THE SEVERAL LIVES OF CHESTER HIMES
Jackson MS: University Press of Mississippi, (1997). First printing. 8vo, pp. xv, 209. Notes, list of works, index. Illustrated wtih photographs. Blue cloth. About as new in slightly scuffed dj. More
Jackson MS: University Press of Mississippi, (1997). First printing. 8vo, pp. xv, 209. Notes, list of works, index. Illustrated wtih photographs. Blue cloth. About as new in slightly scuffed dj. More
NY: Crown, (1999). First printing. Small 4to, pp. 272. Notes, index. Copiously illustrated. Foreword by Juan Williams .A nice copy in very slightly scuffed dj. More
Cambridge MA: Da Capo, (2001). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 248. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in near fine dj. More
NY: Norton, (1994). First Edition. Small 4to, pp. 190. Text by Marsalis, photos by Stewart. A nice copy in little scuffed dj. Text and photos of a road trip--"...the full, heady flavor of jazz life at trhe end of the twentieth century." More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1880. Revised edn., 59th thousand. 8vo, pp. 243. Bound in red cloth stamped in black and gilt, cloth faded. A good copy. Includes a frontispiece and the last portion of the book reprints the music and lyrics of the songs. The Jubilee singers were a group of..... More
NY: Random, (1959). First printing. 8vo, pp. 310. Paper overe boards with cloth spine. A VG tight copy in scuffed and soiled, little chipped, price clipped dj. Her first book. More
NY: Vintage, (1984). First Vintage Books edition. 8vo, pp. 472. Author's signature on title. Paper wraps. Edges and cover little soiled, cover creased front and back at lower corners, o/w a VG tight copy. From Wikipedia: "Marshall was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents who had migrated..... More
NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1969). First edition. 8vo, pp. 472. Green cloth. Edges and cover little soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. A novel. More
NY: Putnam's, (1983). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 256. Paper over boards. A nice copy in little chipped and torn dj. More
Old Westbury NY: Feminist Press, (1983). First printing. 8vo, pp. 210. Paper wraps. Edges very faintly soiled, o/w a nice cipy. This was not issued in cloth. More
NY: Atheneum, 1961. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 177. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in little scuffed and lightly soiled, price clipped, dj. Four stories, her second book. More
NY: The Chatham Bookseller, 1978. Reprint. 8vo, pp. 177. Bound in cloth spine. A nice copy in little scufffed cloth. Inscribed by the author to poet William Jay Smith and his wife: "To Bill and Sonja | whose friendship sustains | Paule | March '77" A reprint of her second..... More
Washinton DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969. 8vo, pp. 100. Illustrated with photographs. Paper wraps. Cover slightly scuffed, o/w a VG tight copy. More
NY: Vanguard, (1961). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 448. Black cloth. Edges little soiled, but a VG tight copy in soiled and little chipped dj. More
NY: VAnguard, (1957). 8vo, pp. 212. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Long presentation on the half title by a previous owner. Newspaper review laid in. Edges somewhat soiled and spotted, o/w a VG tight copy in scuffed and chipped dj. This was Mayfield's first book. More
NY: Vanguard, (1958). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 156. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Owner's name and stamp on endpaper. A VG tight copy in chipped dj. More
Boston: New England Free Press, 1969. 4to, large sheet folded once; pp. 4. Reprinted from the August 1969 issue of The Movement. A nice copy. Labor actions at a Ford plant in Mahwah NJ. More
Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1994). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 133. Fine. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian, (1989). 4to, pp. 125. Artist biographies, bibliography. Paper wraps. With 68 color reproductions. Cover little scuffed and creased, owner's name on half-title, o/w a VG tight copy. More
Cambridge MA: Harvard, 2007. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 322. Notes, index. Illustrated iwth photographs and cartoons. As new in dj. The power, reach, and uses of this image in modern American politics and culture. More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1990). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 296. Paper over boards. A nice copy in slightly scuffed dj. A novel of the African-American experience in the US and Africa. More
Boston: Little, Brown, (1992). First printing. 8vo, pp. 194. Paper over boards. About as new in dj. More
Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh, (1988). 8vo, pp. 129. Green cloth. A nice copy in price-clipped and little soiled dj. Ten short stories; winner of the eighth Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction. More
NY: Vinking, (1990). First printing. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 690. Editor's presentation on title. With preface by John Edgar Wideman. Edges slightly soiled, o/w a fine copy in little scuffed dj. Works from over 50 Black American authors. More