Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2021. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
258 pp. The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl's fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father. The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadhrami girl in Mombasa.....
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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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: Viking, 2021. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
228 pp. The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman. Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by.....
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.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine stained. Top page ridge lightly foxed.
160 pp. Jingala, an elderly African, tries to dissuade his son from giving up traditional village ways, and becoming a priest.
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: 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......
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: 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.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. General light wear.
141 pp. Richard Wright, (born September 4, 1908, near Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.—died November 28, 1960, Paris, France), novelist and short-story writer who was among the first African American writers to protest white.....
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.....