New York: Harper Perennial, 2021. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Signed by author on author bookplate pasted to half-title page. Spine head lightly bumped.
vii, 353 pp. Tabitha Walker is a black woman with a plan to “have it all.” At 33 years old, the checklist for the life.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Top page ridge lightly foxed. Very Good.
200 pp. "The place is Kenya after independence. The chief African characters are a taxi-driver, an occasional politician, and a not highly qualified schoolteacher. These three boon companions, sharing a tremendous zest.....
Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Sixth printing. Ink name on half-title page, light general wear.
207 pp. Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addressed the complex issues of racial and social identity at the turn of the century. Chesnutt's.....
. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1970. Robinson, Charles. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Boards stained, pencil marks on front endpaper and page 13. Very Good.
96 pp. "Here are eleven stories of Africa, centering around the great chief Mawkoom and his grandson Neyroom, that celebrate the strength, wisdom, and.....
London: Secker & Warburg, 1990. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Bookplate signed by author without inscription affixed to half-title page. Pages toned.
180, [1] pp. 8vo. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is also a two-time recipient of the Booker Prize. "Dying of cancer, Elizabeth Curren.....
New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005. Hard Cover.
Jacket clipped. Two inch tape on free endpaper.
xxxiii, 126 pp. "Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and.....
New York: Signet / New American Library, 1966. Mass Market Paperback.
Very light general wear.
130 pp. "When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A......
New York: William Morrow, 2021. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Jacket lightly smudged.
326 pp. Author's first book. Every family has its secrets... It's 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black.....
New York: Ballantine, 2015. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed.
366 pp. "This powerful novel transports readers to the breathtaking world of Out of Africa—1920s Kenya—and reveals the extraordinary adventures of Beryl Markham, a woman before her time. Brought to Kenya from England by pioneering parents.....
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Bottom of pages lightly foxed, jacket and spine stained.
167 pp. In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in.....
New York: Plume, 1982. 13th printing. Trade Paperback.
Thirteenth printing. General wear.
305 pp. A magnificent novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved. Morrison probes deeply and sensitively into the realtionships between blacks and whites, blacks and blacks, and women and men, in this raw, emotionally intense narrative set.....
New York: The Library of America, 2016. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
1049 pp. In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916–2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the “pathology” of race in American life. Against narratives.....
SC: Janet Olson, 2020. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Signed by author with inscription. Crease on spine.
269 pp. "Ida and Engen's 13-year-old friendship is altered when the death of their friend comes between them. Engen, guilt-ridden over Janelle's passing, has become violent. Ida, in her grief, attempts to.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. 1/4 inch tear on front of jacket, toning inside.
271 pp. "Ah, But Your Land is Beautiful is set in the 1950s, the time of the Passive Resistance campaign, the Sophiatown removals, the emergence of the South African.....
New York: Scribner, 2003. Trade Paperback.
Faint sticker remnant.
283 pp. "Cry, the Beloved Country is a beautifully told and profoundly compassionate story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s. The book is written with such.....
New York/London: High Risk Books, 1994. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy.
175 pp. Author's second book. One of New York's most popular performance poets, Sapphire explores the raw edges that constitute urban life. In this collection, her.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed and dated "10/1/99" by author with heart doodle and no inscription. A very nice copy.
xii, 129 pp. Alive with the emotional honesty and intellectual force for which Sapphire has been admired as both a writer and.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy.
Author's first novel. Inspiration for the Academy Award winning film Precious. An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a......
New York: Hastings House, 1961. Baxter, Sylvia. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed.
64 pp. Woodcut illustrations by Sylvia Baxter. "A collection of magical and mysterious adventure tales of children, animals, and monsters that were told orally for children, and passed down from generation to generation."
New York: Hogarth, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
566 pp. Author's first novel. "1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky.....
New York: Random House, 2020. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Cover edges lightly rubbed.
294 pp. Author's first novel. It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant, but she's also a young black woman working in an.....
New York: Hyperion, 1998. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
Of all the events in Oprah Winfrey's life, none has affected her powerfully as playing the part of Sethe, the former slave who must come to terms with a haunting past, in Jonathan Demme's film of Toni.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2014. Hard Cover.
A fine copy in a near fine jacket.
358 pp. "A critically acclaimed debut from an award-winning writer—an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish.....