New York: Holiday House, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A young adult novel by this award winning writer, set in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1930s. .An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 294 pp.

Birmingham, AL: Crane Hill Publishers, 1994. An account of the Birmingham church bombing in which 4 young Black girls were killed, by the niece of - and state's witness against - the bomber, Robert Chambliss. Illustrated with photographs.

New York: Vantage Press, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A drama about a soldier's return to civilian life after serving 4 years in Vietnam, and the obstacles he encounters - poor job opportunities, lack of money and substandard housings. INSCRIBED by the author on the front pastedown and dated in the year of publication. 89 pp. ISBN: 0-533063396.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. SIGNED first edition - The first collection of short stories by this Los Angeles-born author (her fourth book). SIGNED by Coleman on the title page. 242 pp. plus colophon. ISBN: 0-87685-7357.

Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books / Northwest University Press. 1997. The third and most ambitious novel by this highly praised - but not well-known - African American writer. Originally published in 1979, this is the story of the history of one African American family - and of all of them. This novel received the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award and in 1991 he received the first TriQuarterly Award in recognition of his entire body of work. 774 pp. ISBN: 0-8101-50654.

Chicago: Swallow Press, (1970). Black author's first book, winner of the first Iowa School of Letters Award for Short Fiction in 1970. Stories set mostly on Chicago's South Side, depicting ordinary people whose lives are transfigured by some small chance or choice. Preface by Vance Bourjaily, which comments on the fact that Colter did not attend the Iowa School, so it was a surprise when he won the award. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-8040-05559.

Chicago: Swallow Press, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel (third book) by this award-winning African American writer - the story of a "righteous" murderer who is both offered refuge and held captive in the Hippodrome, a ghetto house where a troupe of blacks stage sexual performances for a white audience. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-8040-06253.

Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books / Northwest University Press. 1995. Reprint of this Impressive novel of a minister who goes back in memory to make sense of what happened to two young black boys - one of them his younger self - 30 years ago in a small town in Tennessee. Cover praise from such diverse writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Studs Terkel and Leon Forrest. ISBN: 0-8101-50387.

Chicago: Swallow Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised and prize-winning (but not, unfortunately, well-known) African American author's second book and first novel. ISBN: 0-8040-0563-x.

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988. Impressive novel of a minister who goes back in memory to make sense of what happened to two young black boys - one of them his younger self - 30 years ago in a small town in Tennessee. Cover design by Loretta Li. ISBN: 0-938410-490.

Chicago: Swallow Press, 1972. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised and prize-winning (but not, unfortunately, well-known) African American author's second book and first novel. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For . . . with warmest regards and all best wishes" and dated in the year of publication. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-8040-0563-x.

New York: Norton, (1996.). Originally published in 1960, this is a classic novel of drug addiction and the world of narcotics use in any large city. Cooper was himself a heroin user, and he began this novel while serving a prison term as a form of therapy for himself, in an attempt to understand why he was a drug addict. A title in the Old School Books series edited by Marc Gerald and Samuel Blumenfeld, with a new introduction for this edition. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-393-314634.

New York: St Martin's, (1987.). California playwright's third book, a collection of 5 tales. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-312-022859.

New York: St Martin's, 1986. The second collection of short stories by this highly praised African American playwright and storyteller - Alice Walker said' In its strong folk flavor, Cooper's work reminds us of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Like theirs, her style is deceptively simple and direct.'. ISBN: 0-312-010397.

London: The Women's Press, (1987.). First edition - The second collection of short stories by this highly praised African American playwright and storyteller - Alice Walker said' In its strong folk flavor, Cooper's work reminds us of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Like theirs, her style is deceptively simple and direct.'. ISBN: 0-7043-40399.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. First edition - The 6th book - second novel - by this prize-winning playwright and author - set in a small town on the border between the South and the North, and telling the story of the family of a former slave Josephus, who fathers two children by two women.

New York: Anchor Books, 1996. California playwright's 3rd book, a collection of 5 tales. ISBN: 0-385-467885.

New York: Doubleday, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American playwright's first novel (preceded by three award-winning short story collections), set in the years just before and after the Civil War. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-385-411715.

New York: Doubleday, (2004.). First edition - A sweeping multigenerational novel, starting in 1895 and chronicling the lives of the residents on "Dream Street" and placing their stories within the wider context of America's social and economic history.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collection of stories - dustjacket praise from Alice Walker (who published Cooper's first collection), Ntozake Shange and others.SIGNED on the half title page with the word 'Love.' 273 pp. ISBN: 0-385-467877.

New York: Doubleday, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this award-winning writer. 250 pp. ISBN: 0-385-496801.

New York: Doubleday, (2004.) dj. Hardcover - A sweeping multigenerational novel, starting in 1895 and chronicling the lives of the residents on "Dream Street" and placing their stories within the wider context of America's social and economic history. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-394-496826.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of stories - dustjacket praise from Alice Walker (who published Cooper's first collection), Ntozake Shange and others. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-385-467877.

New York: Doubleday, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American playwright's first novel . ISBN: 0-385-411715.

New York: St Martin's, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - California playwright's third book, a collection of 5 tales. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-312-006845.

New York: Anchor Books, 1998. Author's third novel, historical fiction set in Texas at the end of the Civil War and in Georgia during Reconstruction. ISBN: 0-385-487053.

New York: Doubleday, (2004.) dj. Hardcover - A sweeping multigenerational novel, starting in 1895 and chronicling the lives of the residents on "Dream Street" and placing their stories within the wider context of America's social and economic history. 368 pp. ISBN: 0-394-496826.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in Harlem in the 1920s, during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance. "He captures the fervor of post-World War I black optimism, contrasted by rampant racial bigotry, while chronicling the lives of three sisters: Velma, Barnard graduate and aspiring writer; Miriam, indefatigable activist for back-to-Africa nationalist Marcus Garvey; and Louise, whose fair skin leads her to the Cotton Club and show business." (Publisher's Weekly) Warmly and personally INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated 12 March 89, in the year of publication. 447 pp. ISBN: 0-671658840.

New York: International Publishers, (1969.). SIGNED first edition - An important early anthology, containing poems, most appearing here for the first time, from 76 African American poets. Introduction by Major. SIGNED by Sam Cornish at his poem "To a Single Shadow without Pity." Other contributors include Ed Bullins, Stanley Crouch, Nikki Giovanni, Harry Edwards, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Bob Kaufman, Al Young, Quincy Troupe, Eugene Redmond, LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka], Victor Hernandez Cruz, Charles F. Gordon, Audre Lorde, Larry Neal and many others. Brief biographical listings for each poet. 156 pages.