410 (1-456)] 411-428. The 1860-61 Leaves of Grass containing his manuscript additions and revisions. Volume 1 of Walt Whitman's Blue Books contained the facsimile.....
New York: Kicks, 1988. Saddle-stapled quarto (8-1/2 x 11 inches) in full color, glossy pictorial wraps, 100 pp. Sixth issue of Kicks from rock 'n' roll champions and founders of Norton Records, Billy Miller and Miriam Linna. Contents include features on Bobby Fuller, Ronnie Dawson, Sonny Burgess, Arch Hall Jr......
London: Allison & Busby, 1984. Jacket design by Mick Keates; Photograph by Snowdon. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 303 pp.
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......
[Georgetown]: National History and Arts Council of Guyana (NHAC), August 1973. Saddle-stapled octavo (5-5/8 x 8-7/8 inches) in lithographic wraps, 115 pp. The literary and arts journal from the official organ of NHAC documenting the lectures given at the inaugural festival of Caribbean artists, writers, painters, sculptors, dancers and dramatists.....
Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, no dust jacket, 224 pp.
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.
Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press, [1982]. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", 182, [6]pp advertisements. Twelfth and final issue of Cooper's journal, a canonical periodical of the 1970s/80s underground literary scene. This issue, guest-edited by Ian Young, is titled "Overlooked & Underrated" and features an impressive cast.....
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1971. First edition. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 92 pp. Literary criticism of 1960s contemporary black poets: Conrad Kent Rivers, Mari Evans, Margaret Danner, Eugene Perkins, Ebon, Norman Jordan, Sonia Sanchez, Etheridge Knight, Carolyn Rodgers, Donald L. Graham, Julia Fields, David Henderson, Nikki Giovanni, Everett Hoagland. Former copy.....
Chicago: Tattered Pages Press, May 1992. Saddle-stapled quarto (8-3/8 x 11 inches) in pictorial wraps, 112 pp. Stories by Henry Kuttner, Clifford Goodrich and Lester Dent. With an index to Hutchinson's Mystery-Story Magazine, interview with Curtis Stryker, Bill Adams, an interview with Sandy Sanders, and an investigation into the Canadian.....
Baltimore, Maryland: Atlantic Center for Research and Education, 1980. Softcover octavo, staple-bound in illustrated white paper wrappers with blue lettering and decoration, 55 pp. Journal of anarchist theory out of Baltimore, MD with contributions of book reviews, essays, poetry and more from David DeLeon, Tuli Kupferberg, Diane Di Prima, John.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Hardcover octavo in printed dust jacket. Blue cloth with yellow lettering to spine. 319pp. Relatively early (1943) printing of literary critici Edmund Wilson's (1895-1972) landmark study of the work of Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Stein, Proust, and Valery, with this copy inscribed to Berton Roueche.....
New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1979. Hardcover octavo (5-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches) red cloth boards with gold spine titles in pictorial dust jacket, 304 pp.
Providence: Cultural Correspondence / Dorrwar Bookstore, Fall 1979. Saddle-stapled quarto (8-1/2 x 10-7/8 inches) in pictorial wraps, 120 pp.
New York: Verso, 2008. Perfect-bound octavo in illustrated wraps. xvii, 298pp.
Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1977. Authorized facsimile copy produced from microfilm-xerography. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 232 pp. Former copy of Roberto Marquez, inscribed to him on first page, with his owner's inscription of 'Robert Marquez 5/77' above George Lamming's 1978 dedication.....
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. First printing. Signature-bound octavo (5-7/8 x 8-1/2 inches) in blue printed wraps, [9], 37, [3] pp. Introduction by Robert A. Wilson.