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$22.50Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1974. First edition. 337 pp. Near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear.$15.00NY: Ballantine (2001). Advance reading copy. 308 pp. Fine in glossy printed wrappers. Promotional flyer laid in.$25.00East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996. First edition. 62 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Winner of the 1996 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award (for a first book poems by an African-American). Laid in is a TLS from Jacobs presenting this book for review.$15.00NY: Villard, 1992. First edition. 226 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light wear to bottom edge of front panel. Trinidadian James' first collection of stories.$25.00Berkeley: Black Oak Books, 1991. First edition. 12 1/2 x 7 inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Excerpt from Johnson's novel MIDDLE PASSAGE, issued by Black Oak on the occasion of his reading at the shop. Designed and printed by the Okeanos Press.$15.00NY: Scribner (1998). First edition. 236 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.$10.00NY: Grove Press (1984). First trade paperback printing. 176 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Review slip laid in.$25.00NY: Telephone (1977). First edition. [36 pp]. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. One of 750 copies.$75.00NY: Telephone (1977). First edition, lettered & signed issue. [36 pp]. Two light spots to last leaf and verso of rear cover, else very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Chip Elwell. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Johnson and Elwell.$20.00South San Francisco: Manroot (nd). First edition. [34 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers with a touch of rust to staples. Young 2038.$50.00Cambridge: Restau Press, 1969. First edition. 15 x 11 1/2 inch broadside, printed in black on stiff laid white paper. Fine.
$200.00NY: Random House (1977). Uncorrected proof. 176 pp. Spine lightly sunned, else very near fine in printed wrappers with publication information taped to the front cover. Her first collection of stories, following two novels. Promotional flyer laid in.$75.00NY: Random House (1977). First edition. 178 pp. Inked ownership name on the first leaf, slight lean to spine, some soiling to top edge. In all, very good plus in near fine dust jacket. Jones’ third book in as many years, following two novels.$45.00Indianapolis & NY: Bobbs-Merrill (1969). First trade paperback printing. 89 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Collects “Experimental Death Unit #1,” “A Black Mass,” “Great Goodness of Life,” and “Madheart.” SIGNED by Jones as Baraka on the half-title page.$75.00Indianapolis & NY: Bobbs-Merrill (1969). First edition. 89 pp. Previous owner’s inked name and place to half-title page, else near fine in very good good plus, price-clipped dust jacket that is rubbed. Collects “Experimental Death Unit #1,” “A Black Mass,” “Great Goodness of Life,” and “Madheart.” Dated (1/98) and SIGNED by Jones as Baraka.$200.00NY: Totem/Corinth (1961). First edition. 47 pp. Tanning and light wear along spine and top edge, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Basil King. Ownership signature of poet Bill Berkson on the title page. Dated (92) and SIGNED by Jones as Baraka.$75.00NY: Grove Press (1967). First edition. 132 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of sixteen short stories. Young 2042*.$25.00NY: Grove Press (1967). First edition. 62 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Everygreen Playscript No. 10. Young 2041*.$22.50NY: Signet/New American Library (1970). First edition. xxiii + 158 pp. Two reading creases along spine, else very good plus in illustrated wrappers. Work by Ben Caldwell, Ronald Milner, Ed Bullins, and Jones (Great Goodness of Life). Introduction by Clayton Riley. Provenance: the library of James Baldwin in St. Paul de Vence (purchased by Burton Weiss in 1994), although there are no inscriptions or markings here to indicate that.$15.00Minneapolis: Coffee House Press (1995). Uncorrected proof. [86 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.$125.00NY: Emerson Hall (1973). Uncorrected proof. 131 pp. Spine sunned, else near fine in printed wrappers with “1970-1972” inked out on the front panel.$75.00Garden City: Zenith Books/Doubleday 1970. First edition. xix + 146 pp w/index of first lines & authors. Very near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light sunning and wear to spine, and overall edgewear.$50.00Cleveland: Jordan Press (1971). First edition. x + 10 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers with light toning along spine. Two page introduction by Russell Atkins.$20.00Houston: Khufu Books (1996). First edition. 126 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. INSCRIBED on the half-title page, “For ____ / thank you x 1,000,000 for lending your support to a new kid on the block.”$15.00NY: Pan-African Journal (1971). Volume IV, number 4. Near fine in printed wrappers. Poems by Nikki Giovanni and Quincy Troupe.$35.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1983). First edition. 82 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. Her first book. Review slip laid in.$15.00NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1997). First edition. 197 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. “Autographed Copy” sticker on front panel. SIGNED by Kincaid on the third leaf.$12.50Boulder: Umoja (1979). New Series Volume III, Number 2. Near fine in printed wrappers. Contributors include Manning Marable, Girma Negash, Otey M. Scruggs, others.$12.50Boulder: Umoja (1979). New Series Volume III, Number 3. Near fine in printed wrappers. Contributors include Valerie Lee, Brenda J. Allen, Ira Chernus, Ralph Mann, and others.$12.50Boulder: Umoja (1980). New Series Volume IV, Number 2. [86 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. Contributors include Inih A. Ebong, Clarence T. Walker, Phalul Egejuru, and others.$12.50Boulder: Umoja (1981). New Series Volume V, Number 1. Near fine in printed wrappers.