Boston, MA: Stratford Company, 1925. [8],71pp. 12mo. Boards, paper labels. Boards rather soiled, ink ownership inscription on front pastedown, some spotting in the fore-margins of the last few leaves, overall damp ripple (but not stain) to textblock. Just a sound, serviceable copy. First edition of the first book by the.....
![Set of Eight Studio Lobby Cards for:] DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS. Walter Mosley, Carl Franklin,...](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT68333.jpg?v=1593712419)
[Culver City]: Columbia Tristar, [1995]. Eight 11 x 14" color pictorial lobby cards. Fine. A complete set of lobby cards for the American neo-noir film based on Walter Mosley's novel. The screenplay was written and directed with elegant control by Carl Franklin, with Mosley as an associate producer, and ably.....
New York & London: Norton, [ 1990]. Cloth and boards. First edition, first novel, signed by the author on the title. Fine in fine dust jacket (priced $18.95).
New York & London: Norton, [ 1990]. Cloth and boards. First edition, first novel. Fine in fine dust jacket (priced $18.95).
New York & London: Norton, [ 1996]. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in about fine dust jacket.
New York & London: Norton, [ 1991]. Cloth and boards. First edition, second novel, signed by the author on the title. Fine in fine dust jacket.
New York [etc]: McGraw-Hill, [1971]. Gilt cloth. First edition of the author's outstanding second book. Epilogue highlighted in margin in yellow marker and noted in an unknown hand: "To Be Read By Albert Murray," top edge flecked, otherwise a good, bright copy, in moestly used dust jacket with ink date.....
![MUSIC OF OUR LAND AND OUR TRADITIONAL DANCES NIGERIA TODAY 4 [wrapper title]. Nigeria](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT74834.jpg?v=1593712546)
[Lagos: Federal Ministry of Information, 1966]. 34pp. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Photographs. Near fine. Published in the occasion of the Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar. This is the French language version.
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[Lagos: Federal Ministry of Information, 1966]. 38pp. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Photographs. Near fine. Published in the occasion of the Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar. This is the French language version.
New York: Arcade Publishing / Little, Brown & Co., [1991]. Quarto. Cloth and boards. Extensively illustrated with photographs. Top edge and inner top edge of dust jacket dust speckled, otherwise close to fine in dust jacket. First edition. Affectionately inscribed by the author to two close friends and academic colleagues.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Advance reading copy from uncorrected proofs of the first edition. Fine with promotional material laid in. Superb airplane reading.
New York: Dial Press, 1962. Cloth textured boards. Text block tanned, but a sound copy in rather worn example of the garish pictorial dust jacket (some chips and some overall damp marking). First edition of this element in the sequence of the author's trashy, exploitative novels set on the fictional.....
San Francisco: Poetry for the People, 1979. Small quarto. Pictorial wrappers. About fine. First edition of this very early collection by the Jamaican-born poet, novelist, and educator, published the year she moved to the Bay area and began work on her MA.
Boston: Houghton, 1956. Decorated cloth. Photographs. First U.S. edition, translated by Desmond Flower, edited by A.A. Gurwitch, and with an introduction by Louis Armstrong. Small bookplate, otherwise a nice, tight copy, in lightly edge used dust jacket.
New York: Scribner, [ 1971]. Gilt cloth. Large octavo. Photographs. First U.S. edition (translation uncredited). Fine in dust jacket.
![Vintage Studio Publicity One Sheet Poster for:] THE LEARNING TREE. Gordon Parks, writer and director](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT70917.jpg?v=1593712472)
[Burbank]: Warner Bros. - Seven Arts, 1969. Vintage original 41 x 27" (104 x 69") highly pictorial one sheet poster, folded as issued, light rub at one fold edge, minute breaks at a couple of fold junctions, else near fine. A highly pictorial and evocative one sheet issued to promote.....
New York: Creative Age Press, 1942. Quarto. Cloth, pictorial onlay. Frontis portrait. Photographs. Ink ownership signature on pastedown, binding a trifle bowed, with small abrasion at toe of lower joint; a good,sound copy, in worn dust jacket with several chips and a long, creased tear mended on the verso. First.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. Cloth. First edition. Edges darkened, crown of spine slightly worn, but a good copy in moderately used dust jacket with shallow chipping to the spine ends and corners.
[ Paris]: Flammarion, [ 1930]. Pictorial wrappers. First edition, ordinary issue, S.P. copy with perforated stamp. Front blank torn away, a bit tanned and worn; still, a sound reading copy of the prominent feminist/radical's survey of race relations in the U.S. (Jim Crowe, Lynch law, etc).
New York: Harcourt, [ 1984]. Cloth and boards. First edition of the author's second original novel. Remainder stripe at lower edge, otherwise about fine in dust jacket.
Berkeley: Serendipity Books, 2008. [16]pp. Small octavo. Sewn blindstamped wrappers with diecut holes. Woodcut frontis. Gatefold center sheet. Folded facsimile typescript letter laid in back, as issued. Fine. First edition in book form. One of 140 regular (unsigned) copies from a total edition of 150 copies printed by Alastair Johnston.....
Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1963. Printed wrappers. First edition in this format, printed in an unspecified edition for private distribution. Fine.
Atlanta, GA. First Quarter 1940 through Second Quarter 1954. I:1-4; II:2-4; V:2; VI:1,2,4; VII:1,2; IX:1,3,4; X:3; XI:2,3; XII:1,2,4; XIII:1-4; XIV:1-4; and XV:2. Thirty-one issues (of fifty-eight in sequence). Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Occasional plates and photographs. Wrappers a bit frayed at overlap edges, frequent staple rust, five spines show surface.....
Boston: Cupples, Upham & Co. / The Corner Bookstore, 1884. viii,503pp. Octavo. Plum-brown cloth, decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. Spine a shade sunned, otherwise very good or slightly better. First edition, second issue, comprised of the sheets from the Concord, NH, 1883 Clague, Wegman, Schlicht & Co. printing, equipped.....
New York: Farrar, [ 1992]. Cloth and boards. First edition of the author's first book. Fine in dust jacket.
