Twenty-five new arrivals, including exceptional copies of books by Ntozake Shange, Sandra Cisneros, the pioneering Puerto Rican poet Diana Ramirez de Arellano, and Tom Wolfe, among others.
First Edition. Essays on equality and social change by the great basketball player who has found a second career as a public intellectual. Written with Raymond Obstfeld. 243 pages. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Abdul-Jabbar on.....
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First Edition. A reduced-size paperback edition of this pairing of pictures by Avedon with text by Baldwin. A few years ahead of its time, this collection of Avedon photographs seems to trace the fracturing of American culture, beginning with his portraits of royalty and American blue bloods before progressing into the.....
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Uncorrected Proof. An uncommon tall proof, preceding the first edition of this "scenario" or unproduced screenplay based on Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X. This screenplay was the starting point for Spike Lee's biopic Malcolm X, starring Denzel Washington, but the Baldwin estate didn't want James Baldwin's name on.....
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First Edition. A Double D Western, most of which are scarce in hardcover. D. B. Newton, who wrote under a variety of pseudonyms, was a founding member of the Western Writers of America, which gives out the Spur Awards each year. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a near fine.....
Price: $50
First Edition. A Double D Western, most of which are scarce in hardcover. D. B. Newton, who wrote under a variety of pseudonyms, was a founding member of the Western Writers of America, which gives out the Spur Awards each year. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a near.....
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First Edition. One of the most important and popular books in the Chicano literary canon, a collection of connected short stories. One of just 500 copies (according to the publisher). 103 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback), bumped at the bottom of the spine, with a......
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![Item No: #308304 Muller ceiba [Loose Woman, in Galician]. Sandra Cisneros](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308304.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630187558)
A bilingual edition of Cisneros's poetry collection, Loose Woman, presented in the original English with a Galician translation by Marilar Aleixandre on the facing page (Galician is a language spoken in Northern Spain). 197 pages. First edition (first printing of this edition). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback), with a wrap-around.....
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![Item No: #308303 My Wicked Wicked Ways [Signed Collector's Set]. Sandra Cisneros](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308303.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630187549)
First Edition. Three versions of this popular poetry collection, all first editions and all signed. 1. First edition (first printing) from Third Woman Press, signed by Cisneros on the title page; 2. Advance reading copy (ARC) of the first hardcover edition, inscribed by Cisneros on the title page, "Para el Tomás.....
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First Edition. A collection of interrelated stories. Cisneros's first book from a New York publisher. This set, assembled by a collector and housed in a black-cloth clamshell case, includes the following: 1) Advance Reading Copy (ARC), signed by Cisneros on the title page; 2) First edition, inscribed on the title page, "Para.....
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First Edition. A play and the basis of the film of the same title. "This is not a play about a homosexual, but a play that takes the homosexual milieu, and the homosexual way of life, totally for granted and uses this as a valid basis for human experience"—Clive Barnes, The.....
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First Edition. The author's first book, a novel, written before he turned to short fiction. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy (minor bumping and fading to spine ends; small stain on the title page) in a near fine jacket with just the mildest bumping to the spine ends.....
Price: $250
First Edition. The memoirs of the brother of the assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers. xii, 196 pages. First edition (stated first printing). Very good in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, "Thanks for reading my book, Charles Evers, Mayer, Fayette, Miss. 4-5-89."
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First Edition. Ten poems by Cavafy paired with ten captioned black-and-white photographs by Michals placed on the following pages. The work is homoerotic, with many of the photographs incorporating male nudes. Michals explains the intent of the book in his short introduction: "Because [Cavafy] was a man who loved other men.....
Price: $200
First Edition. "An extraordinary novel of Negro life on an isolated plantation"—the dust jacket. "Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailing sentimental stereotypes of her times, she portrayed her black characters with sympathy and understanding, endowing them with the.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A collection of poems from the one-time poet laureate of Puerto Rico. She was born in New York and taught there for many years. Arellano was one of just a handful of active Latina writers working before the 1970s. One of 300 copies. 68 pages. First edition (first printing.....
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First Edition. A collection of poems from the author of the play "For Colored Girls..." 148 pages. First edition (first printing, with no later printings noted). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, with the errata slip and review materials laid in, including a signed author photograph. Shange.....
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First Edition. This is the correct first edition of the author's second book, with a 1976 date on the copyright pages (most copies are dated 1977); the $1.85 price on the back cover; and dimensions of 5-3/4 by 9 inches. The first section of a four part novel. 38 pages.....
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![Item No: #308316 Between the Yes and the No [Broadside]. James Tate](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308316.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630187571)
An attractive broadside of a Tate poem, cut in wood by Wang Hui-Ming and (probably) included in The Land On The Tip Of A Hair: Poems In Wood (1972). 9 by 12 inches. Near fine, signed by Tate and the artist and dated in 1971. The image is printed a bit.....
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![Item No: #308375 Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown Ups [Signed, Numbered]. Kay...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308375.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630187590)
A signed, limited edition of the first book featuring Eloise, an adventurous six-year-old girl who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. "Eloise" was first published in 1955, and ever since it has charmed generations of children and the adults lucky enough to read the book aloud to.....
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First Edition. The author's second Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a "signed first edition" sticker on the cover. Signed by Whitehead on the title page.
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![Item No: #308387 The Underground Railroad [Signed]. Colson Whitehead](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308387.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630187601)
First Edition. This acclaimed novel re-imagines the underground railroad, the informal network of guides and safehouses that help enslaved people escape bondage before the Civil War, as an actual railroad network running below ground. Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. This is one of an unspecified.....
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![Item No: #308389 From Bauhaus to Our House [Signed, Limited]. Tom Wolfe](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308389.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1630187614)
First Edition. Wolfe looks at American architecture. This is one of 350 numbered copies signed by Wolfe. Bound in tan cloth and housed in a blue cloth slipcase. First edition (first printing stated). A fine copy in a near fine slipcase. This is copy 121 of 350 signed by Wolfe.....
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First Edition. A wry, even caustic, take on some of the social movements of the 1960s. In Radical Chic, "Wolfe describes one of the intriguing phenomena of our time: the courting of romantic radicals—Black Panthers, striking grapeworkers, Young Lords—by New York's socially elite" and in Mau-Mauing, he surveys the San.....
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