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NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. SIGNED on the half title page. Bibliography and index. 210 pp
Condition: Good overall in a near fine dustjacket (a tight copy, but highlighting and marginal brackets on several pages)
Book ID: 88757More details Price: $35.00 -
NATIVE SONS, a Critical Study of Twentieth Century Negro American Authors.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes authors from W. E. B. DuBois and William Attaway through Jean Toomer and Claude McKay to Ralph Ellison and LeRoi Jones, as well as Charles Waddell Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Chester Himes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and William Demby. More than just an evaluation of these writers it is a look at some of the factors that shaped their writing - life in the South, migration, existence in the urban ghetto, interracial love, the Negro church, the historical perspective, the new nationalism, the Negro author as expatriate and more. Bibliography and index. 210 pp
Condition: Very good in a near fine dustjacket (prev owner's name, a few scattered marginal notations.)
Book ID: 88756More details Price: $28.50 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
