Providence, RI: Angell & Co., Printers, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo size, 230 pp. William J. Brown (1814-1855) was a free African American born in Providence in 1814, the son and grandson of slaves owned by abolitionist Moses Brown. William Brown wrote and published his captivating autobiography as a means... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, no Newbery Medal on dust jacket, octavo size, 288 pp. Coming-of-age novels spin stories that resonate with people from all walks of life, and "M. C. Higgins, the Great" is no exception. Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002) masterfully tells the... More
Taunton, Massachusetts: Robert Hayden / Effendi Press, 1978. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 46 of 100, octavo size, [47] pp., signed by Robert Hayden. Born Asa Bundy Sheffey, Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was the first African-American to hold the office of "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress" - today known... More
New York: Carleton Press, A Reflection Book, 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo size, 33 pp. 'Deep South Showman' is the life-story of Eddie Wilson, an Alabama-born African-American who became known as "The Moving Picture Man" in the rural South during the Twenties and Thirties (from the dust jacket). The story... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2000. Puryear, Martin. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 78 of 400 copies, oblong folio size, [144] pp., signed by Martin Puryear, with the prospectus, invoice, and an invitation from the Grabhorn Institute. "'Cane' is regarded as the highest literary achievement of the Harlem Renaissance and a masterpiece... More
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New York: (Limited Editions Club), (1983). Bearden, Romare. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 351 of 2000 copies, folio size, 231 pp., signed by Derek Walcott and Romare Bearden, with LEC Monthly Letter. Derek Walcott (b. 1930), although trained as a painter, turned to writing as a young man, having his first... More