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.....
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
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. 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: New York Review Books, 2018. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Slipcase repaired. Spine of both volumes creased.
875, xx; 881-1668 pp., Two volume trade paper box set. Late in 1967, Uwe Johnson set out to write a book that would take the unusual form of a chapter.....
New York: Amistad, 2003. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
Third printing. Spine and top edge faded.
388 pp. Won 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, International Dublin Literary Award, and National Book Critics Circle Awards. Author's first novel. Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through the surprising twists and.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
211 pp. In Kenan's fictional territory of Tims Creek, North Carolina, an old man rages in his nursing home, a parson beats up an adulterer, a rich man is haunted.....
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, 2019. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
ix, 354 pp. The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. It is.....
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.....
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: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1975. McCannon, Dindga. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, jacket foxed, large tear along bottom edge of rear jacket panel and laminate, jacket price-clipped. Top page ridge foxed.
61 pp. A collection of African proverbs primarily from Ghana, dealing with.....
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."
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, jacket soiled. Sticker ghost on front paste-down endpaper.
ix, 252 pp. Charles Olson is often described as one of the most influential American poets of the last quarter century; some would rather.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2020. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
303 pp. Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and.....