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BORN WITH THE BLUES: Perry Bradford's Own Story. The True Story of the Pioneering Blues Singers and Musicians in the Early Days of Jazz.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good red cloth in a good only dust jacket (some offsetting from the red cloth to the interior of the dj, several chips and other edgewear to the dj) Hard to find in any edition, but scarce in hardcover in a dustjacket.
Book ID: 88879More details Price: $100.00 -
MAD DOG BLACK LADY.
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American poet's first regularly published collection. #129 out of 200 copies numbered and signed by Coleman. 133 pp plus colophon and final photograph of author. ISBN: 0-876854129.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boards with burgundy cloth spine, paper title label on spine, in original acetate wrapper.
Book ID: 88745More details Price: $500.00 -
THE MYSTERY OF THE FOLDING KEY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery connecting World War II with the Civil War: when June and her young brother Chuck are collecting keys to aid in the war effort, they are given many by elderly Miss Abbie, and when the box is accidentally dropped they find a strange folding key - a key which enables them to resolve a mystery with its roots in the Civil War era. Illustrated by Manning de V Lee. One of Seaman's most difficult to find titles, and very scarce in dust jacket. 208 pp.
Condition: Near fine in dark green boards in a good only dust jacket with overall edgewear, some sunning to the spine, the loss of some paper at the ends of the spine, but complete and with price of $2.00 on dj flap)
Book ID: 88715More details Price: $500.00 -
WE WON'T MOVE: Poems and Photographs of the International Hotel Struggle.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Near fine in stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 88646More details Price: $100.00 -
"MOTHER BIRD HATCHING THE ALPHABET" (An Untitled Limited Edition Drawing).
Edition: Limited, signed first edition.
Charleston, WV: Parchment Gallery Graphics, University of Charleston, [1998.]. SIGNED first edition - An ink drawing, measuring 7 by 8 1/2 inches, printed on Arches fine rag, signed and numbered by Atwood. Accompanying this is a separate sheet of paper with the colophon, which states "This is her first individually printed art work and it does not have a title, but clearly it shows an interesting metaphor that connects her to her craft as writer-- mother bird hatching the alphabet." Although best known for her writing, Atwood also illustrated her first book "Double Persephone" and provided the original cover illustrations for several other of her earlier works. One of 99 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 120 copies).
Condition: Fine with colophon sheet in original unused mailing envelope.
Book ID: 88644More details Price: $125.00 -
BLACK BORDERS.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Quite scarce now.
Book ID: 88626More details Price: $750.00 -
GOD'S COUNTRY.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Faber & Faber, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early novel by the author now best known for 'Erasure' (basis for the film "American Fiction") and the first book in the publisher's Callaloo series, dedicated to books by ``writers of African descent.'' This is a "corrosively funny and disquieting picaresque novel which addresses the politics of identity and the racist brutality that marked America's westward expansion after the Civil War. " Hard to find in the first edition, and especially so in this condition. 219 pp. ISBN: 978-057119832-0.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 88508More details Price: $65.00 -
THE CONTINENTAL DOLLAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Century Company, 1923. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An historical novel for young adults by this husband and wife team, a story of adventure in Revolutionary America and based on real events. Illustrated by Emilie Benson Knipe with a frontispiece and three internal plates, as well as illustrated boards. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For our little messenger Bernice" and signed by Emilie Knipe. Date of 1923 on title page, as required for a first edition. 372 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated brick red boards in a very good dust jacket with some minor chipping to the ends of the spine. Very uncommon in the first edition, and especially so signed and in a dustjacket. .
Book ID: 88135More details Price: $200.00