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Color photograph, 4 wide x 6" high, of a pastel portrait of Marian Anderson as she sings. Signed by Marian Anderson with a soft-tip pen on the reverse with a flourish beneath her name. BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA, pp. 29-33.
COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF PASTEL PORTRAIT, SIGNED
Anderson, Marian.
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First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 8vo, 295pp; black boards with red cloth spine lettered in gold; red dust jacket. Crinkle at front flap; spine mildly sunned. Very good. Toni Cade Bambara (b. 1939), short story writer, essayist and novelist, has been a community activist and an educator as well as a writer. Recently she has been working on screenplays. GORILLA, MY LOVE (1972) established her reputation as a short story writer. THE SALT EATERS, her first novel, focuses on Velma Henry, an activist frustrated by divisiveness within the black community. The novel received the American Book Award and is perhaps her finest work. Fine. WOMEN'S WRITING, p. 93.
THE SALT EATERS
Bambara, Toni Cade.
New York: Random House, (1980).
Price: $125.00
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First edition. 1/26 lettered copies, this being copy "S". 8vo, 116pp; gray leather stamped in black front and spine with PEN/Faulkner logo in blind at front; publisher's black cloth clamshell box stamped in gold and blind. Illustratedwith an original silk screen signed by Lou Stovall. Brief essays on "Obsession" by Louis Begley, David Bradley, Robert Olen Butler, Thomas Flanagan, Ernest Gaines, Barry Hannah, Maureen Howard, Jayne Anne Phillips, George Plimpton, Francine Prose, Vikram Seth, Mary Lee Settle, Ntozake Shange, Elizabeth Spencer and Scott Spencer and signed by them. Fine.
OBSESSION
Begley, Louis et al.
(Rockville, MD): Quill and Brush, 1994.
Price: $250.00
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SINGING IN THE COMEBACK CHOIR
Campbell, Bebe Moore.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1998).
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First edition. No. 126 of 200 hardcover copies signed by the author. 8vo, 169pp; decorated gray paper over boards with bright orange cloth spine, printed label at spine; acetate wrapper (but no dust jacket, as issued). Small ding to lower edge of front cover. Near fine. Wanda Coleman's second book of poetry.
IMAGOES
Coleman, Wanda.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1983.
Price: $75.00
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First edition. Limited edition: 1/100 hardcover copies numbered and signed copies, this being copy 27. 8vo, 291pp; turquoise paper, with photographs of Los Angeles, over boards; turquoise cloth spine; paper label at spine; blue endpapers. Fine. "A Career in Brief" introduces this book of reflections and memories which ranges from "Jazz Blues" to "Interview with Nikki Giovanni" to "Sleepless in L.A." Black Sparrow also printed a soft cover edition of the title. 26 lettered copies were handbound by Earle Gray.
NATIVE IN A STRANGE LAND Trials & Tremors
Coleman, Wanda.
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1996.
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First edition. 12mo, 147pp; pictorial blue cloth stamped in dark blue on the front cover and lettered in gilt on the spine; t.e.g. Some offsetting along gutters; owner's ink inscription dated October, 1895 at front flyleaf. Fine. Illustrated by E.W. Kemble, the illustrator of THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, with a frontispiece and black and white engravings throughout the text. The three stories, "sketches of negro character" according to the Preface, originally appeared in THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Dana had published under the initials "O.A.W." for 'Only a Woman'. Wright III 1386.
OUR PHIL and Other Stories
Dana, Katharine Floyd.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1889.
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First edition. 8vo, 73pp; + "About the Author"; deep turquoise cloth lettered in gold at the spine; decorated red dust jacket. Fine. Rita Dove, b. 1952, poet, novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist and educator, served as U.S. Poet Laureate in 1993, the youngest and first African American to enjoy this honor. GRACE NOTES is her fourth collection of poetry. OXFORD COMPANION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, pp. 226-227.
GRACE NOTES
Dove, Rita.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1989).
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First edition. 8vo, 173pp; + Endmatter; black boards with gray cloth spine stamped in silver; photographic dust jacket lettered in silver. Thirteen pieces, six unpublished during the writer's life. Fine.
FLYING HOME and Other Stories Edited and with an Introduction by John F. Callahan
Ellison, Ralph.
New York: Random House, (1996).
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First edition. 8vo, 101pp; white linen cloth stamped in copper front and spine; beige dust jacket with woodcuts by David Frampton. Pages framed by a single red rule at the outer margin with a stylized Christmas star at the top corner of the recto leaf. Dust jacket’s front flap is price-clipped. A Christmas story placed in 1855 about a Southerner, a slave and the Underground Railroad. Fine.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS
Haley, Alex.
New York: Doubleday, (1988).
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First edition. 8vo, 188pp; + a capsule biography of the writer; orange wove cloth with black stamping; orange dust jacket lettered in tan and black. Spine sunned to a light orange; minor touches to use to jacket. Very good. 22 prose pieces written during the '60s and '70s reflecting on the racial strife which harried America during this period. June Jordan (b. 1936), essayist, educator, activist, novelist, biographer, playwright and anthologist, has been one of the African-American communities most versatile and spirited writers. Her first book of poetry, LOOK AT ME, published in 1969 marked her as an eloquent new voice. She has since published nearly 20 books, ranging from children's titles such as KIMAKO'S STORY to essays on the African-American experience such as CIVIL WARS and TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES (1992). THE ESSENTIAL BLACK LITERATURE GUIDE, pp. 202-204. OXFORD GUIDE TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, pp. 409-410.
CIVIL WARS
Jordan, June.
Boston: Beacon Press, (1981).
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First separate edition. "Need" originally appeared in CHOSEN POEMS, OLD AND NEW and was revised for this edition. 8vo, 20pp; lime green paper wrappers (stapled) printed in black. With a Kitchen Table printed postcard (catalogue request) with button pinned to front cover. The button, in black, red and white, reads "WE / CANNOT / LIVE / WITHOUT / OUR LIVES / [female symbol]. Button's pin rusty with consequent rust traces transferred to title page opposite. Generally very good. With a preface by Audre Lorde in which she writes: "This revised version of NEED; A CHORALE FOR BLACK WOMAN VOICES is created for particular use in classes, small community meetings, families, churches, and discussion groups, to open a dialogue between and among Black women and Black men on the subject of violence against women within our communities". She notes that she first wrote the chorale "in 1979 after 12 Black women were killed in the Boston area within four months". Various grassroots groups organized a march behind a banner emblazoned: "WE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT OUR LIVES". The Poet opens the chorale: "This woman is Black / so her blood is shed into silence / this woman is Black / so her blood falls to earth / like the droppings of birds / to be washed away with silence and rain". Endmatter includes a list of "Resources for Organizing", "Publications", "Other Titles from Kitchen Table", and "About the Author", a brief profile, with photograph, of Audre Lorde.
NEED: A CHORALE FOR BLACK WOMAN VOICES
Lorde, Audre.
(Latham, New York): Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, (1990).
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First trade edition. 8vo, 229pp; black cloth stamped in gold; printed black dust jacket with author photograph at rear panel. Fine.
JAZZ A Novel
Morrison, Toni.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
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First edition. 8vo, 318pp; black wove cloth with copper stamping front and spine; green dust jacket lettered in copper and white. Fine. Toni Morrison's first novel after winning the Nobel Prize.
PARADISE
Morrison, Toni.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
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First edition. 8vo, 337pp; black cloth stamped in gold on the spine; yellow dust jacket designed by R.D. Scudellari. Front flap of dust jacket is price-clipped; a little rumpling at top edge of rear pane; mild sunning to spine. Very good. Toni Morrison's third book which received the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named as one of THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 books of the 20th century. Morrison received the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature. NYPL BOOKS OF THE CENTURY, p. 33. THE NEW YORK TIMES 100, No. 93.
SONG OF SOLOMON
Morrison, Toni.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
Price: $200.00
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First edition. 8vo, 189pp; dark gray boards with black cloth spine lettered in red and silver; pictorial dust jacket designed by George Sanders. Faint shadow at rear panel; minor touches of wear to top edge of dust jacket. Near fine. Gloria Naylor (b. 1950) published her first book, THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE, while still completing her MA at Yale University in Afro-American studies. This exceptional debut received the American Book Award for Best First Novel. Later, under Oprah Winfrey's direction, the novel was adapted for television. MASTERPIECES OF WOMEN'S LITERATURE, pp. 568-573. OXFORD COMPANION TO AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, pp. 527-528.
THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE A Novel in Seven Stories
Naylor, Gloria.
New York: The Viking Press, (1982).
Price: $450.00
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First edition. Signed by Barbara Neely at the title page. 8vo, 258pp; red boards with black spine lettered in gold; pictorial dust jacket in red, orange, yellow, purple, white and black. Touch of ink residue to verso of title page, else fine. The third appearance of Blanche White, housekeeper and detective extraordinary.
BLANCHE CLEANS UP
Neely, Barbara.
(New York): Viking, (1998).
Price: $45.00
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First edition. Signed by Dori Sanders at the title page. Small 8vo, 243pp; peach boards with blue cloth spine stamped in gold; pictorial dust jacket illustrated by Cynthia Amrine. With errata slip and signed bookmark laid in. The writer's second book. Fine.
HER OWN PLACE A Novel
Sanders, Dori.
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, (1993).
Price: $80.00
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First edition. 8vo, 209pp; green boards with blue spine lettered in copper; turquoise dust jacket with illustration by Jody Kim front cover. Fine. The writer's second book (and first novel). A Granta nominee.
ONE DARK BODY
Sherman, Charlotte Watson.
(New York): HarperCollins, (1993).
Price: $45.00
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First edition. Signed by the writer at the title page. Small 8vo, 299pp; reddish-purple boards with black cloth spine stamped in gold; black dust jacket with illustration by Jose Ortega front cover. Fine. Review copy of the writer's first book with a "Dear Reviewer" letter from a HarperCollins' publicist laid in. A young black woman raised in the quiet of rural Virginia is thrust into the chaos and racial turbulence of Detroit. Toni Morrison described this debut as "truly extraordinary".
THE GOOD NEGRESS
Verdelle, A.J.
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, (1995).
Price: $75.00
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