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A TASTE OF POWER: A Black Woman's Story
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the woman who took over leadership of the Black Panther Party in 1974 when Huey Newton fled the country. A vivid story of the period, of one woman's struggles to survive and to define herself, and of the conflict between black men and women. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. 452 pp. ISBN: 0-679-419446.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a tiny bit of bleeding at the base of the spine, but overall a tight and attractive copy)
Book ID: 63612More details Price: $125.00 -
MOTOR CITY BLUE.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1980) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Detroit private investigator, Amos Walker. SIGNED on the title page. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-395294479.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65789More details Price: $100.00 -
DANGER ON PEAKS: Poems.
Edition: First thus - the deluxe audio edition.
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful new edition of these very personal poems, issued 10 years after the original publication. SIGNED by Snyder on the title page. Includes two CDs of Snyder reading the poems. Slightly oversized format. List of the audio CD tracks, 119 pp. Dust jacket illustration of Mt St Helens by Tom Killion. ISBN: 978-1619024519.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 66445More details Price: $85.00 -
THE CHILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - The eleventh in the classic series of Lew Archer mysteries, Winner of the British Crime Writers Silver Dagger Award. 279 pp. Dust jacket art by Arthur Hawkins.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some creasing and wear to ends of spine of dj.)
Book ID: 65514More details Price: $200.00 -
BLACK RIOT IN LOS ANGELES: The Story of the Watts Tragedy.
Edition: First edition.
Los Angeles: Trans-Anglo Books, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - An attempt to present a balanced look at the Watts Riot, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, that tell the story far more graphically than words can. Includes an Appendix: The text of the McCone Commission report. Maps, bibliography, index. Large format. 160 pp. Map endpapers.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (tear to side of spine, dj has remnants of a spine label, some short closed tears)
Book ID: 66724More details Price: $150.00 -
ISARA: A Voyage Around "Essay."
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Random House, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second memoir by this Nobel laureate - an affectionate evocation of his father, Essay, who died while Soyinka was in political exile. Isara was the native village of his father and friends. SIGNED on the title page. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-394540778.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66274More details Price: $100.00 -
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THE CHINABERRY TREE.
Edition: 7th printing.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. dj. Hardcover - The third novel by this important Harlem Renaissance writer, originally published in 1931. Introduction by Zona Gale.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket. The orange cloth covers are very bright, with just a little shelfwear on the lower edges. Minor foxing to the margins of a few pages. The scarce dustjacket is price-clipped with light edgewear and some chipping at the folds, but is overall quite attractive. Contemporary reviews of 'Plum Bun' on the back cover - including comments from Countee Cullen and W.E.B. DuBois. All of Fauset's novels are hard to find in any early hardcover edition, and copies in dustjacket are even more elusive.
Book ID: 21941More details Price: $950.00 -
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THE BAD BEGINNING and THE REPTILE ROOM plus 'Magnets for Misfortune.'
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very near fine - a new and unread book, tight binding, no creases, but a little nick at the top of the spine and another at the upper corner (probably done in the publishing process, since these tiny nicks seem to be endemic to most otherwise fine copies).
Book ID: 29668More details Price: $650.00 -
HYBRIDS OF PLANTS AND GHOSTS.
Edition: First printing.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The very scarce hardcover first edition of this poet's first book. Winner of virtually every American prize and honors offered for poetry, including the MacArthur 'genius' award and the Pulitzer prize, Graham is one of the most important poets writing today - her poetry is praised for its crystalline clarity and for its complexity of vision, for its craftsmanship and its lyrical beauty. A title in the Princeton series of Contemporary Poets. 67 pp plus 1 p of notes on the poems. ISBN: 0-691-064210.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket. A lovely copy of an uncommon work.
Book ID: 32832More details Price: $650.00 -
LEGENDS: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Anthology collecting new short fantasy novels by eleven writers, including Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Raymond E. Feist, George R. R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, Ursula Le Guin. Robert Jordan, Terry Pratchett, Terry Goodkind, Tad Williams and Silverberg himself. SIGNED by TWO authors: by Silverberg on the title page and by George R. R. Martin at his novel 'A Song of Ice and Fire.' Introduction by Silverberg. Maps, illustrations, including a full color frontispiece by Michael Whalen and full color endpapers by Darrell Sweet. 715 pp. ISBN: 0-345-456440.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (a bit of wear at bottom of spine of both book and dj.)
Book ID: 64395More details Price: $165.00 -
THE TRUE BELIEVER : Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Edition: Very early printing (in Dec, 1951).
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1951) dj. Hardcover - "Highly provocative, best-selling analysis of the fanatic - the man compelled to join a cause, any cause - and a penetrating study of mass movements from early Christianity to modern nationalism and Communism. " His first book, one which was immediately recognized as a classic, and one which is still interesting and relevant, more than 60 years after its original publication. SIGNED on the half title page, and very uncommon thus. Notes. 176 pp
Condition: Near fine in gray boards in a fair only dust jacket (price-clipped, chip to bottom edge of front cover, other edgewear)
Book ID: 64046More details Price: $250.00 -
ELOISE AT CHRISTMASTIME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1958. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by the illustrator Hillary Knight. The 3rd book featuring Eloise at the Plaza Hotel - it's Christmastime in New York and Eloise is warm & cozy in her apartment at the Plaza Hotel. Lively rhymes and delightful illustrations by Knight. Large format, unpaginated.
Condition: Near fine in glossy red illustrated boards (corner clipped off front endpaper, very minor wear to the ends of the spine and the lower corners, but overall a very clean, tight and attractive copy of this classic book.), in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, loss of approx 1 cm at top of spine of dust jacket, not affecting the text.).
Book ID: 33908More details Price: $525.00 -
CAROLINA CASTLE.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Good overall in orange cloth with black lettering - sunning to the spine, spine slant, and a couple of bleached spots on the front cover. Contents are clean, and binding is sturdy.
Book ID: 64582More details Price: $275.00
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