Search Results: African-American Literature from Charles Agvent

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Publisher's orange and gray cloth. West Indies author's second book and first novel.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Publisher's orange and green cloth. Her first book. Dustjacket praise by fellow Caribbean author Derek Walcott.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper with touch of wear to spine head. Publisher's orange and green cloth. Her first book. Dustjacket praise by fellow Caribbean author Derek Walcott. INSCRIBED to Emily with "Best wishes" and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page.

Tuskegee, AL, 7 Dec. 1897. Autograph. Mild aging of paper. About Fine. A fine quote--"Be too great to be little"--on a 6-1/2" x 8" page removed from an autograph album SIGNED and dated by Washington in Tuskegee. The verso bears an unknown signature as does the top of the page that Washington has signed, but this could be easily removed or matted over. A wonderful display piece.

New York: Random House Audio, 1998. Cassette Tape. As new in shrinkwrap. A 12-hour unabridged presentation of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel on eight cassette tapes. "You are your best thing."

New York: St. Martin's Press, (1985). First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Uncorrected proof in green wraps.

New York: Soho Press, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Wrinkling to pastedowns, small bumps to the bottom edge of the front board. Still Near Fine in about Fine dustwrapper with faint crease to front panel. Haitian native and Granta writer's first book INSCRIBED by her to a poet: "It was wonderful/hanging out with/you in Atlanta./I look forward/reading some of/your poems in/Colorado Review./Best Regards," and SIGNED.

New York: E. P. Dutton, (1911). First Edition. Owner name dated 1912 on front blank. Hinges cracked but tight. Very Good and uncommon. Duncan Smith. Collection of tales in dialect revolving around the Black Mammy. Illustrated with 7 plates by Duncan Smith.

[Newark, NJ ]: Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger, 1980. First Edition. Broadside. Minor soiling, light edgewear, a couple of ink strokes in the text. Very Good. A SIGNED broadside (9-1/2" x 13") of this poem printed on the dedication of the author's reading at Walker Art Center. Copy #13 of 85. We also have copy #12 in similar condition.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Prints Morrison's brief speech on the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine first issue dustwrapper. His first Easy Rawlins mystery and first book.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1979. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Burt Silverman. Bound in full brown decorated leather. The First SIGNED Limited edition of Baldwin's first book with a previously unpublished introduction by the author. Illustrated by Burt Silverman.

London: Allison & Busby, (1984). First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Published in 1981 in America in a paperback edition, this is the first hardcover edition.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Very light dustspotting to the top bulked edge of the text. Near Fine in a Near Fine, bright dustwrapper with a few minor wrinkles. Cloth-backed boards. Author's first book. Long blurb by Ralph Ellison on the rear of the dustwrapper.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Minor bumps to corners of boards, often found with this title. Small ink(?) mark to front board. Near Fine in a Near Fine, bright dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Author's first book. Long blurb by Ralph Ellison on the rear of the dustwrapper.

New York: Pantheon, (1998). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Robert Bergman. Folio (9-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in black cloth. Introduction by Toni Morrison and afterword by Meyer Schapiro, the only text in this absolutely stunning collection of color photographic portraits, mostly of street people, which Schapiro says "bring to mind some of the greatest painted portraits." Bergman created his own color separations, using high-resolution digital equipment, for these photographs which were taken with a simple 35 mm camera, amateur film, no tripod, and no special lighting. Of this, his first book, Morrison states, "Occasionally there arises an event or a moment that one knows immediately will forever mark a place in the history of artistic endeavor. Robert Bergman's portraits represent such a moment." Obviously, no light praise and well deserved once you see these truly amazing photographs that have the power to stop you in your tracks.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a short tear at bottom front. Author's second book. The dustwrapper was designed by Chris Van Allsburg.

New York: Harcourt Brace Johanovich, (1973). First Edition. Hardcover. Faint sticker shadow on front pastedown. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a short closed tear at the bottom rear. His third and arguably best book.

New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to bulked text edges, otherwise Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. This novel about a free slave stowaway won the National Book Award.

New York: Atheneum, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. This novel about a free slave stowaway won the National Book Award.