New York: Ballantine, 1987. First edition - Author's first book, a novel "as hot, as cool, as jazz.". ISBN: 0-345-34833-8.

New York: Ballantine, 1987. First edition - Author's first book, a novel "as hot, as cool, as jazz.". ISBN: 0-345-348338.

New York: Ballantine, 1987. First edition - Author's first book, a novel "as hot, as cool, as jazz.". ISBN: 0-345-34833-8.

New York: Ballantine, 1987. Author's first book, a novel "as hot, as cool, as jazz.". ISBN: 0-345-34833-8.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Cary's second novel, third book, a story about the bonds of friendship of four very different African American women. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-385-481314.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. dj. Hardcover - Novel about the bonds of friendship of four very different African American women. ISBN: 0-385-481314.

New York: Doubleday, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Cary's second novel, third book, a story about the bonds of friendship of four very different African American women. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-385-481314.

New York: Doubleday, (2004). SIGNED first edition - African American author's first novel - third book - a coming-of-age story set in 1970s Brooklyn. One day Angela goes to school and returns home to find her mother gone and her magician father, Teddo, left to raise Angela alone. One reviewer noted that "Chambers paints a vivid image of the political and socio-economic climate of New York in the early 1980s. The most entertaining and heartfelt scenes of this novel come when Angela describes her parents' riveting admiration for Assata Shakur's escape from prison, or her father's sense of pure joy at meeting Muhammad Ali after performing at a PBS telethon to benefit the United Negro College Fund." SIGNED on the title page. 195 pp.

New York: Morrow, (1986.) dj. Hardcover - Author's second novel - the story of the American Creole captured and sold into the harem of the Ottoman Sultan, who became the mother of Sultan Mahmud II - the story of a survivor of slavery. 397 pp. ISBN: 0-688-043348.

New York: Morrow, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second novel - the story of the American Creole captured and sold into the harem of the Ottoman Sultan, who became the mother of Sultan Mahmud II - the story of a survivor of slavery. SIGNED on half title page. ISBN: 0-688-043348.

New York: Crown, 1994. First edition - The story of Harriet Hemings, daughter of Jefferson & Sally Hemings, who is allowed to run away and pass for white.

New York: Amistad / Harper Collins, (2022). First edition - Historical novel based on the life of Hannah Elias, one of the richest Black women in America in the early 1900s - a very private woman until she finds herself involved in an unsolved murder, hounded by the press and ensnared in a scandalous trial. As the New Yorker noted, this "challenges us to confront the ways in which race, class, and gender inform whose lives are deemed worthy of remembering." 400 pp.

New York: Crown, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Harriet Hemings, daughter of Jefferson & Sally Hemings, who is allowed to run away and pass for white. Includes an afterword and an author's note on historical sources. 467 pp. ISBN: 0-517-598612.

New York: Morrow, (1986.) dj. Hardcover - Author's second novel - the story of the American Creole captured and sold into the harem of the Ottoman Sultan, who became the mother of Sultan Mahmud II - the story of a survivor of slavery. 397 pp. ISBN: 0-688-043348.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1905. Hardcover first edition - The last novel to be published during Chesnutt's lifetime ( just 6 years after his first book) was a commercial failure. The story of a successful black man, who returns for a visit to his hometown in North Carolina and remains there hoping to overcome some of the racial inequalities found in the post-Reconstruction South, this book is not only an account of the protagonist's failure to succeed in his dream, it also failed to meet Chesnutt's goal described in the dedication ""to bring the forces of enlightenment to bear upon the vexed problems which harass the South." Second issue binding with the spelling of Chesnutt corrected on the covers. 294 pp.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1968. Trade paperback reprint of a book originally published in 1899, with a new introduction by Earl Schenck Miers.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of the African American novelist and poet's letters which reflect his goals as a writer. Included are letters to George W. Cable, Booker T. Washington, DuBois, Albion Tourgee and others. Extensive annotations, index and introduction. ISBN: 0-691-036683.

New York: Crowell, 1971. The comprehensive history of the 34 African Americans who served in the Congress from 1870-1970 - from Senator Hiram Revels to Shirley Chisholm. Illustrated with photographs. 283 pgs, bibliography, index.

New York: Random House, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this award winning poet and short story writer, set in the 1950s Midwest. A story of a young black woman's attempt to reclaim her dignity, her profession and her son, set against a backdrop of segregation, the flourishing of modern jazz. 322 pp. ISBN: 0-375-506306.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second book by this award winning poet and short story writer, eleven interconnected stories set in the 1950s in a fictional black community north of Kansas City. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-375-506306.

Toronto: Macmillan, (1967) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The third novel by this highly acclaimed Barbadian-Canadian author, set among West Indian immigrants in Toronto. Clarke was the winner (among many other awards) of the 1999 W. O. Mitchell literary prize. Warmly INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- with a better memory of Chicago than Chicago, and with a line more profound then the Blue Ridge Mountain's beautiful line" and dated at Yale in 1968. 250 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's 3rd novel, the story of Regina Burns, who has just emerged from 6 months in a rehabilation program, and is trying to put her life back together. ISBN: 0-345-456088.

New York: Avon, 1998. African American writer's first novel, set in a "sleepy North Michigan community." 244 pp. ISBN: 0-380-79487x.

New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this African American writer to be set in the small town of Idlewild, Michigan - "at once wickedly funny and passionately romantic." 323 pp. ISBN: 0-380-977338.

New York: Ballantine, (2003.). First edition - Author's 3rd novel, the story of Regina Burns, who has just emerged from 6 months in a rehabilation program, and is trying to put her life back together.

New York: Crown, 1994. First edition - In addition to the authors listed above, this includes interviews and excerpts from the works of Davida Adedjouma, Tina McElroy Ansa, Lorene Cary, J. California Cooper, Gloria Wade-Gayles, Marita Golden, June Jordan, Gloria Naylor, Gwendolyn M. Parker, Charlotte Watson Sherman and Barbara Summers. Illustrated with photographs of the authors. 246 pages. ISBN: 0517882612.

New York: Dutton, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised visionary historical novel - of the struggle for freedom, John Brown' s raid, and frontier legend Mary Ellen Pleasant. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 0-525-937048.

New York: Dutton, 1987, dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Jamaican- American writer to be published by a major press - Toni Morrison stated that in this book 'the beauty and authority of her writing is coupled in a rare way with profound insight....it is a deeply attractive work.'. ISBN: 0-525-245081.

New York: Dutton, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised visionary historical novel - of the struggle for freedom, John Brown' s raid, and frontier legend Mary Ellen Pleasant. ISBN: 0-525-937048.