APRIL BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL APRIL 1-7 1973 / "PEOPLE GOT TO BE FREE"
Scarce program of exhibits and performances from the 1973 April Black Arts Festival organized by the Black Student Union of West Chester State College.
Scarce program of exhibits and performances from the 1973 April Black Arts Festival organized by the Black Student Union of West Chester State College.
Inscribed first edition of this anthology from the Watts Writers Workshop, including Harry Dolan, Leumas Sirrah, Harley Mims, and James Thomas Jackson.
Inscribed first printing, as association copy, of this political thriller that follows a Black congressman as he becomes increasingly wrapped up in a secessionist Black nationalist group – by noted journalist and Tuskegee airman Chuck Stone.
First UK edition of Styron's Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel, based on the 1831 uprising led by enslaved Virginian Nat Turner.
First edition – with cover design by Aaron Douglas – of this foundational Harlem Renaissance work, the story of Emma Lou, a dark-skinned Black woman who struggles to come to terms with the colorism she experiences inside and outside her community.
First edition of Tidyman's famous novel, with a rare, long, and affectionate inscription from the author to longtime DETROIT NEWS columnist Bill Noble.
First edition of Tillman's scarce novel, a semi-autobiographical story of heartbreak and resilience starring a Black polio survivor and wheelchair user, a sequel to the author's previous LIFE ON WHEELS.
Inscribed first edition in English of this "elegiac reminiscence" (NEW YORK TIMES) of a midwestern Black childhood — inscribed to "To / Gene / My Buddy / and right / arm,"; likely his producer, Gene Wolsk.
Signed first printing of this novel exploring many of the same themes as THE COLOR PURPLE, especially love after trauma and universal sisterhood.
Signed first printing of this epic novel of love and relationships across centuries, including appearances of two characters from THE COLOR PURPLE.
First printing of this US epic, based on the true life story of the author's grandmother, a formerly enslaved woman who lived from the antebellum period through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
First printing of Wesley's first mystery novel, introducing Black PI Tamara Hale, who must contend against the racism of the police to solve a string of murders of young Black men.
Inscribed first edition of Whitehead's sixth novel, winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
Inscribed first printing of this dramatic tale of New York's jazz underworld by the acclaimed author of (six years later) THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM.
Inscribed first printing of this tense murder mystery, following the only Black woman member of a police department who must contend with the racism of her colleagues while trying to find her boyfriend's killer.