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  • CROSSROAD BLUES: A Nick Travers Mystery. by Atkins, Ace
    Atkins, Ace
    CROSSROAD BLUES: A Nick Travers Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book and the first in the series featuring Nick Travers, an ex-New Orleans Saint turned blues historian at Tulane University. A novel which intertwines two mysteries - the murder of celebrated bluesman Robert Greenwod in 1938 and the disappearance of a Tulane professor who is following rumors of unknown Johnson recordings. SIGNED on the title page. 226 pp. ISBN: 0-312-192541.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83238
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  • CONJUGATIONS AND REITERATIONS: Poems. by Murray, Albert.
    Murray, Albert.
    CONJUGATIONS AND REITERATIONS: Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pantheon, (2001). Hardcover first edition - The rather uncommon first book of poetry by this Black author whom The New Yorker described as "possessed of the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, and the gospel singer's depth of feeling." A small slim volume. 73 pp. ISBN: 0-375421416.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 86753
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  • BLUE: A Novel. by Ohio, Denise.
    Ohio, Denise.
    BLUE: A Novel.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Kingston, NY: McPherson and Company, (1993) dj. First edition - The third novel by this filmmaker, musician and writer. "The main character, Rickshaw Jones, is a brash young blues artist definitely on the way up, when suddenly her life is turned upside down by the senseless death of her twin sister, Israellen.. . Their experiences resonate with the blues of Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, Miles Davis and Motown, ringing with anger and sadness and rare triumph. Through these stories of women in underclass America, stretched from the beginning of the civil rights movement well into the 1980s, Blue weaves strands of memory into a tapestry which depicts, finally, the possibility of reconciliation." 234 pp. ISBN: 0-929701305.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy blue wrappers in an illustrated dust wrapper. .

    Book ID: 88249
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