Enugu, Nigeria: Nwankwo-Ifejika & Co., (1971). Softcover. First edition, preceding the revised London edition by a year. Cover by Emmanuel Okoro. Slim octavo. Stapled illustrated wrappers, as issued. Tiny spot on the front wrap, still fine. Poems mostly written during the Nigerian Civil War and immediate aftermath. The London edition..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Softcover. First edition. Pictorial wrappers lightly age-toned, near fine. More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some toning, internal foxing, and a tiny tear on the front spine fold. More

[No place]: William H. Atkinson, Sr. 1963. Softcover. First edition. Small octavo. 40pp. Stapled printed pale brown wrappers. Frontispiece portrait. A bit of rubbing on the front cover, near fine. African-American author's first of two books of poetry. More

Louisville, Kentucky: White Fields Press, 1994. Unbound. Pictorial broadside. Illustrated with a portrait of Baraka by Risasi Zachariah-Dais. Measuring 22" x 10". Trifle rubbed else fine. Copy C of 26 Signed lettered copies, this copy additionally Inscribed to a noted bookseller and friend of the press: "Gary Oleson / Amiri..... More

New York: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, (1991). Softcover. First edition. Cover art by Jim Basirico. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page. In 1990 Beatty became the first ever Grand Poetry Slam Champion of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe with one of his prizes being the..... More

Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin, (1971). Softcover. First paperback editions. Two volumes. Text of volume one toned in first half and rear with a few toned pages in volume two, rubbing and light edgewear on covers, overall very good. Contributions by Richard Gilman, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Robert Farnsworth, LeRoi Jones, Lorraine..... More

(Detroit, Michigan): Broadside Press, (1974). Softcover. First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Some edgewear, rubbing, and creasing else near fine. Poetry from a Black woman and student of Gwendolyn Brooks. More

New York: Harper & Row, (1971). Hardcover. First edition. Slightly cocked spine, foxing on the page edges, and spotting on the boards thus very good in a very good dust jacket with shallow chips, fading on the spines, and tiny tears. Contains *A Street in Bronzeville*; *Annie Allen*; *Maud Martha*;..... More

Detroit: Broadside Press, (1972). Softcover. First edition. Octavo. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Wraps lightly toned and with a bit of wear, dampstaining at the crown, very good. C.E. Cannon's first collection of poetry. Advance Review Copy, with publishers slip laid in. More

[1982]. Unbound. Gelatin silver photograph. Measuring 8" x 10". Fine. Inscribed in silver ink: "To Graham Hodges, Writer, teacher, friend with love Alice Childress April 15, 1982 William Patterson College." A photograph of author likely captured when she took part in an installment of the ''Conversations With Writers'' series hosted..... More

(Brooklyn, New York: LeRoy Clarke, 1974). Softcover. First edition. Oblong 16mo. Perfectbound in illustrated wrappers. A few spine creases, rubbing and a couple tiny stains, very good. Inscribed to Deirdre Bibby, a curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem, where Clarke served as the first artist-in-residence from 1971-1974: "for Diedre..... More