Corregidora
by Gayl Jones
New York: Random House, 1974. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition Stated with full RH number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); [6],185pp. Dust jacket rather yellowed, light foxing to textblock margins, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound. Exploring themes of generational trauma,... Read More
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Eva's Man
by Gayl Jones
New York: Random House, 1976. Very Good-/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 177pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $6.95 price present. Brown cloth over pink paper-covered boards stamped in electric pink. Toning and creasing to dust jacket; a few short tears to edges. "X" written in silver at base of spine. Boards show light... Read More
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Xarque and Other Poems
by Gayl Jones
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1985. Near Fine. Detroit: Lotus Press, 1985. First Edition, stated. Octavo; 70pp. Illustrated wraps. Very light rubbing to edges of wraps; binding sound; pages unmarked; Near Fine. A series of historical narrative poems concerning the Black presence and influence in Brazilian history.
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![Raise Race Rays Raze: Essays Since 1965 [Signed and inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/189/1694189262.0.m.jpg)
Raise Race Rays Raze: Essays Since 1965 [Signed and inscribed]
by Imamu Amiri Baraka [aka Leroi Jones]
New York: Random House, 1971. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition, stated. Signed by Baraka with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 169pp. Printed dust jacket. Yellow cloth-backed boards. Light rubbing and wear to unclipped dust jacket. Shelfwear to boards; bumping to corners; dust soiling to edges. Binding sound. "H" stamp to preliminaries, else... Read More
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Mister Pip [Signed]
by Lloyd Jones
London: John Murray, 2007. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: John Murray, 2007. First UK Edition. Octavo (22cm); 229pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with £12.99 price intact; boards bound in red cloth with gilt stamping to spine; red endsheets. Dust jacket shows ever-so-slightly bumped at spine ends; otherwise clean. Boards, likewise, bumped at spine ends; else remarkably clean. Binding sound.... Read More
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PRRWO & RWL: Not a 'Revolutionary Wing', But a Dangerous Duo!! [Signed by Baraka]
by [Revolutionary Communist League] Amiri Baraka [a.k.a. LeRoi Jones]
Newark, NJ: Revolutionary Communist League, 1976. Very Good. Newark, NJ: Revolutionary Communist League, 1976. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's red printed staplebound wrappers; [2],27pp.; printed mimeograph from typescript. Staples a bit oxidized, light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Signed by Baraka on p. [1].
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Leaving Atlanta [Signed]
by Tayari Jones
New York: Warner Books / AOL Time Warner, 2002. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Warner Books / AOL Time Warner, 2002. First Edition. Signed by Tayari Jones with date 10/7/02 to title page. Octavo; 255pp. Illustrated dust jacket; black cloth-backed boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket and boards rubbed along edges; binding sound; toning to pages, else unmarked;... Read More
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The Book of Monk [Limited Edition, Signed]
by [Thelonious Monk] Amiri Baraka [a.k.a. LeRoi Jones]
Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2005. Fine. Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2005. First Edition, Limited to 200 copies of which this is no. 187. Octavo; publisher's stitched white pictorial wrappers; [6],41pp. Very light soil to wrappers, else Near Fine. Signed by Baraka on colophon in rear. Issued as Razor Series no. 2, this edition of poems and... Read More
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Fluxus Codex
by Jon Hendricks; Robert Pincus-Witten [intro.]
Detroit, MI / New York: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection / Harry N. Abrams, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. [New York]: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection / Harry N. Abrams, 1988. First Edition. Thick oblong quarto (24x29cm); publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 616pp.; illus. throughout, some in full color. Dust jacket a bit rubbed and... Read More
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![[The Three Celebrated Plays of that Excellent Poet Ben Johnson] [with] Volpone: or, the Fox [with] The Alchemist [with] Epicoene: or, the Silent Woman [with] A True and Exact Catalogue of all the Plays and other Dramatick Pieces, That were ever yet Printed in the English Tongue, In Alphabetical Order: continu'd down to April 1732](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/466/702/1716702466.0.m.jpg)
[The Three Celebrated Plays of that Excellent Poet Ben Johnson] [with] Volpone: or, the Fox [with] The Alchemist [with] Epicoene: or, the Silent Woman [with] A True and Exact Catalogue of all the Plays and other Dramatick Pieces, That were ever yet Printed in the English Tongue, In Alphabetical Order: continu'd down to April 1732
by Ben Jonson
London: J. Walthoe...And sold by W. Feales, at Rowe's Head, over-against Clement's Inn Gate, 1732. Very Good. London: J. Walthoe...And sold by W. Feales, at Rowe's Head, over-against Clement's Inn Gate, 1732. 12mo (17 cm); lacking series title page, else complete. Woodcut frontis and section headers. Full contemporary boards in calf leather, blind tooled at margins and board... Read More
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Mauser Smallbores: Sporting, Target & Training Rifles
by Jon Speed; R. Blake Stevens [ed.]
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada: Collector Grade Publications Incorporated, 1998. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cobourg, Ontario, Canada: Collector Grade Publications Incorporated, 1998. First Edition. Oblong quarto. 349pp. Illustrations and photographs throughout, some color. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark red boards stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers. Mild rubbing to edges of dust jacket and boards. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Near Fine. ... Read More
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Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union [Signed by Jordan]
by June Jordan
New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. First Edition. Signed by June Jordan without inscription at title page. Octavo. 228pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth-backed boards stamped in silver. Ex-library though with minimal markings. Unclipped dust jacket lightly worn along edges; short tear and library sticker to rear. Light shelfwear to boards;... Read More
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Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems [Signed]
by June Jordan
New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989. First Edition, cloth issue. Octavo; publishers cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 211pp. Mild creasing and spotting along edges of unclipped dust jacket. Boards with faint soiling to top edge; binding sound; pages toned but unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. Signed... Read More
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Gabriela / Clove and Cinnamon
by Jorge Amado; James L. Taylor & William L. Grossman [trans.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 425 pp. + appendices. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact. Olive boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with a few minor nicks and general mild spotting. Boards sunned along edges. Binding is sound and pages... Read More
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Gettysburg's Bloody Wheatfield
by Jay Jorgensen
Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 2002. Near Fine. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Books, 2002. First Edition. Octavo. 178 pp. Black and white maps and photographs. Blue pebbled cloth stamped in gilt. Missing dust jacket. Boards gently rubbed at extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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A Single-Minded Bestiary
by Pierre Joris
Hayes, Middlesex, England: Poet & Peasant, 1974. Very Good. [Hayes, Middlesex, England: Poet & Peasant, 1974.] First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's staplebound card wrappers; [32]pp. printed mimeograph from typescript on rectos only. Light shelf wear, uneven spotting to wrapper margins, else Very Good and sound.
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Clairvoyant [Inscribed and Signed to James Tate with Typed Note Signed]
by Susanne Jorn
Copenhagen, Denmark: BOA Tryk + Reklame, 1993. Near Fine. [Copenhagen, Denmark: BOA Tryk + Reklame, 1993.] First Edition. Slim squarish quarto (21.5cm); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in silver foil; 54pp.; illus. throughout. Just About Fine. Bilingual text in Danish and English. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "Amherst 12.6.94 / To James Tate /... Read More
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Masterpieces of Australian Photography
by Josef Lebovic et al.
Sydney, Australia: Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989. Very Good. Sydney, Australia: Josef Lebovic Gallery, 1989. First Edition. Tall quarto; publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 200pp.; black and white photographs throughout. Light wear from handling, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Generously-illustrated and annotated catalog to accompany the exhibition of the same title held June 24 - July... Read More
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Fortitude and Temperance
by Josef Pieper; Daniel F. Coogan [trans.]
New York: Pantheon Books, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Pantheon Books, 1954. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's two-toned cloth in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); 128pp. Light shelf wear, dust jacket margins quite toned, especially spine panel, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, else Very Good and... Read More
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The Cowards
by Josef Skvorecky; Jeanne Nemcova [trans.]
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970. First UK Edition. Octavo. 416 pages. Printed dust jacket. Navy boards stamped in gilt. Skvorecky was born in Czechoslovakia but lived much of his life in Canada. He supported Czech dissident writers while writing on the horrors of totalitarianism. He was also... Read More
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Pleito de Casados Que siempre estan enojados
by Jose Guadalupe Posada [attrib.]
Mexico: Imp. de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1912. Good. Mexico: Imp. de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1912. First Edition. Pictorial broadsheet (30x21cm); recto printed within decorative border, verso within thick black mourning rule. Stock quite damp stained, large losses to top and bottom left-hand corners only just touching border without affecting text or illustration. A Good example overall. ... Read More
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Terribles Inundaciones En la Piedad Mixcoac, Tacuba y la Calzada de la Veronica! Una mujer y un niño ahogados! Cerca de quince mil pesos de perdidas! Hundimiento del tren de carga del F C Nacional en Rio Hondo, pereciéndote el maquinista!
by Jose Guadalupe Posada [attrib.]
Mexico: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1910. Good. Mexico: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. [ca. 1910]. Pictorial broadsheet (29x20cm); text and illustrations printed within thick black mourning border. Stock unevenly darkened and quite brittle with long shallow losses to top and bottom margins slightly touching imprint without loss of meaning. A Good example only. Penny newsletter... Read More
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Martin Fierro: El Gaucho Martin Fierro la Vuelta de Martin Fierro
by Jose Hernandez; Juan Lamela [illus.]
Buenos Aires: Hercules de Cesare y Oscar B. Carballeira, 1968. Very Good. Buenos Aires: Hercules de Cesare y Oscar B. Carballeria, 1968. Libro de Edicion Argentina. Numerous signatures on half title with inscription to Mr. William N. Goodson in Spanish, "in our highest literary expression. In the name of the executive secretariat and counsel of UNIMEV, as a... Read More
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Fotografia A Mallorca 1839-1936
by Maria Josep Mulet
Barcelona, Spain: Lunwerg Editores, Consell de Mallorca Department de Cultura, 2001. Very Good +/Very Good +. Barcelona, Spain: Lunwerg Editores, Consell de Mallorca Department de Cultura, "Sa Nostra" Caixa de Balears, 2001. First Edition. Square quarto. 349 pp. Photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in black. Rubbing to extremities of dust jacket with a small... Read More
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Phenomenology and the Social Sciences: A Dialogue
by Joseph Bien [ed.]; Richard M. Zaner, Edward A. Tiryakian, and Paul Ricoeur et al. [contribs.]
The Hague / Boston / London: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. Very Good. The Hague / Boston / London: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. 108 pp. Printed wraps. Light rubbing and sunning to edges of wraps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Scarce.
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