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IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRAIN: The Pursuit of Voice in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study which traces the impact of African and African American oral storytelling techniques on black fiction, through an analysis of the works of Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines and others. Index. 280 pages. ISBN: 0-252-014596.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (crease to flap of dj)
Book ID: 16016More details Price: $30.00 -
IN THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN GRAIN: The Pursuit of Voice in Twentieth-Century Black Fiction.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study which traces the impact of African and African American oral storytelling techniques on black fiction, through an analysis of the works of Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Gaines and others. Index. 280 pages. ISBN: 0-252-014596.
Condition: Ex-library with only a few markings, overall tight and clean in a fine dj.
Book ID: 18257More details Price: $16.50 -
GIVE BIRTH TO BRIGHTNESS, a Thematic Study in Neo-Black Literature.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American poet and novelist's important first book - a study of Black writers in America, focusing the concept of the hero and the rule breaker using the writings of James Baldwin, LeRoi Jones and Ernest Gaines, among others. Bibliography. 252 pages
Condition: Ex-library with the usual pocket and stamps - however, overall this is a tight clean and apparently unread copy of an extremely hard to find first book, in a very good dustjacket (some tape remnants on the flaps) Issued simultaneously in both hardcover and paperback, it seems that almost all of the hardcover issue went to libraries.
Book ID: 19711More details Price: $75.00