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ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: Post Prison Writings and Speeches.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Random House, 1969. dj. SIGNED hardcover - Edited and with an introduction by Robert Scheer. Includes the Playboy Interview, an open letter to Ronald Reagan, a letter describing Cleaver's first encounter with the Black Panthers and more. Laid in is a newspaper clipping dated 12/7/75 by Kathryn Cleaver on "Why Eldridge Cleaver has come home." SIGNED on the title page by editor Robert Scheer. 211 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (toning to endpaper from clipping, price-clipped dj.)
Book ID: 14429More details Price: $35.00 -
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER: Post Prison Writings and Speeches.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edited and with an introduction by Robert Scheer. Includes the Playboy Interview, an open letter to Ronald Reagan, a letter describing Cleaver's first encounter with the Black Panthers, essays on Stokeley Carmichael, the death of Martin Luther King and more. 211 pp
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 26638More details Price: $15.00 -
WILL YOU DIE WITH ME? My Life and the Black Panther Party.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Atria Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - An inside account of the Black Panther party by one of the organization's central committee members, and a personal account of a young man, angered by the racism he saw everywhere in his native San Diego, who became a revolutionary and an activist. SIGNED on the title page by Elaine Brown, who wrote the foreword. Brown became Chairman of the Black Panthers in 1974. the first woman to hold such a position, and she remains an activist. Photographs. Chronology, index.xi, 302 pp. ISBN: 0-7434-82662.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 48896More details Price: $45.00 -
LOT of 3 pieces related to Cleaver's defense fund: 2 brochures and a business card.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: All items are just about fine, new and unused -
Book ID: 73666More details Price: $35.00 -
THE FLASHLIGHT.
Edition: First thus.
Condition: Very near fine in a blue stapled wrappers with a photograph of Cleaver on the front cover.
Book ID: 75544More details Price: $60.00 -
LOT of 4 pieces related to Cleaver's defense fund: 3 brochures and a business card.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: All items are just about fine, new and unused -
Book ID: 75740More details Price: $45.00 -
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER AT EXILE'S END
Edition: First printing, a slim brochure.
San Francisco: Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund (1976.). First edition - Black and white photograph of Cleaver and Kathleen Cleaver on front cover, other photographs inside covers. First separate printing of this article, published by the Eldridge Cleaver Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco. 8 pp including the covers
Condition: Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 73665More details Price: $25.00 -
LYING DOWN WITH LIONS: A Public Life from the Streets of Oakland to the Halls of Power.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Beacon Press, (2000.). First edition - Autobiography of the African American Congressman - one of the most radical and progressive congressman in the second half of the 20th century - who was first elected in 1971 and served until 1998 - "a book on social change and working as an outsider on the inside." 210 pp. plus photographs.
Condition: Very near fine in printed yellow and black wrappers. An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 34541More details Price: $30.00 -
SOLEDAD BROTHER: The Prison Letters of George Jackson.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1970.) dj. Hardcover first edition - One of the most influential books in the Black Power movement, a book which is a condemnation of both the racism of white America and of the injustices of the prison system. It remains to this day essential reading; the injustices continue. Introduction by Jean Genet, translated by Richard Howard. 320 pp. Photographic endpapers.
Condition: Very good in black cloth with silver lettering in a good dust jacket. Some edgewear to the dj, creasing to the bottom edge and at the top of the dj spine, but overall a clean, tight and sturdy copy, and a book which is becoming difficult to find in the first edition..
Book ID: 81467More details Price: $500.00 -
WAR AT HOME.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring African-American private investigator Smokey Dalton - it's summertime in 1969 when Dalton "heads east to look for a missing college student. Daniel Kirkland never showed up for his spring semester at Yale and seems to have disappeared without a trace. The search for Daniel takes Smokey the nation's wealthiest university to the poorest slums on the outskirts of New Haven. The harder he searches, the more he learns about the dark side of the antiwar movement, in which the idealistic young Daniel may have become involved." SIGNED on the title page. 336 pp. ISBN: 0+312325282.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79299More details Price: $30.00