THE FALL OF THE TOWERS
(1970)
First edition thus, the first collected edition of three of Delany's earliest novels: CAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, THE TOWERS OF TORON, and CITY OF A THOUSAND SUNS.
African American author
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STREETLETHAL
(1983)
Signed first edition of Barnes's SF noir novel, the first in a trilogy starring Black martial artist Aubry Knight.
NOVA
(1969)
First paperback edition of Delany's mythic cyborg space opera, nominated for a Hugo Award and rich with allusions to Melville's MOBY DICK, Arthurian legend, and Tarot lore.
IMARO
(1981)
Scarce first edition of Saunders's groundbreaking first novel, set in a heavily researched alternate Africa and starring one of the first Black heroes in the grimly Eurocentric genre of contemporary sword & sorcery.
BLIND MAN WITH A PISTOL
(1969)
First UK edition of Himes's eighth Harlem Detective novel, the last to be published during his lifetime.
CAUGHT IN A TRAP
(1999)
First edition, paperback original, of the Black romantic suspense novel set on Long Island, featuring a heroine who falls in love while in hiding from her abusive husband.
WHEN DEATH COMES STEALING
(1994)
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.
CITY OF A THOUSAND SUNS
(1965)
First edition, paperback original, of this post-apocalyptic science fiction novel of the far future, in which war and technology are weaponised for control.
DHALGREN
(1975)
First edition, paperback original, of the ULYSSES of the United States, the MOBY DICK of science fiction, the DHALGREN of DHALGRENS.
THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION
(1967)
First edition, paperback original, of this Nebula Award-winning science fiction novel combining the physics of Einstein, the philosophy of Godel, and the mythology of Orpheus.
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