New York: Henry Holt, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in Homewood; the hero is a small wizened old black man, living in a trailer cluttered with the detritus of his 60 years - but also the possessor of a fine legal mind, one which he uses to help those in Homewood who need his services, but can never afford to pay for them. ISBN: 0-8050-03754.

New York: Henry Holt, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Powerful novel about 'being black and male in the last quarter of the American Century' - based on the 1985 bombing by police of a row house owned by the Afrocentric cult, Move. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1991. 215 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-12664.

New York: Henry Holt, (1989.). First edition - First collection of short stories by this African American writer. 161 pp. plus notes and preceded by 3 pp of description and reviews of Wideman's books.

New York: Vintage Books, (1995.). National Book Award finalist - a meditation on "fathers, color, roots, time and language.' 197 pp. ISBN: 0-679-737510.

New York: Summit Books, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American writer's first novel, the story of a young man's coming of age in the political upheavals on the college campuses of the late 60's and early 70's. Cover praise from Trey Ellis and Ishmael Reed. ISBN: 0-671-726404.

New York: Summit Books, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American writer's first novel, the story of a young man's coming of age in the political upheavals on the college campuses of the late 60's and early 70's. Cover praise from Trey Ellis and Ishmael Reed. ISBN: 0-671-726404.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Considered perhaps the best novel by this African American writer, this is the story of Cato Douglass, a black novelist, who tries to understand why his friend of thirty years, Paul Cummings, a white novelist, has just committed suicide. ISBN: 0-395-318416.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Considered perhaps the best novel by this African American writer, this is the story of Cato Douglass, a black novelist, who tries to understand why his friend of thirty years, Paul Cummings, a white novelist, has just committed suicide. ISBN: 0-395-318416.

New York: Doubleday, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Critically acclaimed novel about a black soldier fighting in Vietnam. When he is seriously wounded, Captain Blackman drifts in and out of a coma, hallucinating about the role of the black soldier past and present - in the American Revolution, the Civil War, on the Frontier.

Mill Valley, CA: Cove International Publishers, (2018). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by this "American physician-writer, bioethicist and filmmaker whose work focuses on promoting resilience for people who are ill, aging, dying, or stressed by environmental and humanitarian violation." The first book in The Chasing Mercury Toxic Trilogy, this is a romantic suspense novel spanning three continents and nearly 40 years. INSCRIBED on the title page. This was written in part to honor the United Nations Minamata Convention on Mercury which went into force as international law in 2017. Praise on the back cover from Angela Y. Davis and others. 312 pp plus epilogue. ISBN: 978-0692059661.

New York: Morrow, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this Californi-born African American poet and writer - the story of a pregnant slave woman who led an uprising. Although this book is fiction, the events and characters in this story are based on historical ones. Alice Walker call this book "a deep rich compelling work." 236 pp. ISBN: 0-688-051138.

New York: Morrow, 1986. Hardcover - First novel by this African American poet and writer - the story of a pregnant slave woman who led an uprising; while fiction, the events and characters in this story are based on historical ones. Alice Walker call this book "a deep rich compelling work.". ISBN: 0-688-051138.

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

New York: Morrow, 1986. dj. Hardcover - First novel by this African American poet and writer - the story of a pregnant slave woman who led an uprising; while fiction, the events and characters in this story are based on historical ones. Alice Walker call this book "a deep rich compelling work."

New York: Morrow, 1986. dj. Hardcover - First novel by this African American poet and writer - the story of a pregnant slave woman who led an uprising; while fiction, the events and characters in this story are based on historical ones. Alice Walker call this book "a deep rich compelling work." 181 pp. ISBN: 0-688-051138.

New York: Morrow, 1986. dj. Hardcover - First novel by this African American poet and writer - the story of a pregnant slave woman who led an uprising; while fiction, the events and characters in this story are based on historical ones. Alice Walker call this book "a deep rich compelling work.". ISBN: 0-688-051138.

New York: Plume, (1985.). Drama set in a run-down recording studio in Chicago in 1927 where legendary blues singer Ma Rainey is due to arrive -111 pp. ISBN: 0-452261139.

New York: St Martin's, 1992. Hardcover first edition - Writings on Malcolm X, and on the significance of his life, by many contributors. Included are Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, John Edgar Wideman, Cornel West and others.

New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning African American writer's powerful first book, the story of a young girl's coming-of-age in Brooklyn during the Vietnam era - a world where sexuality is explored from every angle, where abuse is only whispered about, and where the young men are drafted and return, if they return at all, broken. On the basis of this novel, Woodson was named a regional Granta finalist, and she has gone to receive several other awards, to be nominated for the National Book Award and more. SIGNED on the title page. Although Woodson is best known as an author of books for young adults, this is an adult novel. 113 pp. ISBN: 0-525-937218.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - A classic novel about what it means to be a black American - sometimes brutally funny, other times starkly real - as he "sets forth his encounters with poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots, frustrated rage -and a variety of ways of loving." The third and last novel by this writer, whom Ishmael Reed notably described as "Richard Pryor before there was a Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor on paper." 215 pp. ISBN: 0-374-100365.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. dj. Hardcover - His classic novel, one of the most important African American literary works of the 20th century. Title page in red and black, first edition stated on copyright page, but not a first. Introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. xii, 359 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1983.). Originally written in the 1940's and intended as part of Wright's great autobiography "Black Boy" this portion (which tells of his struggles in Chicago, his early days in the Communist party, and his break from them) was severed from the main autobiography before publication. Portions of this section appeared in periodicals, but this posthumous publication in the first printing of the entire book. Includes an afterword by Michael Fabre. 146 pp plus a 1 pp illustration of a page of the original manuscript. ISBN: 0-06-0909919.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Hardcover - An early printing, possibly a Book of the Month club edition, of this classic novel.

New York: Harper & Row, (1977.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally written in the 1940's and intended as part of Wright's great autobiography "Black Boy" this portion (which tells of his struggles in Chicago, his early days in the Communist party, and his break from them) was severed from the main autobiography before publication. Portions of this section appeared in periodicals, but this posthumous publication in the first printing of the entire book. Includes an afterword by Michael Fabre. 146 pp plus a 1 pp illustration of a page of the original manuscript. ISBN: 0-06-1047687.

New York: Amistad / Harper Collins, (1993). SIGNED first edition - Includes 20 reviews of Wright's novels and other books and 22 critical essays on his works; the reviewers include Joyce Cary, Max Eastman, Clifton Fadiman, Zora Neale Hurston, Sinclair Lewis, Ralph Ellison, Horace A. Porter, Lionel Trilling, David Bradley and others. Essays by Dan McCall, Claudia C. Tate, Robert Stepto, Herbert Leibowitz, Houston A Baker and more. Preface by Gates. SIGNED by K. A. Appiah on the title page. One of the first six volumes of literary criticism launching the Amistad Literary series, which is devoted to literary fiction and criticism by and about African Americans. Chronology, bibliography and index. xvi, 476 pp. ISBN: 1-567430279.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1991). A new look at the work of Richard Wright - and especially 'Native Son' - as literary works and not just social polemics. Works cited, index. xvii, 129 pp. ISBN: 0-877453209.

New York: Warner/ Grand Central. (1988) dj. Hardcover - A portrait of this important African American novelist by a friend and fellow writer, one which discusses his political beliefs, and looks at his major works. The first biography of Wright by one of his contemporaries and the first critical biography by another Black scholar and author. Photographs, bibliographical essay, index. xix, 428 pp. ISBN: 0-446710016.