The Essential Black Literature Guide by Valade, Roger M., III - 1996

Visible Ink Press, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Canton, Michigan, U.S.A.: Visible Ink Pr, 1998. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. trade paperback, with rements of a sticker upper front corner o/w contents are clean, spine not broken.

Detroit/ New York: Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture/ Visible Ink, 1996. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. Very Good+. 24326 shelf. Solid trade paperback, b/w photo covers feature Richard Wright. Small fore-edge stain, slight handling. No names, clean text. With many b/w photos, index. Articles: Sidney Poitier, Ann Petrie, Ben Okri, Clarence Major, Nella Larsen, et al.

New York: Visible Ink/ The Schomberg Center, 1996. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. Very Good+. 2400 shelf. Thick trade paperback, photo black/sienna covers, remainde rmk bottom edge. Faint spine crease, light soil upper fore-edge. No names, clean text. With b/w photos, repros. Index. Entries: Jamaica Kincaid, Barbara Jordan, Gayl Jones, Ralph Ellison, Maya Angelou, et al.

Detroit: Visible Ink, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. A pioneering work that includes important biographical details and photos on every major Black writer and is of indispensable value to students of Black literature. With chronology, bibliography and index. A clean, unmarked, bright copy.

Detroit: Visible Ink Press. 1996. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Near Fine in wraps. .

1996. Detroit, New York, Washington D.C., Toronto, Visible Ink Press, 1996. 15 cm x 23 cm. XVIII, 446 pages. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white portrait photographs. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. A survey encompassing a rich array of genres, nations and time periods. Entries are organized alphabetically and include: Biographies / Literary Work Synopses / Themes, Topics and Literary Movement Essays / Terms and Genre Essays. There is also a Timeline of major events - a chronology covering the slavery era to Maya Angelou's reading of her poetry at the 1993 inauguration of President Bill Clinton. Entries include, for example: Afrocentrism / Apartheid / Jesse Jackson / Journalism / Jazz / Desmond Tutu / Underground Railroad / Segregation / etc. Writers included, for example: Chinua Achebe / James Baldwin / Langston Hughes / Toni Morrsion / Alice Walker / Richard Wright / etc.