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Harlem YA Trilogy: THE FRIENDS, RUBY, and EDITH JACKSON. Rosa Guy
YA New Realism In Harlem

Harlem YA Trilogy: THE FRIENDS, RUBY, and EDITH JACKSON

By Rosa Guy
(1973); (1976); (1978)

First editions, two signed, following three Black teenage girls growing up in Harlem, including the first YA novel to narrate a lesbian relationship and, in another, the heroine's choice to get an abortion.

Price: $300.00

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AN EXCERPT FROM ARILLA SUN DOWN. Virginia Hamilton
The Marketing Power Of Award Winners

AN EXCERPT FROM ARILLA SUN DOWN

By Virginia Hamilton
(1976)

Promotional booklet issued by Greenwillow Press for Hamilton's book ARILLA SUN DOWN, her next book after becoming the first Black author to win the Newbery Medal with M.C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT.

Price: $100.00

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JUSTICE AND HER BROTHERS. Virginia Hamilton
African American YA Science Fiction

JUSTICE AND HER BROTHERS

By Virginia Hamilton
(1978)

First edition, first printing, of this science fiction novel about a Black girl in Ohio and her brothers who learn that they have psychic powers.

Price: $100.00

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WILLIE BEA AND THE TIME THE MARTIANS LANDED. Virginia Hamilton
War Of The Worlds Meets Little Willie Bea

WILLIE BEA AND THE TIME THE MARTIANS LANDED

By Virginia Hamilton
(1983)

First edition, first printing, recounting one girl's response to Orson Welles's famous broadcast, by the celebrated writer whose book M.C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT was the first by a Black author to win the Newbery Medal.

Price: $45.00

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HAVE A HAPPY. Mildred Pitts Walter, Carole Byard, Clara Villarosa
From A Legendary Black Bookstore

HAVE A HAPPY...

By Mildred Pitts Walter, illustrated by Carole Byard
(1989)

Signed first printing of this novel of Kwanzaa holiday cheer, with bookstore label from the Denver-based African American bookstore Hue-Man Experience on rear panel.

Price: $200.00

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