Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1994). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning African American poet's second collection, one which is enriched by his world travels from Afghanistan to the Pyrenees. Rita Dove called it "the most spectacular book I've read in years" SIGNED on the title page. 75 pp. ISBN: 1-556590652.

Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning African American poet's third collection, inspired by Dante and Venice (Cassell spent 8 years living in Italy). Martin Espada these love poems "resonant, even haunting, born of an acute sensual awareness." SIGNED on the title page. 120 pp. ISBN: 1-556591241.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. SIGNED hardcover first edition - African American poet's first regularly published collection. #129 out of 200 copies numbered and signed by Coleman. 133 pp plus colophon and final photograph of author. ISBN: 0-876854129.

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, (1993). Third collection of poems by this award winning writer (including the 2020 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry and the 2021 Wallace Stevens Award). Cover praise from Sharon Olds, who commented that these poems "show us our underlife, tender and dreadful. And they are vibrant poems, poems in the voice of the living creature, the one who escapedand paused, and turned back, and saw, and cried out. This is one of the most beautiful and necessary voices in American poetry today. 69 pp. ISBN: 0-822954222.

Toronto: TSAR Publications, (2005). First edition - His first collection of poetry - one which "examines image versus reality of tolerance and multiculturalism in Canada from the perspective of a young, gay, black man." 71 pp. ISBN: 1894770226.

Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1994. SIGNED first edition - A classical tragedy, in blank verse, based the story of Oedipus, but set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 1999. Illustrated by Mark Wooley. One of only 4,000 copies in wrappers out of a total edition of 4276. ISBN: 0-934257-744.

New York: Norton, 1999. National Book Award nominee. ISBN: 0-393-32026x.

New York: Norton, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A lyric narrative by this former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, inspired by a footnote to musical history, a recreation of the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist, George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860), the son of a white European woman and a black African prince, who in 1803 traveled from London to Vienna to meet Beethoven. Notes. 225 pp. ISBN: 9780393070088.

New York: Vintage Books, (1993.). First edition - First one-volume selection of work by the nation's first black Poet Laureate, introducing a new poem and essay, and including "The Yellow House on the Corner, Museum", and the Pulizter-Prize winning "Thomas and Beulah." Chronology, index of titles. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-679-750800.

New York: Norton, (1991). Hardcover first edition - The fourth book of poems, her first after winning the Pulitzer Prize. 73 pp. ISBN: 0-393-306968.

New York: Norton, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth book of poems, her first after winning the Pulitzer Prize.

Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of 29 poems by this African American reporter, editor and writer.

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Edited and with a substantial introduction by Eugene B. Redmond. Before his death in 196, at just 33 (shot, in a case of "mistaken identity" by a transit cop in a New York subway station), Dumas had produced numerous poems and short stories, only partially published. His poetry has been called "eloquent, precise and controlled ... a poetry of powerful outrage." This volume includes both works from his earlier books and some never before published poems. Quite scarce now in the hardcover first edition. [26], 155 pp. ISBN: 0-938410-75x.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955. Hardcover - Includes a biographical sketch by Bertha Rodgers. Illustrated with drawings by Erick Berry. xiv, 106 pp.

Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, (2006). SIGNED first edition - African American poet's first collection; the title sequence includes poems which give a glimpse of her family's history - her grandparents during the Depression, her parents in the segregated South. INSCRIBED on the title page "here's to many years of beautiful trips, new friends and great pleasures" and dated in Los Altos in the year of publication. Cover praise from Nikki Giovanni, Lucille Clifton and others. 85 pp. ISBN: 1-59709000X.

New York: Henry Holt, (1995). First edition - The author's fifth collection, a slim book of 21 prose poems, in which he meditates on the dying of his cold and unloving father. 33 pp. ISBN: 0-805036687.

Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991. First edition - Award-winning Black poet's fourth collection. A title in the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. 85 pp. ISBN: 0-887481167.

New York: Morrow / Harper Collins, (2003) dj. First edition - His first collection of poetry and his second book (the first was the acclaimed memoir "Finding Fish." 61 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0549327.

New York: William H. Morrow, (2016). SIGNED - A collection of poems and short prose poems celebrating the ordinary joys of life. SIGNED on the half title page. 143 pp. ISBN: 978-0062562883.

New York: Morrow, 1983. First edition -

Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, (1973, c 1970). The third collection of poetry by this important African American writer - although she comments that "No one was much interested in a Black girl writing what was called 'militant' poetry" all three of her early books sold well - as evidenced by 4 printings of this title within 3 years. The poems in this collection are very personal, with many influenced by the Black Power movement of the 1960s and others written for and about Black women like Gwendolyn Brooks, Nina Simone and Aretha Franklin. 48 pp. ISBN: 0-910296448.

New York: Morrow, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The title of this collection refers to those who have tried to make changes, who have gone against the prevailing winds - from Phillis Wheatley, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King to John Lennon and Robert Kennedy, and also uncelebrated, unknown friends and lovers. ISBN: 0-688-019064.

New York: Morrow, 1983.

New York: Morrow, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition -. ISBN: 0-688-156983.

Ithaca, New York: Firebrand Books, (1998). First edition - Poems and prose poems, monologues and dialogues by this feminist writer - poems that detail the experiences of a black urban woman eking out a living as a waitress, cleaning person, office temp and more - drugs, racism, greed all play a part in these poems. 143 pp. ISBN: 0-932379494.

New York: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd, (1999.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of twenty-two poems which celebrate the different faces of love - "There's something here for every age and every taste, from sweet to sassy to sentimental." SIGNED by the author on the title page and uncommon thus. Illustrated in full color by Melodye Benson Rosales. 89 pp. ISBN: 0-688156673.

Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, (1997.). First edition - The first collection of poetry by this young African American writer from San Francisco. Cover praise from Diane di Prima. 67 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 1-880684225.

New York: Doubleday, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Fourth collection of poetry by this African American writer. contains 46 poems plus brief introductory prose comments. Praise from Kay Boyle, Gwendolyn Brooks and others. 110 pp. ISBN: 0-385-004818.