New York: Signet, 1987. First edition. Signed by author Bill Adler on the dedication page with the inscription, "8-14-87 To Steve, from his old pal Adler, who's finally found a job he likes (and I don't mean p.r.). Love, Adler." 192 pp. with 16 pages of photos. Bound in publisher's..... More
Tokyo: JICC, 1983. First edition. [64] pp. Staplebound booklet with plastic clamshell case containing cassette tape. Fine booklet, Near Fine case with a little rubbing and leaning to spine. Lacking obi band. Rare. A deluxe photo book to accompany the Japanese release of the classic film Wild Style, with early..... More
New York: Exposition Press, 1949. 54 pp. First edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth binding with titles in gilt. Very Good with cloth faded at spine, lightly worn. Pages toned. The African American author's first and only book of poetry. More
Philadelphia: John McGill White & Co., 1897. First edition. 263 pp. with photo frontis. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good with a few small areas of biopredation to cloth, spine faintly sunned, edges faintly foxed and a little stained. The author was an important African American..... More
New York: Random House, 1969. First edition, first printing with red topstain. Signed by Maya Angelou on the dedication page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt and red foil. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, light roiling to cloth and rubbing..... More
![Item #140947542 Maya Angelou's House: Valley Rd. Winston-Salem [Photo album]. Maya Angelou,...](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140947542.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1741030683)
Winston-Salem, NC: [No publisher], ca. 1980s. Photo album containing candid snapshots of Maya Angelou and her friends and associates. Fifty-seven photos, of which 23 are in color and 34 in black and white, under glassine on sticky album pages. Bound in padded red and gold paper-covered boards, handlettered label sticker..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1931. First edition. 357 pp. Original cloth with navy lettering. Near Fine with slight mottling to cloth, dust-soiled edges, in About Very Good dust jacket with darkened spine panel, soiling, faint dampstaining along top edge of front panel wear at head and tail. A collection of..... More
Cambridge, MA: Credo, 1962. Original pressing. Credo 1. Good album with some scratches in a Good sleeve,creased corner, stain on front cover. An uncommon album of the African American author James Baldwin being interviewed by sociologist Studs Terkel, recorded at WFMT in Chicago. Baldwin's thoughts on race have been referenced..... More
New York: Dial Press, 1964. First edition. xviii, 121, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with blue lettering. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, else Fine in Very Good dust jacket with rubbing and edge wear, unclipped ($3.95). More
New York: The Dial Press, 1963. First edition, first printing. Signed by James Baldwin on the half-title page, the author has also written his New York City address on the facing page. Bound in publisher's original cream cloth stamped in red. Near Fine with light wear to corners, a few..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1963. Uncorrected long galley proof copy of the first edition of James Baldwin's seminal text on race in America. In publisher's original plastic comb binding with thick brown card covers with paper title label to upper cover. Near Fine with several teeth missing from comb..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1956. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's marble effect boards over black cloth backstrip, spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with tide mark to bottom of textblock edge, light-dust soiling and contents tanned with offsetting to endsheets. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Advance reading copy, issued to reviewers before publication of the first edition, with alternate artwork not used in the first edition. [x], 303, [1] pp. Perfectbound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Very Good, dampstain to front wrap; spine sunned, creased, and rubbed along edges. Slight..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. First edition. [viii], 197 pp. Bound in publisher's reddish orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn. An attractive copy of the novel by African American expatriate author James Baldwin that inspired the 2018 film by the..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. First edition. [viii], 197 pp. Bound in publisher's reddish orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very God with glue stain to front free endpaper, slighty foxed edges, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, slightly sunned, front flap creased. The novel by African American expatriate..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. Deluxe first edition. Number 76 of limited 250 copies signed by James Baldwin on the rear limitation page. 197 pp. Bound in publisher's leather lettered in gilt in the original brown paper covered slipcase. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with sticker residue on..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. First edition, one of 500 signed by James Baldwin on limitation page at rear. [x], 597 pp. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, housed in matching slipcase. Fine, still sealed in publisher's shrink wrap with slight tearing and yellowing..... More
Zurich: Edition Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, 1985. First edition, first printing. Number 994 of a limited 1000 copies singed by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in black. Fine in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial wear and toning to edges. A handsome copy of..... More
Hanover, Germany: Carl Haenlein, 1986. First edition. Signed by Jean-Michel Basquiat on the front free endpaper in sharpie, dated in the year of publication. 105, [10] pp. Bound in publisher's stiff wraps. Text in German. Very Good with vertical creasing along wraps, slight shelf wear. A rare German exhibition catalog..... More
New York: McMillen Inc, 1941. First edition. 4 pp. Bound in publisher's blue wraps lettered in brown. Good+ with vertical fold, light toning and small stains on front and rear covers. An incredibly scarce piece of African American memorabilia featuring the works of artists of the Harlem Renaissance. This was..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First edition, first printing of an early '90s hip-hop photo book. xx, 108 pp. Bound in publisher's pictorial wraps. Near Fine with very light wear. Portraits of hip-hop musicians from the 1980s and 90s, including Queen Latifah, Ice Cube, Big Daddy Kane, Tribe Called..... More
![Item #140945978 Observations on the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes [bound after]...](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140945978.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707632292)
Germantown: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1759-1760. Three separately published works in one volume. Second printing of the first edition of Benezet's tract. First American editions, first printings of the other two works, which precede it. Bound in rustic period sheep. viii, 280; 168; 16pp. Head chipped, wear and stains to..... More
Oakland & San Francisco: The Black Panther Party, 1967-1980. An extensive collection of 237 numbers in 234 issues (Volume 2, Numbers 15-17 are printed in a single volume and Volume 6, Numbers 13 and 14 are as well). Intermittent run spanning from the first volume to the final volume (the..... More
![Item #140945158 [Black Panthers] The People Will Free the Panther 21, By Any Means Necessary....](https://burnsiderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/140945158.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1687138874)
[New York?]. circa 1969-1971. Silk-screen poster, 17" x 22, thin fragile yellow paper printed in red and blue. Near Fine with minor wear on bottom edge. The Panther 21 was a group of twenty-one Black Panther members who were arrested and accused of planned coordinated bombing and long-range rifle attacks..... More
San Francisco: Guerilla, 1968. Two-sided broadsheet, 22 1/2" x 16 1/4". Very Good with two mailing folds, light toning, minimal wear, pencil on verso. Volume 2, issue 3 of the radical periodical Guerrilla. Stored folded-up. More