New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 50th Anniversary Edition. Trade Paperback.
50th anniversary edition. Light edge wear.
209 pp. Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial.....
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2018. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Minor shelf wear.
531 pp. They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and.....
New York: Bantam, 1998. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. Faint edge wear.
The compelling wisdom and deeply felt perceptions of Maya Angelou have been cherished by millions of readers. Now, in a continuation of her bestseller Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, she shares many of her most.....
New York: Bantam, 1997. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
336 pp. This engaging book chronicles the changes in Maya Angelou's life as she enters the hub of activity that is New York. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, she re-dedicates herself to writing, and finds love.....
Montlake, Seattle: Montlake, 2021. Trade Paperback.
Wrapper lightly worn.
339 pp. Venus McGee, Draya Carter, and Jackie Benson are coworkers with a lot in common. They're smart, independent, driven, and deserving of recognition―certainly more than they've been handed by a demoralizing boss. He's the topic of conversation at their impromptu.....
New York: Dell, 1968. 5th Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
5th printing. Faint toning to edge.
An award-winning play from one of America’s most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Emmett Till.
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.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Walker, A.B. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Multiple chips and tears (some mended with tape) to jacket edges, front jacket flap price clipped. Boards lightly faded, ink stamp on front paste-down endpaper.
246 pp. Drawings by A.B. Walker. Bradford's works of fiction and folklore were.....
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. Johnson, E. Harper. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Third printing. Jacket edges rubbed, half inch tear along top edge of front jacket panel, smaller tear along top edge of rear jacket panel.
128 pp. An Ethiopian boy learns modern ways from an American
.....
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. Faint stain on page ridge.
470 pp. ""Pays an impressive tribute to the new renaissance in African-American literature." --New York Times Book Review "The cultural and literary achievements of black American women are examined and celebrated in some.....
Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
294 pp. On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer’s twin sister, Summer, walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again. The door to the roof is locked.....
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946. Leighton, Clare. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed without inscription by illustrator Clare Leighton on half-title page. Includes original jacket with $3.00 price on flap. Ink name stamp on front endpaper, board edges slightly faded, otherwise book is very well preserved. Jacket.....
New York: Mentor, 1968. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
1st printing. Related article laid in. Toning, faint edge wear.
718 pp. Fiction, poetry, autobiography, and criticism reflecting a potent force in American writing today. Authors include: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, LeRoi Jones, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Arna Bontemps.....
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: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1968. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Third printing. Jacket edges rubbed with chips and tears, jacket price-clipped, jacket soiled. Page ridges lightly foxed.
311 pp. Alex Haley plagiarized parts of this novel when writing Roots, and settled with Courlander and his publisher for $650,000 out of.....
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2021. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a near fine jacket. Minor sticker remains on front jacket panel.
311 pp. On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home from work when she.....
New York: Yearling Newberry, 2002. Trade Paperback.
An exceptional copy.
The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his father—from Christopher Paul Curtis, author of The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963, a Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree.
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in.....
Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2021. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Top edge of jacket lightly bumped.
307 pp. A Black immortal in 1930's Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of.....
New York: Signet, 1965. 4th Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
4th printing. Faint toning, wrappers lightly rubbed.
A play about the black experience in American history.
New York: Vintage Books / Random House, Inc., 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Light creases along spine and on front and back corner.
xv, 537 pp. "What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other.....
New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1968. Mitsuhashi, Yoko. Large Hardcover.
Jacket edges rubbed with some tears, front jacket flap price-clipped. Boards soiled.
Unpaginated. When his pet monkey is frightened away by a dog, a little boy has many misadventures before he finds his pet again.
New York: Bantam, 1974. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback.
Tie-in to the Emmy Award-winning CBS-TV special starring Cicely Tyson. Reprint. Faint toning, lightly rubbed.
A fictional autobiography of a former slave recounts true-to-life historical events.
New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1992. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback.
6th printing. An exceptional copy.
A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint of trade edition ($12.50 jacket price). Jacket toned, related news clippings laid in.
viii, 587 pp. "Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an.....