New York: Penguin, (1990). SIGNED - A significant anthology with contributions from both established and emerging writers, including Tina McElroy Ansa, Octavia Butler, James Alan McPherson, John Mc Cluskey, Ernest Gaines, Rita Dove, Darryl Pinckney, Connie Porter, Barbara Neely, Wesley Brown, Becky Birtha, Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Connie Porter, Gayl Jones, Al Young and many others. SIGNED by Al Young at his contribution. Preface by John Edgar Wideman. Notes on contributors. 690 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0116974.

New York: Penguin, (1990). SIGNED first edition - A significant anthology with contributions from both established and emerging writers, including Tina McElroy Ansa, Octavia Butler, James Alan McPherson, John McCluskey, Ernest Gaines, Rita Dove, Darryl Pinckney, Connie Porter, Barbara Neely, Wesley Brown, Becky Birtha, Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Connie Porter, Gayl Jones, Al Young and many others. SIGNED by Samuel Delany at his contribution. Preface by John Edgar Wideman. Notes on contributors. 690 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0116974.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Pulitzer Prize winning author's first book in 20 years, one in which he examines the rift between black and white Americans and in which he moves toward community and away from alienation. SIGNED by author, and uncommon thus. ISBN: 0-684834650.

Boston: Little Brown, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's second collection of short stories, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. This is becoming increasingly more difficult to find in the first edition in collectible condition. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-316563285.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Pulitzer Prize winning author's first book in 20 years, one in which he examines the rift between black and white Americans and in which he moves toward community and away from alienation. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-684834650.