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THE PUSHCART PRIZE III: Best of the Small Presses, 1978 - 1979 Edition.
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. Includes 69 selections from 63 presses, short stories, poems and essays by authors including Leslie Marmon Silko, John Gardner, Wesley Brown, Louise Gluck, Adrienne Rich, Seamus Heaney, Walter Abish, Andre Dubus, Robert Hass, Anais Nin, Margaret Atwood, Jane Bowles, James Crumley,Maura Stanton and many others. Includes an interview with Ralph Ellison by Quincy Troupe, Ishmael Reed and Steven Cannon. Notes on contributors. 552 pp. ISBN: 0-916366-030.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj), Rather uncommon in hardcover.
Book ID: 69438More 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: $12.00 -
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: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 16016More details Price: $25.00 -
DAYS OF ANGER, DAYS OF HOPE: A Memoir of the League of American Writers, 1937-1942.
Edition: First printing.
Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Franklin Folsom, executive secretary to the League of American Writers for five of its seven years of often controversial activity, brings to life a time when writers became aware of the threats of fascism, and recalls vigorous efforts of many great U.S. writers to rescue from European concentration camps their anti-Nazi colleagues. Founded during the tense, pre-war period of the 1930s, the League sought to promote intellectual and political freedom worldwide. With photos of League members, bibliography and index. 376 pgs. ISBN: 0-87081-3323.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 19796More details Price: $20.00 -
WRESTLING ANGELS INTO SONG. The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A study of the work of these two great writers, as following in the traditions of Ralph Ellison - that is, in exploring as African Americans the complexies of American identity. Notes, bibliography, index. pp. xii, 275 pp. ISBN: 0-8122-31503.
Condition: SIGNED by the author, Beavers, on the title page andwith a long and warm INSCRIPTION on the half title page, dated in the year of publication. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 31523More details Price: $65.00 -
NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes authors from DuBois and Attaway through Toomer and McKay to Ellison and LeRoi Jones. 210 pages, including bibliography and index.
Condition: Very good+ in a like dustjacket (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 14094More details Price: $35.00 -
THE PUSHCART PRIZE III: Best of the Small Presses, 1978 - 1979 Edition.
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1978.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Henderson. SIGNED by Lynne Sharon Schwartz at her story "Rough Strife." Includes 69 selections from 63 presses, short stories, poems and essays by authors including Leslie Marmon Silko, John Gardner, Wesley Brown, Louise Gluck, Adrienne Rich, Seamus Heaney, Walter Abish, Andre Dubus, Robert Hass, Anais Nin, Margaret Atwood, Jane Bowles, and many others. Includes an interview with Ralph Ellison by Quincy Troupe, Ishmael Reed and Steven Cannon. Notes on contributors. 552 pp. ISBN: 0-916366-030.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj), Rather uncommon in hardcover and especially so signed by one of the contributors.
Book ID: 44180More details Price: $40.00
