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  • BLACK BORDERS. by Barboza, Anthony, with poetry by Ntozake Shange and Steven Barboza
    Barboza, Anthony, with poetry by Ntozake Shange and Steven Barboza
    BLACK BORDERS.

    Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.

    New York: By the author, (1980). SIGNED first edition - A book which was the culmination of a series of photographs Barboza created between 1975-1980, with the publication of this funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The title refers both the black border around each photograph, which gives a unity to the book, and to the fact that most, although not all, portraits are of African Americans, of writers, artists and musicians working on the edge (or on the border) "What sets these photographs apart, and gives them their durable vitality, is their innovative use of lighting and backgrounds. . Barboza turns the dark distorted forms into expressive echoes of the sitters. Underneath setups…

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    New York: By the author, (1980). SIGNED first edition - A book which was the culmination of a series of photographs Barboza created between 1975-1980, with the publication of this funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The title refers both the black border around each photograph, which gives a unity to the book, and to the fact that most, although not all, portraits are of African Americans, of writers, artists and musicians working on the edge (or on the border) "What sets these photographs apart, and gives them their durable vitality, is their innovative use of lighting and backgrounds. . Barboza turns the dark distorted forms into expressive echoes of the sitters. Underneath setups create shadows that loom above and behind Normal Lewis and the World Saxophone Quartet, while side arrangements turn the shadows into repetitions and echoes, doubling Amiri Baraka, and James Baldwin. Barboza then went on to add a bit of blur to some of the portraits, creating the appearance of back and forth motion or elusive ghosting to Ntozake Shange and Pharoah Sanders. The backdrops that he created and employed were equally unorthodox. Rolls of hanging paper were cut, slashed, and sliced, creating abstract patters of squiggles, lines, and openings, and then overpainted with expressive dashes and arcs of silvery spray paint. . So James Van Der Zee is surrounded by a whorling swirl of shining light, Toukie Smith shares the stage with snake-like back-and-forth forms." (Loring Knoblauch, Collectordaily) . Includes poetry by Ntozake Shange and Steven Barboza and brief handwritten captions under each portrait. SIGNED on the title page by Barboza and numbered AB/72, dated 1981. Square format, unpaginated (32 pp)

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    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Quite scarce now.

    Book ID: 88626
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  • FRIENDS & FIDDLERS. by Bowen, Catherine Drinker (1897-1973)
    Bowen, Catherine Drinker (1897-1973)
    FRIENDS & FIDDLERS.

    Edition: First edition.

    Boston: Little Brown, 1935. Hardcover first edition - An account by this National Book Award-winning biographer of growing up in a family of amateur musicians. She herself was an active amateur chamber music player throughout her life and this book captures the joys and comedy of making music for the fun of it. Small format. 261 pp.

    Condition: Very good in blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine and a small violin on the front cover (edgewear, corners very slightly bumped), no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87039
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  • HE DREAMS WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE HIS HEAD: Ten Years of Writing. by Cott, Jonathan.
    Cott, Jonathan.
    HE DREAMS WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE HIS HEAD: Ten Years of Writing.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973). First edition - Includes interviews with John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jean-Luc Bertrande and others, essays on Bob Dylan, Leonard Crow Dog, The Last Poets, Randy Newman, the Fillmore, Yoko Ono, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Genet, Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Frank O'Hara, film reviews, and a selection of Cott's poetry and more - a great picture of the late 1960s, early 1970s! Illustrated with black and white photographs. 349 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-87932-0656.

    Condition: Near fine in stiff gold wrappers.

    Book ID: 62460
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  • HE DREAMS WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE HIS HEAD: Ten Years of Writing. by Cott, Jonathan.
    Cott, Jonathan.
    HE DREAMS WHAT IS GOING ON INSIDE HIS HEAD: Ten Years of Writing.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973). First edition - Includes interviews with John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jean-Luc Bertrande and others, essays on Bob Dylan, Leonard Crow Dog, The Last Poets, Randy Newman, the Fillmore, Yoko Ono, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Genet, Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Frank O'Hara, film reviews, and a selection of Cott's poetry and more - a great picture of the late 1960s, early 1970s! Illustrated with black and white photographs. 349 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-87932-0656.

    Condition: Very good in stiff gold wrappers (some sunning to the spine).

    Book ID: 74287
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  • Rollins, Charlemae.
    FAMOUS NEGRO ENTERTAINERS OF STAGE, SCREEN, AND TV.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dodd, Mead, (1957.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Famous Biographies For Young People series. Includes brief but pointed and informative biographies on Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, Paul Robeson, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Harry Belafronte, Sidney Poitier, Paul Robeson, Bill Bojangles Robinson, Eartha Kitt, Fats Waller and more. Illustrated. Index. 122 pp. Uncommon in the first edition.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but contents are tight and clean in a very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 41850
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  • SPACE BETWEEN THE STARS: My Journey to an Open Heart. by Santana, Deborah.
    Santana, Deborah.
    SPACE BETWEEN THE STARS: My Journey to an Open Heart.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ballantine, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Memoir by this woman best known for her thirty year marriage to musician Carlos Santana, but it is an account of a biracial girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father, the blues guitarist Saunders King, and of her freewheeling adventures during the late 1960s, her involvement with Sly Stone, and her spiritual reawakening. "The civil rights movement was the foundation of her growth, the Woodstock era the backdrop of her love with Carlos." SIGNED on the half title page. Glossary of Spanish terms. xiv, 331 pp. ISBN: 978-0345471253.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 78431
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  • NIGHT TIME LOSING TIME. by Ventura, Michael ,
    Ventura, Michael ,
    NIGHT TIME LOSING TIME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, second book, the story of a rock band on the road in honky-tonks and cheap motels from Louisiana to Texas to Arizona to Mexico - nothing too crazy until Nadine "gets Jesus" in a vision from the Cajun swamps and they meet Elaine and her home-brewed voodoo. Dust jacket praise from Hubert Selby, Steve Erickson and Norman Mailer (who calls it "the best novel about American musicians I have read.") 423 pp. ISBN: 0-671-623737.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 60798
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  • NIGHT TIME LOSING TIME. by Ventura, Michael ,
    Ventura, Michael ,
    NIGHT TIME LOSING TIME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, second book, the story of a rock band on the road in honky-tonks and cheap motels from Louisiana to Texas to Arizona to Mexico - nothing too crazy until Nadine "gets Jesus" in a vision from the Cajun swamps and they meet Elaine and her home-brewed voodoo. Dust jacket praise from Hubert Selby, Steve Erickson and Norman Mailer (who calls it "the best novel about American musicians I have read.") 423 pp. ISBN: 0-671-623737.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark bottom edge)

    Book ID: 62513
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