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Chicago: Third World Press, 1969. The Chicago poet's scarce second publication consists of two poems, "Black against the Muthafuckas" dedicated to UMOJA Student Center and The Chicago Student March and "Poem for Malcolm Memorial '69." Born in Bronzeville, Rodgers participated in writing workshops sponsored by Brooks and she was an active member of the Organization of Black American Culture. Chicago: Third World Press, 1969. 15 x 23 cm. Single piece of card, folded and printed on four sides. First edition. Slightly toned, creasing, 1cm intact tear to edge.. In very good condition.

London: Rich & Cowan Ltd., 1934. Inscribed "To Christine [sic] Foyle with happy memories of pleasant meetings" by Betty Ross along with signatures and notes from Sophie Tucker and others. Ross, a Jewish-American journalist in the United Kingdom, conducted a range of celebrity interviews in her lifetime, some compiled in this volume. Ross recounts meetings with Josephine Baker, Marie Stopes, Elinor Glyn, and Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. An association copy between career women, as Christina Foyle was the force behind London bookshop Foyle's. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards. Dust jacket with one small hole and several intact tears. xxii, 300, 32 adverts. pages. 19 x 13 cm. Very good book in very good jacket.

First edition, 1977, second printing after the 1938 first. Progress Publishers, Moscow. Large octavo, original yellow cloth, with copper casings fastened over both boards, designed by Koba Gouruli.
The Knight in the Panther's Skin is an unequivocal work by medieval Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli, this translation by Marjory Waldrop was the first prose translation in the English language. This copy bound in a unique copper relief casing featuring a traditional Georgian portrait to the front with a bold pattern and Georgian script to the rear board.
A prolific translator, Waldrop travelled to Georgia in the late 1800s when it was still part of Imperial Russia, and published three English translations of Georgian titles in the following five years. The Knight in the Panther's Skin was the fourth and final translation, but was only published in 1912 three years after her death. Waldrop refused publication in her lifetime, feeling it wasn't up to snuff. It remains the translation against which all others… Read More