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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: Near fine in a good+ dustjacket (closed tear with associated creasing on front cover of dj, light fading to edges of boards.)
Book ID: 21128More details Price: $18.00 -
ONCE TWO HEROES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81094More details Price: $35.00 -
ONCE TWO HEROES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2003). Hardcover first edition - Young African American author's second novel, set in the aftermath of World War II. Two men, one an African American raised in France who enlists after his parents are killed trying to flee France, and the other a white Southerner from Mississippi, serve together during World War II only to confront the painful post-war realities of American racism. Mather is denied the Medal of Freedom because of his race, and after a futile visit to Washington DC, he is driving back to Los Angeles through Mississippi where a confrontation with a racist winds up with the white man's death, and his brother vowing revenge. 275 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-67003164X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81093More details Price: $21.50 -
NAMING THE NEW WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82850More details Price: $50.00 -
JAZZ CLEOPATRA: Josephine Baker in Her Time.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of the singer and dancer who became renowned in Paris in the 1920's - but who also did undercover work for the French Resistance during World War II, adopted 12 children, spent many years in poverty, and had a gratifying comeback just before her death. Illustrated, notes, bibliography, index. 321 pages. ISBN: 0-385-248911.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22991More details Price: $25.00 -
JAZZ CLEOPATRA: Josephine Baker in Her Time.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of the singer and dancer who became renowned in Paris in the 1920's - but who also did undercover work for the French Resistance during World War II, adopted 12 children, spent many years in poverty, and had a gratifying comeback just before her death. Illustrated, notes, bibliography, index. 321 pages. ISBN: 0-385-248911.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (tight copy, but with a small piece approx 1 inch high missing from the bottom edge of the dj.
Book ID: 23445More details Price: $20.00 -
JAZZ CLEOPATRA: Josephine Baker in Her Time.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of the singer and dancer who became renowned in Paris in the 1920's - but who also did undercover work for the French Resistance during World War II, adopted 12 children, spent many years in poverty, and had a gratifying comeback just before her death. Illustrated, notes, bibliography, index. 321 pages. ISBN: 0-385-248911.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 31233More details Price: $22.00 -
JAZZ CLEOPATRA: Josephine Baker in Her Time.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of the singer and dancer who became renowned in Paris in the 1920's - but who also did undercover work for the French Resistance during World War II, adopted 12 children, spent many years in poverty, and had a gratifying comeback just before her death. Illustrated, notes, bibliography, index. 321 pages. ISBN: 0-385-248911.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, scratch on back cover of dj.)
Book ID: 22913More details Price: $16.00 -
JUST ABOVE MY HEAD
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - A complex novel following the story of three extraordinary individuals (including Sister Julia, a "fire-baptized" child evangelist called to the ministry when she was nine), through three decades, from Harlem to Paris to Birmingham. 597 pp,. ISBN: 0-803794772.
Condition: Very near fine burgundy boards with gold lettering in a like dustjacket (small spot on lower corner of textblock, one corner slighly bumped, small nicks to dj edges, but better condition than this thick book is usually found, original price of 12.95 still present)
Book ID: 84926More details Price: $65.00 -
GIOVANNI'S ROOM.
Edition: First thus- a pocket paperback.
New York: Signet, (1959). Baldwin's third book, second novel. Set in Paris this story of a love triangle is a major novel on the theme of homosexuality. Vintage paperback edition, Signetl S1559, cover price 35c. 144 pp.
Condition: Overall very good condition (usual toning to the pages, some rubbing to the covers.)
Book ID: 88774More details Price: $20.00 -
NOTES OF A NATIVE SON.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Beacon Press, (1963, c 1955.). Baldwin's second book, a collection of essays - his first non-fiction book, originally published in 1955. 175 pp,. ISBN: 0-8070-64319.
Condition: Very good (toning to covers)
Book ID: 88787More details Price: $12.50 -
THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Baldwin uses the Wayne Williams/Atlanta child-murder case as the subject and the springboard for this thoughtful non-fiction work about justice - and the lack of it - for Blacks in America, and about guilt and innocence, fear and anger. 125 pp.. ISBN: 0-03-005529-6.
Condition: Fine in black boards with silver lettering on spine, in a very near fine dust jacket (some toning to the flaps of the dj, original price of 11.95 still present) .
Book ID: 84925More details Price: $85.00 -
TALKING AT THE GATES: A Life of James Baldwin.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: The Viking Press, (1991.). Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 306 pgs.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 39799More details Price: $9.00 -
GORILLA, MY LOVE.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Random House, (1972) dj. A collection of fifteen short stories from New York City to small town North Carolina, stories of young girls growing up black, proud and in love. 177 pp. Uncommon in any original printings. ISBN: 0-394482018.
Condition: Very near fine in brown cloth with copper lettering in a very good dustjacket with some short edge tears, original price of 5.95 on dj flap.
Book ID: 88622More details Price: $24.50 -
DAUGHTER.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2003.). First edition - A moving first novel by this African American poet and mother: Miriam finds her world shattered when her daughter is shot by a white police officer in a case of mistaken identity, a situation that forces her to confront her past, her identity - a novel 'that explores the perils of silence and illuminates the fragile complexity of the mother-daughter bond.'. 264 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrapppers.
Book ID: 76176More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN BANNEKER.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (bookplate on front pastedown, some toning to spine of dj)
Book ID: 87523More details Price: $100.00 -
TALES OF THE OUT & THE GONE. Short Stories.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
New York: Akashic Books, (2007.). SIGNED first edition - A collection of short fiction, from the early 70's to the present, most not previously published: 'the first section of the book, "War Stories," offers six stories enmeshed in the volatile politics of the 1970s and 1980s. The second section, "Tales of the Out & the Gone," reveals Baraka's increasing literary adventurousness, combining an unpredictable language play with a passion for abstraction and psychological exploration.' Among his many honors, Baraka was the controversial "last" Poet Laureate of New Jersey and awarded the James Weldon Johnson medal for outstanding contribution to the arts. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated 2/19/07, in the year of publication. 221 pp plus 2 pp of publisher's advertisements. ISBN: 1-933354127.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 38147More details Price: $45.00 -
THE SIDNEY POET HEROICAL in 29 Scenes.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: I. Reed Books, (1979.). First edition - A rather strange political play by this African-American poet and playwright - Sidney Poet is "a strong black dude" who came from the West Indies to make it as actor. 106 pp. Cover by C, K. Conridge. ISBN: 0-918408-121.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy.)
Book ID: 50696More details Price: $19.50 -
DEATH IS A FORM OF IGNORANCE: Mixed Media.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in stapled, glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 55066More details Price: $48.50 -
CONFIRMATION: Anthology of African American Women.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Very good overall in black illustrated wrappers - usual light toning to the pages, some wear to covers, including a reading crease on front cover, but a tight, straight and clean copy.
Book ID: 88697More details Price: $35.00 -
CAPTAIN CHARLES STUART, Anglo-American Abolitionist
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Hardcover first edition - The first full-length study of this little known and controversial figure - the only man to be employed as an agent of anti-slavery societies on both continents. Includes bibliography, index.
Condition: F/F.
Book ID: 6043More details Price: $30.00 -
THE ROAD TO MAKOKOTA.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: MacAdam / Cage, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this African American writer, set in a war-torn former British colony in West Africa, this is based, in part, on his Peace Corps experience in Sierra Leone. Described as a 'harrowing and compelling' debut. 202 pp. ISBN: 1931561605.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46112More details Price: $20.00 -
FROM A PERSON SITTING IN DARKNESS: New and Selected Poems.
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth book by this highly praised African American poet, one which collects 104 poems, including 18 new poems. A title in the Southern Messenger Poets series. xiii, 101 pp. ISBN: 0-807123137.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68302More details Price: $65.00 -
BLACK TIME: Fiction of Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.
Edition: First printing.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - In addition to giving an historical perspective and discussing themes found in works by Black authors, this focuses on representive novels by seven writers - Chinua Achebe, George Lamming, Jean Toomer, William Attaway, Toni Morrison, Ayi Kweh Armah and Wole Soyinka. Works cited, index. x, 209 pp. ISBN: 0-300025734.
Condition: Fine in a very near fine dustjacket (crinkling to top of spine)
Book ID: 81282More details Price: $30.00 -
QUEEN SUGAR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Pamela Dorman Books / Viking, (2014). First edition - The author's first novel, a story of complicated family relationships. When a young African American California woman unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in southern Louisiana, she sees this as a chance to start over. She moves there with her 11 year old daughter determined to succeed, despite a mountain of debt and no idea what she is really getting into. Book was very loosely adapted as the basis for the highly praised Ava DuVernay produced television series for the Oprah Winfrey Network. 372 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79466More details Price: $21.50 -
WE ARE EACH OTHERS HARVEST: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84183More details Price: $25.00 -
SEEDS BENEATH THE SNOW: Vignettes from the South.
Edition: First thus - book was originally self-published in 1969.
Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Twelve short stories or character sketches describing African-American life in a rural and passing South. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-88258-0469.
Condition: Fair condition only in a very good dust jacket (some crinkling and dampstaining to the lower corner of the textblock, mottling to the bottom edge of the rear board, peeled spot on spine of dj)
Book ID: 82663More details Price: $17.50 -
SEEDS BENEATH THE SNOW: Vignettes from the South.
Edition: First thus - book was originally self-published in 1969.
Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Twelve short stories or character sketches describing African-American life in a rural and passing South. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-88258-0469.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 40266More details Price: $24.50 -
RINGS: On the Life and Family of a Southern Fighter
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Collis Phillips, who became a successful boxer in New Orleans during the height of Jim Crow, and of his family, of the triumphs and the tragedies. Before writing this moving book, Bates spent 10 years with the Phillips family from Collis down thru his great-great grandson, as a friend and biographer. 421 pp plus a section of glossy photographs.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dust jacket (as new except for small soiled spots to outside edge.)
Book ID: 5576More details Price: $25.00