- Keyword = African American Literature, African American History and Nonfiction, African Literature, Slavery Abolition Reconstruction, Civil Rights / Black Power Movements
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SEDUCTION BY LIGHT
Edition: 2nd printing (trade paperback original, never issued in hardcover.)
New York: Bantam (Delta), 1988. SIGNED - The story of Mamie Franklin, hailed in the 50's for her roles as a black domestic in the movies, and now housekeeper for an eccentric white couple in Beverly Hills. INSCRIBED by Young on the title page with the words 'from Mamie's secretary' and dated in 1989. ISBN: 0-385-299435.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some light wear to the covers, edges of pages beginning to tone.)
Book ID: 20214More details Price: $18.00 -
WHO IS ANGELINA?
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1975.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel by this important African American writer and poet - not just for his own works, but also as an editor, as one of the founders of the literary magazine "Yardbird" and as a teacher. Poet laureate of California. SIGNED on the title page. 280 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0122716.
Condition: Good in a near fine dust jacket. (a tight straight copy, but with staining to outside of textblock - a mishap with coffee?.)
Book ID: 37624More details Price: $40.00 -
ASK ME NOW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: McGraw Hill, (1980) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The fourth novel by this African American writer and poet. SIGNED on title page. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-07-0723605.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (light toning to the edges of the textblock, spine of dj slightly sunned)
Book ID: 63635More details Price: $35.00 -
WHO IS ANGELINA?
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1993.). SIGNED - Second novel by this important African American writer and poet, originally published in 1995. SIGNED on the title page. A New York Time Notable book. A title in the California Fiction series. 280 pp. Cover painting by Steven Henriques. ISBN: 0-520-207122.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 49907More details Price: $20.00 -
SITTING PRETTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1976.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in San Francisco, the story of Sidney Prettyman aka Sitting Pretty or just plain Sit, ladies' man, ne'er do well, ex-husband, father. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-03-0152666.
Condition: Very near fine in very good+ dust jacket (price-clipped,some soiling to dj, and slight sunning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 59006More details Price: $50.00 -
SITTING PRETTY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1976.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, set in San Francisco, the story of Sidney Prettyman aka Sitting Pretty or just plain Sit, ladies' man, ne'er do well, ex-husband, father. SIGNED on the title page. 254 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-03-0152666.
Condition: Ex-library with some markings and discoloration from glue, spine slant, in a very good unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 49908More details Price: $18.50 -
SOUL KISS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel (preceded by plays and short stories), a coming of age story set in a small town in 1970s Georgia and in Los Angeles. Dust jacket praise from Tina McElroy Ansa who called it "funny, unsettling, enthralling." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 1998. 210 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0639.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82355More details Price: $28.50 -
SOUL KISS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel (preceded by plays and short stories), a coming of age story set in a small town in 1970s Georgia and in Los Angeles. Dust jacket praise from Tina McElroy Ansa who called it "funny, unsettling, enthralling." 210 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0639.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 35781More details Price: $18.50 -
SOUL KISS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel (preceded by plays and short stories), a coming of age story set in a small town in 1970s Georgia and in Los Angeles. Dust jacket praise from Tina McElroy Ansa who called it "funny, unsettling, enthralling." 210 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0639.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 27445More details Price: $18.50 -
SOUL KISS.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. Author's first novel, dj comment from Tina McElroy Ansa who called it "funny, unsettling, enthralling.". ISBN: 1-57322-6580.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 19084More details Price: $11.00 -
SNFC: The New Abolitionists
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Beacon, 1964. Hardcover first edition - An early book on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Community by the historian who acted as an advisor to the group.
Condition: NF/VG+.
Book ID: 9770More details Price: $40.00
