Search Results: African-American Literature from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

New York: Arcade, (1994). First edition. Top corners just slightly bumped, else fine in dust jacket..

New York: Morrow, 1976. First edition.. New York: Morrow, 1976. First edition. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket, slightly sunned at the spine, with light wear, and a small tear..

Boston: Small, Maynard& Company, 1919. First edition. Octavo, brown boards, backed in dark brown cloth, paper labels, pp. xiv, 320. With contributions by Claude McKay, Louis Untermeyer, Witter Bynner, and others. Dime-sized piece lacking from front free endpaper, pages partially unopened, binding is worn bare to the boards at the corners and the top edge of the rear board, covers lightly marked, labels worn. Just a good copy..

Cambridge: Issued by W.S.B. [i.e. the author], 1914. First edition. Octavo, brown boards, backed in dark brown cloth, paper labels, pp. xxiv, 205. With contributions by Bliss Carman, Louis Untermeyer, Witter Bynner, Richard Le Gallienne, and others. Corners worn bear to the boards, covers lightly marked, labels rubbed. Just a good copy, but an early volume in this annual series, self-published by Braithwaite before Small Maynard took it up..

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First edition. This title was selected by the American Library Association as one of their Notable Books for the year 1993. Fine in dust jacket..

New York: Saint Martin's Press, (1985). First edition. A novel. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket, just slightly faded at the spine..

New York: St. Martin's, (1994). First edition. Dust jacket blurb by Ntozake Shange likens Neely's Blanche to Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Simple. Rear endpapers have a ragged edge from a production fault, else a fine copy in dust jacket..

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1969). First edition. 8vo., lime green cloth, pp. [278]. Slight spine slant, else very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket, with some light wrinkling, and tiny chips to the spine ends and corners..

(London): MacGibbon & Kee, (1969). First English ed. 8vo., blue boards, pp. xii, 244. Index. Paper has tanned, lower corners and top edge of front board are bumped, else very good. No dust jacket..

(London): Longman, (1970). First English edition. Fading to covers, else near fine, in a very good, unfaded, price-clipped dust jacket..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. First edition. Near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket [a few tiny edge-tears]. A nice copy..

New York: St. Martin's, (1983). First edition. Poetry. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with a couple of short edge tears..

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1983). First edition.. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, (1983). First edition. Fine in dust jacket..

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1967). First edition. Octavo, green cloth, top page edge stained salmon red, pp. 214. Dust jacket blurb reads: " This first novel by a young [African] American writer has the distinction of having been publihed in Paris, in a French translation, before its appearance in English. It has already been hailed abroad as the work of a remarkable writer, and described as a difficult but engaging book of poetic beauty, tragic and illuminating it its evocation of the ghetto noir". The main narrative which begins in Greenwich Village uses "stylized, ornate and even baroque language". Bumping to lower corners of the covers, one corner slightly bared, otherwise very good, in a price-clipped dust jacket, which is edge-worn along the top edge, with a tiny chip, small tears and some creasing. Despite these small flaws, a solid, clean, attractive copy offered with a mylar dust jacket protector..

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1967). First edition. Octavo, green cloth, top page edge stained salmon red, pp. 214. Dust jacket blurb reads: "This first novel by a young [African] American writer has the distinction of having been publihed in Paris, in a French translation, before its appearance in English. It has already been hailed abroad as the work of a remarkable writer, and described as a difficult but engaging book of poetic beauty, tragic and illuminating it its evocation of the ghetto noir". The main narrative which begins in Greenwich Village uses "stylized, ornate and even baroque language". Very near to fine in an unclipped dust jacket, with just very slight sunning to the red lettering on the spine. Nice copy..

New York: Dial, (1987). First edition. Pictures in sepia by Michael Hays. A young African American girl and her family travel from Ohio to Mississippi in their new Cadillac, in 1950. Along the way they learn painful lessons about racism. Obviously for a mature child. Fine in a price-clipped dust jacket, with sticker shadow to front panel..

New York: Scribner, 1995. First edition. ed. Poetry. Short remainder line to bottom edge, lower corners slightly bumped, else fine in dust jacket..

(Toronto): Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 1992. First Canadian edition. Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature [1993]. This title was selected by the American Library Association as one of their Notable Books for the year 1993. Near fine in dust jacket, with a small nick at edge of front panel, and some faint wrinkles at the top edge of the rear panel..

New York: Dial, (1979). First edition.. Hardcover. Fine. Review copy, with the Canadian publisher's slip laid in. Fine in dust jacket, with a 1 cm tear to the front panel and creasing to the rear panel.

London: Bodley Head, (1965). First English edition of the author's first book. Tidy name on endpaper, top edge a little dusty, small bumps to top edges of covers, o/w very good in dj showing a 3 cm long slender black stain to spine, an ink revision of the price on the front flap and some over-all dust soiling..