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THE HEART OF A WOMAN.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Random House, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth volume in her autobiography. ISBN: 0-394-512731.
Condition: VG/VG- (prev owner's name, light edgewear to dj with tape reinforcements at ends of spine.)
Book ID: 8937More details Price: $20.00 -
THE HEART OF A WOMAN.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Random House, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth volume in her autobiography. ISBN: 0-394-512731.
Condition: Very good+ in a like dustjacket (a nice straight copy, but with an inconspicuous gift inscription, dj is price-clipped, has 1 closed tear on back cover.)
Book ID: 16428More details Price: $30.00 -
SINGIN' AND SWINGIN' AND GETTIN' MERRY LIKE CHRISTMAS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth volume of her autobiography. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-394-405455.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket ( sticker on front pastedown, some bleeding from the cloth spine to the interior of the dj, foxing to the edges of the textblock.)
Book ID: 52501More details Price: $20.00 -
UFAHAMU: Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1973: New Approaches to African Literature.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Los Angeles: African Activist Association, 1973. First edition - Includes articles on Nigerian writers, Arabic short fiction in Algeria, North African novels, Uncle Tomism and more.
Condition: Very good in wrappers.
Book ID: 14200More details Price: $20.00 -
THE HAND I FAN WITH
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, set in fictional Mulberry, Georgia. SIGNED on the title page. 464 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Varnette P. Honeywood. ISBN: 0-385475993.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket .
Book ID: 41360More details Price: $30.00 -
UGLY WAYS.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993. dj. Hardcover - African American novelist's second book - the story of 3 sisters who return to their home in the South upon the death of their mother. ISBN: 0-15-1925534.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 3902More details Price: $12.50 -
BABY OF THE FAMILY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American novelist's first book, a wryly humorous coming-of-age story, set in a small town in her native Georgia, beginning in the 1950s. 265 pp. ISBN: 0-15110431X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 37627More details Price: $45.00 -
THE HAND I FAN WITH
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1996. Her third novel, set in fictional Mulberry, Georgia.
Condition: Just about fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 9365More details Price: $20.00 -
BABY OF THE FAMILY
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American novelist's first book, a wryly humorous coming-of-age story, set in a small town in her native Georgia, beginning in the 1950s. SIGNED on the title page. 265 pp. ISBN: 0-15110431X.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some very light toning to the pages).
Book ID: 58557More details Price: $60.00 -
BABY OF THE FAMILY
Edition: Third printing.
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (1989.) dj. Hardcover - African American novelist's first book, a wryly humorous coming-of-age story, set in a small town in her native Georgia, beginning in the 1950s. 265 pp. ISBN: 0-15110431X.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 40624More details Price: $15.00 -
THE HAND I FAN WITH
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Her third novel, set in fictional Mulberry, Georgia. 464 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Varnette P. Honeywood. ISBN: 0-385475993.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52502More details Price: $17.50 -
THE HAND I FAN WITH
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her third novel, set in fictional Mulberry, Georgia. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-385475993.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 9747More details Price: $35.00 -
UGLY WAYS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1995.). African American novelist's second book - the story of 3 sisters who return to their home in the South upon the death of their mother. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6000776.
Condition: Very good (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 46939More details Price: $8.50 -
BLACK HANDS ON A WHITE FACE, a Timepiece of Experiences in a Black and White America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology of stories, many published originally in "Story Magazine" by such notable writers, black and white, as Faulkner, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Robert Penn Warren. Also includes the first publication of a story by Puerto Rican born writer Edward Rivera.
Condition: F/G (tape repaired tear on front cover, other edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 4938More details Price: $18.00 -
CAVALCADE: NEGRO AMERICAN WRITING FROM 1760 TO THE PRESENT
Edition: First edition. Special hardcover review copy stamped on front pastedown: "Not To Be Sold Before Jan
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes introductions to each section, and brief biographical introductions to the individual author's selections. A wide-ranging anthology, from Phillis Wheatley, William Wells Brown and Sojourner Truth thru Chestnutt, Dunbar, the Harlem Renaissance and including James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Gwendolyn Brooks, Don Lee, and Sonia Sanchez, among many others. Whenever possible, the selections have been printed in their entirety. A massive book, 897 pgs, including an index and bibliography. ISBN: 0-395-04345x.
Condition: Fine in illustrated brown cloth covered boards / no dj as issued. INSCRIBED on the dedication page by Saunders Redding and uncommon thus.
Book ID: 22839More details Price: $100.00 -
BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION 2009.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bantam, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by FOUR authors at their contributions - Jacqueline Woodson, Junot Diaz, Emily Raboteau; and Samuel R. Delany. Also includes stories or excerpts from their novels by Chris Abani, Mat Johnson; Michael Thomas; Walter Dean Myers; Z. Z. Packer; Tiphanie Yanique; Edward P. Jones; Helen Elaine Lee; Edward P. Jones, Christopher Paul Curtis and more. Introductions by the series editor Gerald Early and guest editor E. Lynn Harris. xvii, 316 pp. ISBN: 0-553-385348.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56499More details Price: $65.00 -
BREAKING ICE: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
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 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 Samuel Delany at his contribution. Preface by John Edgar Wideman. Notes on contributors. 690 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0116974.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 58752More details Price: $37.50 -
BREAKING ICE: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction.
Edition: Trade paperback, Book of the Month club edition.
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65767More details Price: $25.00 -
IN SEARCH OF COLOR EVERYWHERE: A Collection of African-American Poetry.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Stewatt, Tabori & Chang, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A lovely book, slightly oversized, illustrated by Terrance Cummings. The poems are arranged thematically, and so in the section on "Freedom" Henry Dumas's "Root Song" is followed by the 19th c poet, Frances E. W. Harper's "The Slave Auction." SIGNED by Al Young at his poem "A Dance for Ma Rainey." Index of title and of authors. 256 pp. ISBN: 1-556703392.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84739More details Price: $50.00 -
MALCOLM X FOR BEGINNERS
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Writers and Readers Publishing, (1992.). First edition - From the preface: "Today when it seems like most of the gains in the area of civil rights are being rolled back one by one, it is more important than ever to rediscover the impact of leaders like Malcolm X on our society. A graphic book written for young adults, illustrated throughout with the author's black and white drawings. ii, 186 pp. ISBN: 0-86316-146-4.
Condition: Very good+ in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 53978More details Price: $13.50 -
GROWING UP BLACK IN RURAL MISSISSIPPI: Memories of a Family, Heritage of a Place.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84751More details Price: $24.50 -
HAMPTON AND ITS STUDENTS.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Putnam, 1874. Hardcover first edition - Written by "two of its teachers." Includes "Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs" arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Illustrated with a four-fold engraved frontispiece, depicting several of the school's buildings as seen from the water, and many other engravings. An interesting account of the school, including a brief history of Virginia and of slavery and its aftermath in that state, and one of the earliest publications of slave music. 255 pp plus index to cabin songs.
Condition: Near fine in original green cloth with gold lettering. (top edge slightly bumped, a bit of wear to head of spine and usual light toning to pages, but a tight, clean and very attractive copy)
Book ID: 88764More details Price: $125.00 -
THE SENATOR AND THE SHARECROPPER: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The New Press, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This sensitive and thoroughly researched study intertwines the life histories of a James Eastland, a rich cotton planter and staunch segregationist Senator and Fannie Lou Hamer, a former sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland home, and became the spirtual leader of the Mississippi civil rights movement. It explores the contradictions found in a county like Sunflower, Mississippi. Illustrated with photographs, notes, index. xvi, 368 pp. ISBN: 1595583327.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45613More details Price: $28.00 -
MAKE BELIEVE. A True Story.
Edition: First American edition.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 43679More details Price: $20.00 -
LOST CHAMPIONS: Four Men, Two Teams, and the Breaking of Pro Football's Color Line.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Bloomsbury, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A year before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball in 1947, four men broke pro football's color line - Kenny Washington and Woody Strode with the Los Angeles Rams and Bill Willis and Marion Motley with the Cleveland Browns. This book traces the history of the color line
from the early 1930s--when NFL owners first instituted a ban on black players to the 1950 NFL Championship Game, which pitted the Rams and Browns against each other. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Photographs, notes, sources, index. 274 pp. ISBN: 978-1620406007.Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 68668More details Price: $35.00 -
BLACK HOLLYWOOD: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments.
Edition: First printing.
Naperville, IL: Ebony Magazine / Sourcebooks, (2022). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Beautiful full color photographs by Augustus. Foreword by Forest Whitaker and afterword by Niecy Nash. List of actors with small photographs. Index. SIGNED on the title page with "love always." Large square format. 227 pp. ISBN: 978-1728258393.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards (a new copy but upper corner bumped).
Book ID: 86516More details Price: $50.00 -
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN NOTEBOOK, VOLUME 1.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Trenton, NJ. Africa World Press, (1992). First edition - An uncommon collection of poetry by this Ghanian writer, who was tragically killed in the terrorist attack on a Nairobi shopping mall. Cover and illustrations by Carles J Juzang. 87 pp. ISBN: 0-86453-3151.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58298More details Price: $40.00 -
BETWEEN YOU AND ME: A Heartfelt Memoir on Learning, Loving and Living.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with photographs. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-385-262027.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (remainder line).
Book ID: 29425More details Price: $12.50 -
TALKING TO MYSELF.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book by this African American actress and singer. ISBN: 0-15-1879907.
Condition: Good+ in a good+ dustjacket (Some bleeding from the cloth on the rear board onto the interior of the dustjacket - except for a slight hint of crinkling this is not visible from the outside, pc.- otherwise, a very tight and clean book that barely appears read.)
Book ID: 15161More details Price: $14.00 -
TALKING TO MYSELF.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book by this African American actress and singer. ISBN: 0-15-1879907.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some fading to the cloth binding, price-clipped.)
Book ID: 40260More details Price: $21.00