The New Orleans Poetry Journal: vol. 3, #3, Sept. 1957
New Orleans: NOPJ, 1957. Magazine. 48p., 6x9 inches, poems, reviews, bios, very good poetry journal in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 302502
New Orleans: NOPJ, 1957. Magazine. 48p., 6x9 inches, poems, reviews, bios, very good poetry journal in stapled wraps. More
Cat.No: 302502
Essex: Motion Publications & University Film Makers Assoc. 1962. Magazine. 44p. includes covers, 7.25x9.5 inches, essays, reviews, film stills, ink mark on cover else very good film magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Reviews and studies of "Lola", "Kiss Me Deadly", "Rocco and His Brothers", Chabrol, Clayton, Visconti and more. One..... More
Cat.No: 299146
San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968. Newspaper. 20p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, news, opinion, articles, photos, events, actions, comix, psychedelia, light wear, foxing and folded else good on newsprint. Cover stories on Omar Shariff as Che, Warhol supports Rockefeller, Mark Lane on the FBI. Also the Mexican Student revolt and..... More
Cat.No: 271092
San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968. Newspaper. 20p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, news, opinion, articles, photos, events, actions, comix, psychedelia, evenly toned, stains and extensive pen notations on front wrap, else good on newsprint. Cover stories on Omar Shariff as Che, Warhol supports Rockefeller, Mark Lane on the FBI. Also..... More
Cat.No: 302642
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. x, 132p., first edition, slightly edgeworn dj. Essays on Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Paule Marshall, David Bradley and other writers by the author of MIDDLE PASSAGE. More
Cat.No: 101320
Berkeley: Black Oak Books, Designed and printed at Okeanos Press, 1991. broadside. Single sheet broadside, 7x12.5 inches, mild crease at upper right corner, signed and dated by Johnson. Excerpt from the book of the same name published by Black Oak books on the occasion of Johnson's reading. More
Cat.No: 299932
Berkeley: Black Oak Books, Designed and printed at Okeanos Press, 1991. broadside. Single sheet broadside, 7x12.5 inches, very good. Excerpt from the book of the same name published by Black Oak books on the occasion of Johnson's reading. More
Cat.No: 152805
New York: Scribner, 1998. Hardcover. 236p., very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Novel of Martin Luther King with real characters (such as Abernathy) and composite characters representing a King associate, a body double, and an intimidating FBI agent; with mystical trappings (one epigraph is from Meister Eckhart)..... More
Cat.No: 64503
New York: Viking Press, 1974. Hardcover. 196p. First edition. Stray ink mark to lower page edges at heel of spine, another to top corner of front free endpaper. Slight wear to dust jacket at folds. The Evanston, Illinois born writer and illustrator's first novel. More
Cat.No: 197614
New York: Atheneum, 1987. Paperback. 196p. wraps, very good condition, inscribed & signed "For Anthony Platt, With thanks & appreciation, Charles Johnson, 9/18/91," first published in 1974. More
Cat.No: 300387
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. Hardcover. 398p., first edition, very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 182154
New York: Atheneum, 1990. Hardcover. 209p., warm personal inscription to a fellow author, signed & dated 9/18/91 by the author, very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and bright, price-clipped dust jacket. National Book Award winner. More
Cat.No: 44058
New York: Grove Press, 1982. Paperback. 176p., warm personal inscription signed by the author to Anthony Platt, very good trade paperback second printing in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 300026
Chicago: F Magazine, 1987. 15p. excerpt from the forthcoming work in the 188p. magazine, that also includes an excerpt from Cyrus Colter's A Chocolate Soldier and an excerpt from Paul Carter Harrison's One Anonymous Morning. More
Cat.No: 103641
New York: Atheneum, 1986. 169p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. The African American novelist's subsequent book," Middle Passage", won the National Book Award. More
Cat.No: 8326
New York: Atheneum, 1986. Hardcover. 169p., signed on the title page by the author, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and price clipped dj. More
Cat.No: 8557
New York: Atheneum, 1986. Hardcover. 169p., signed on the title page by the author, very good first edition in quarter cloth boards and unclipped dj with light sunning to spine not affecting titles. More
Cat.No: 213281
New York: Atheneum, 1986. Hardcover. 169p., signed on the title page by the author, very good first edition in quarter cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 213478
San Diego: Harvest/Hrcourt, 2001. xiii, 110p., uncorrected proof, fine in bright yellow printed wraps. 12 stories based on slavery. More
Cat.No: 111153
New York: Viking Studio, 2000. 288p., profusely illus. with black/white photos, 9x12 inches, first printing, dj. More
Cat.No: 136707
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1947. Hardcover. xiv, 355p., first issue cloth boards. This copy has been extensively underlined and annotated in pencil throughout, has several paperclip dents, an otherwise sound copy that is externally clean. Bookplate to pastewond endpaper. No dj. Race relations division, American Missionary..... More
Cat.No: 55139
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. Hardcover. 176p., warm personal inscription to author & scholar Tony Platt signed by Johnson dated 1991, light offset toning to endpapers else very good first edition, first printing stated in cloth boards and gilt, unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine. More
Cat.No: 300662
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998. Hardcover. xv, 494p., first printing, dj. More
Cat.No: 54230
London: Galitzine, Chant, Russell & Partners Ltd, for Hedges & Butler Ltd, 1965. Hardcover. Unpaginated, a little over twenty pages long counting the numerous sketches, hardbound in textured green boards gilt, plates in sepia and b&w, a nice bright copy, sound, square, clean and unmarked. A very good to fine..... More
Cat.No: 288552
Occidental: Nolo Press, 1980. Paperback. 235p., publisher's ads, cartoon illustrations in the text. First edition trade-size wraps, orange spine title completely faded out; otherwise, faint signs of handling. More
Cat.No: 101218