New York: Amistad Press, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - One of the first six volumes which launched the Amistad Literary Series devoted to literary fiction and criticism by and about African Americans. SIGNED by K.A. Appiah on the title page. Includes reviews of Naylor's books by Sherley Anne Williams, Karen Joy Fowler, Bharati Mukherjee and others, essays by Barbara Christian, Celeste Fraser, Peter Erickson and more. Chronology, Bibliography. Index. xii, 322 pp.

New York: Faber & Faber, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Eighty-five columns from Billboard which combine interviews with recording artists and reviews of their records. Ranges across all genres of music, from rock, new wave, punk, blues, jazz, rap, country, reggae, world music, calypso, Latin to classical and more. Pieces on veteran artists like Eric Clapton, George Harrison, David Byrne, Ray Charles, Wyonna Judd, Joni Mitchell and the Eagles, White and on the less known artists like Liz Phair, Joan Osborne, Alanis Morissette, the spiritual dance sonorities of the Haitian group Boukman Eksperyans and many others. Photographs. Index. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-805039759.

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.