New York: Spark Pub./Spark Notes, 2003. Hardcover. viii, 213p., introduction, further reading, index, good first edition, first printing stated in pictorial boards. The Library of Great Authors #3. Full-length coverage of "The Bluest Eye" "Sula" "Song of Solomon" & "Beloved" More
Cat.No: 264617
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995. 194p., very good hardcover, fourth printing. More
Cat.No: 264593
Berkeley: Max Scherr, 1969. Newspaper. 32p., folded tabloid underground newspaper, illustrated with b&w photos, local ads, articles, news, columns, very good on newsprint. Cover story and much of the issue devoted to the People's Park protest. More
Cat.No: 264586
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[Cincinnati-?]: [self-published by the author], [194-]. 67p., stiff pebbled card covers, mild corner wear, very good. Inscribed by the author with a date of 8/25/1946. Rather scarce. Self-published poetry collection, apparently by an African American author. Many poems address the war, including celebration of the role of Black soldiers; another..... More
Cat.No: 264567
New York: Vantage, 1981. 32p., slender hardcover in an edgeworn dustjacket. Children's stories by the San Francisco-based African American author. More
Cat.No: 264551
Baton Rouge, LA: House of Songhay, Commission for Positive Education, 1993. 110p. paperback, mild shelfwear. This third edition includes "the U.S. Act Giving Reparations to the Japanese and the Conyers Reparations Study Bill, now in Congress, and a draft reparations bill." More
Cat.No: 264547
San Francisco: Straight Arrow, 1976. Newspaper. Two issues, 96p. & 104p., tabloid underground newspapers on newsprint, worn and toned, small chip out of rear page on both. Two part in-depth report on Patty Hearst, the SLA. Illustrated with photos of Jamie Putnam's Wyeth parody "Tania's World" painting of Patty Hearst..... More
Cat.No: 264491
Los Angeles: Black World Foundation, 1971-1972. Magazine. Four issues including the first 3 published, 5-288 pages and 197-302 pages, 7x10.5 inches, showing some wear with some covers scratched and incomplete inking when printed, last issue listed has a subscription label printed on the rear wrap, otherwise in very good condition..... More
Cat.No: 264490
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. Paperback. xxii, 227p., mass-market paperback, 4.25x7 inches, wraps worn, pages evenly toned else very good first Perennial Library edition. From the library of literary scholar Noriko Mizuta with her ownership signature, under her married name of "N.M. Lippit", on the inside front wrap..... More
Cat.No: 264472
San Francisco: Benro Pub. 1974. Newspaper. [30p] 8.5x11 inches, photos, ads, services, listings, reviews, features, news, very good magazine-format newspaper on newsprint, pastebound wraps. Cover story concerns Drag performer David Hodgson as columnist Rude Ruth. Much Drag news and performing arts reviews. More
Cat.No: 261797
San Francisco: akiPro-ductionZ, 2010. 30p., staplebound chapbook, very good. Collection of poems inspired by the author’s time in the Tenderloin, one of San Francisco’s grittier districts. More
Cat.No: 230585
Oakland: [CORE], 1967. Leaflet, 8.5x11 inches, printed on one side, text with a portrait of Muhammad Ali, very good condition. Also appearing at the rally: Floyd McKissick, Dick Gregory, Ron Karenga, James Farmer, Lerone Bennett, Rap Brown, James Bevel, LeRoi Jones, Dr. Kenneth Clark, John Killens, "California's Black Legislators," and..... More
Cat.No: 227876
[Millbook, NY]: the author, 1968. 32p., 5.5x8.5 inches, one of 200 copies, very good limited edition reissue of 200 copies, booklet in stapled ivory pictorial wraps. A reissue Allen's excellent first book originally published in Germany as "Elfenbeinzähne: Gedichte eines Afroamerikaners" in 1956. More
Cat.No: 222344
Oakland: Koncepts Cultural Gallery, 1987. Pamphlet. 14p.Interviews with Beah Richards, James Newton. Cultural Calendar. More
Cat.No: 216206
DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1987. Hardcover. xviii, 313p., notes, index, tables, illustrations, photos, very good reprint in cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 195538
Berkeley: Ishmael Reed Publishing, 1996. Paperback. 59, [i]p., wraps, signed by Phillips, very good condition. Nice photo of author dressed as a nun. Slogan on rear wrap: Caveat Lector! No sacred cow left untipped. More
Cat.No: 181720
Natick: Pond Street Press, 2004. Hardcover. 96p., 8.25x10.25 inches, illustrated with erotic sepia male nudes in faux-Edwardian settings, African American and Caucasian models, some with full-frontal exposure, very good first edition in original pictorial boards with a soft faux-photo-album cover design. More
Cat.No: 176880
San Francisco: City Lights, 2000. Trade Paperback. 249p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The gay African American author's first book. More
Cat.No: 164463
Oakland: Koncepts Cultural Gallery, 1987. Pamphlet. 8p., 8.5x7 inch staplebound wraps, slight signs of wear. The newsletter offices and plant had just moved into Jack London Square, following a financial crisis that threatened to close it down, and the material to hand in this issue is pretty thin: a couple..... More
Cat.No: 158815
Berkeley: Poltroon Press for Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, 1992. Single broadside 9.5x12.75 inches, heavy blue stock, mermaid design, printed poem, limited to 150 copies. More
Cat.No: 157074
Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1967. Hardcover. xi, 270p., first edition hardbound in fancy cloth boards (brown over orange with gilt decoration) and enclosed in the dust jacket (quite dull, compared to case). Jacket a bit rubbed, and expect a few marginal tics in ink, ergo a very presentable..... More
Cat.No: 154906
Aberdeen, NC: the author, 1982. Pamphlet. [ii], 38p., staples rusted else very good in wraps. African American North Carolina-based poet. More
Cat.No: 143462
London: Verso, 2008. Hardcover. xiv, 290p., very good hardcover, black boards, no dj. More
Cat.No: 137057
Los Angeles: Simmons and Akers, 1956. Sheet_music. 4 panel, 7x10 inch gospel sheet music, fold-creased and worn, ownership name and address in pencil on cover else good condition. More
Cat.No: 134239
San Francisco: Sierra Domino Publications, 1981. [32p] 5.25x8.5 inches, profusely illustrated with explicit b&w photos of Sierra Domino models, very good in stapled yellow pictorial wraps with small label-removal scar on yellow margin of front cover not affecting photo. More
Cat.No: 130690
