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1998ref. 201583Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1998. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 238 pages. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and warmly inscribed by Johnson-Coleman on the half title page. A very nice copy as the recipient was a long time publisher representative. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1998ref. UWILELD00fpUniversidad Antonoma de Campeche 1998. Very Good. Williams-Beck Lorraine A. El Domino de Los Batabob: el area Puuc occidental campechana. Campeche Mexico: Universidad Antonoma de Campeche 1998. 182pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities and former owners' names on first page. Universidad Antonoma de Campeche paperback books
1974ref. UTYLMAG00fpMagic Mill 1974. Very Good. Tyler Lorraine Dilworth. The Magic of Wheat Cookery. Salt Lake City UT: Magic Mill 1974. xv 146pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Spiral-bound hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Magic Mill hardcover books
1989ref. 146380Minneapols MN and New York: Walker Art Center and Harry N. Abrams Inc 1989. Second printing. Softcover. Foreword by Caroline Hightower. Introduction by Mildred Friedman. Essays by Joseph Giovannini Neil Harris Estelle Jussim David Kunzle Maud Lavin Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller and Lorraine Wild. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations along with interview of these designers by Steven Heller: Saul Bass Aaron Burns Matthew Carter Ivan Chermayeff Muriel Cooper Milton Glaser Richard and Robert Greenberg April Grelman Tibor Kalman Alexander Liberman Leo Lionni Cipe Pineles Paul Rand Luis Silverstein and Bradbury Thompson. A tight and clean very near fine copy in wrappers. A very good reference. Walker Art Center and Harry N. Abrams, Inc unknown books
1964ref. 25599New York: Simon and Schuster 1964. Pictorial wrappers. Near Fine. A clean very well-preserved copy of the 1964 stated 1st paperback printing. Solid and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers boasting an iconic Danny Lyon photo on the front cover. Text by the great Lorriane Hansberry of "A Raisin in the Sun" fame. Quarto photos in fact the majority of them in the book by Danny Lyon others by major figures such as David Heath Robert Frank Roy De Carava Jill Krementz etc. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1974ref. 55613various but primarily New York: Signet / Grove / Anchor / Collier / Pocket et al. 1974. Overall very good. Small group of reading copies of works by Langston Hughes Nella Larsen Toni Morrison Lorraine Hansberry Martin Luther King Jr. and more - from the library of groundbreaking Black feminist Barbara Smith. Barbara Smith's life and career as a Black lesbian feminist activist has had an immense impact upon multiple fields. She was the author co-author or editor of many of the founding documents of Black feminism from the epochal 1977 Combahee River Collective Statement a work credited with largely establishing the intersectional theory Davis applies here; to TOWARD A BLACK FEMINIST CRITICISM 1977 "the earliest theoretical statement on black feminist criticism" McDowell; to HOME GIRLS: A BLACK FEMINIST ANTHOLOGY 1983 issued by her Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press co-founded with Beverly Smith Cherríe Moraga and Audre Lorde and which also republished THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK. Smith's papers were recently placed at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard Radcliffe Institute; the Schlesinger not acquiring duplicate titles these books come from Smith's remaining library. Titles are: STRENGTH TO LOVE by Martin Luther King Jr. 1964 first Pocket Books printing; LOOK OUT WHITEY! by Julius Lester 1969 Grove Evergreen printing; PASSING by Nella Larsen 1971 first Collier printing; BLACK POWER by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton 1960s Vintage Books printing; THE BLACK PANTHERS by Gene Marine 1969 first Signet printing; SELECTED POEMS by Langston Hughes 1974 Vintage Books edition with additional gift inscription to Smith; THE WAYS OF WHITE FOLKS by Langston Hughes 1971 Vintage Books edition; THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X 1966 fifth paperback printing; A RAISIN IN THE SUN / THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW by Lorraine Hansberry 1966 first Signet printing; and TO BE YOUNG GIFTED AND BLACK by Lorraine Hansberry 1970 first Signet printing. 10 vols. largely 7'' x 4.25'' each. Original color wrappers. From the library of Barbara Smith with her ink owner name or label to all volumes. Moderate edgewear soil. Some spine creases. Leaves toned. Signet / Grove / Anchor / Collier / Pocket [et al.] unknown books
2016ref. 42669New York: Green Zone Editions 2016. First Edition. Near fine. First printing chapbook of prose poems by Lupo. From an edition of 300 copies. Wraps. Small 8vo. Printed saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine. Trivial surface rubbing. Interior bright crisp and clean. Unpaginated. Green Zone Editions unknown books
1967ref. 54186New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1967. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket. First US edition of this early Donoso novel an "account of hopeless loves and wasted lives" via the life-experiences of an aging married couple. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original bright green cloth stamped in brown and gilt to front board and spine. In original price-clipped color pictorial jacket designed by George Salter. Green topstain. 8 180 pages. Trace wear. Ink stamp to front fly leaf. Bright. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1968ref. 54182London: The Bodley Head 1968. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. First UK edition of this early Donoso novel an "account of hopeless loves and wasted lives" via the life-experiences of an aging married couple. 7.75'' x 5''. Original deep red paper boards gilt-lettered spine. In original price-clipped color pictorial jacket by Yvonne Skargon. 6 178 pages. Jacket with light wear and soil. Book with top board slightly bowed couple faint spots of soil to textblock edges else sound. The Bodley Head unknown books
1961ref. 50706New York: Signet / New American Library 1961. First edition thus. Very good. Signet movie tie-in edition of the play that "changed American theater forever" NEW YORK TIMES. First produced on Broadway in 1959 and published by Random House the same year RAISIN IN THE SUN received major acclaim and soon opened on West End as well as being turned into a movie. The 1961 film featured the original Broadway cast starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee depicted on the front cover of this edition. 7.25'' x 4.25''. Original color photographic wrappers Signet D1901 cover price 50c. All edges stained red. Publisher's ads at rear. 126 2 pages. Light edgewear single short stray ink mark to rear wrapper. Leaves toned. Tight. Signet / New American Library unknown books
1990ref. 263499New Jersey: Triple Oaks Nursery 1990. Softcover. Very Good. Very good paperback. Top corner stapled. About 31 pages. Triple Oaks Nursery unknown books
2009ref. 609098New York: Caedmon 2009. Unbound. Fine. Compact discs. Six hours of recordings over five hours. Package and cardboard sleeves with light wear CDs appear unplayed. The collection includes A Raisin in the Sun To be Young Gifted and Black and Lorraine Hansberry Speaks Out. Caedmon unknown books
1946ref. acs303Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co. 1946. Octavo blue textured boards hardcover orange lettering illustrated endpapers 248 pp ads. Near Fine with darkened and brittling pages; in a Near Fine mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Mechanics being her first interest Peggy Parker is happiest when she is clad in her coveralls and at work inventing some gadget. Upon learning that she and her brother have inherited a rundown cotton plantation Peggy reluctantly leaves her work in an airplane factory to attempt to restore the Pine Island plantation to its former splendor. Peggy soon finds there is a great need for her genius as an inventor and as a business woman in the operation of the plantation. With the help of a handsome young lawyer Ted Marshall and her own gadgets Peggy outwits an unscrupulous group of men and saves the island estate for the Parker family. This is the story of a girl of today her quick thinking and ingenuity and her struggle for financial success and happiness. Whitman Publishing Co., 1946. hardcover books
1960ref. 587559Alpine Texas: Lilith Lorraine 1960. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. VII No. 2. Slim octavo. Glossy wrappers with modest wear and a diagonal crease on the unprinted lower wrap bottom corners a bit creased and curled very good and sound. Prints "The Relativity of Triteness" and the poem "Only Walls" by Lorraine in addition to much else including poetry updates on contests and other publications and information about "Avalon" another venture of Lorraine's. Lorraine a.k.a. Mary Maude Dunn Wright was a poet author of pulp fiction editor and journalist. An interesting Texas publication. Lilith Lorraine unknown books
1990ref. 467550New York: Garland Publishing Inc 1990. Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 168pp. Illustrated. Black cloth lettered in blue. Bound upside down else fine issued without dust jacket. Garland Publishing Inc hardcover books
1971ref. 437872Corona New York: A Colnoized sic Few 1971. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 40pp. Stapled illustrated glazed wrappers. Fine. Short anthology of poems by four black authors. A Colnoized [sic] Few unknown books
1996ref. 386194Atglen Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing 1996. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 176pp. Pictorial wrappers. Owner's name penned on title spine and edges lightly faded else very good. Signed by the author on the title. Schiffer Publishing unknown books
1972ref. 109052New York: Simon and Schuster 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Lorraine Bodger. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper with some soiling and rubbing. Advance Review copy with the slip laid in. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1970ref. 212147New York: New American Library 1970. Softcover. Good. Second printing. 271pp. Mass market paperback. Adapted by Robert Nemiroff. Introduction by James Baldwin. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Mass market paperback. Notations in ink on inside of front cover dampstain on bottom corners good in worn wrappers. New American Library unknown books
1964ref. 628361New York: Simon and Schuster 1964. Softcover. Near Fine. First printing wrappered issue. Small quarto. Spine a bit toned rubbing to the edges and scattered light wear on the rear wrap very good or better. A collection of photographs from the Civil Rights Movement prepared in cooperation with SNCC many of the photos taken by Danny Lyon. Simon and Schuster unknown books
2000ref. 163294N.p.: N.p. 2000. Writer's First Draft script for an unproduced episode of the 2000 television series. In this one season procedural a cop moves from Los Angeles to an eccentric town in Arizona after the mysterious death of his wife. In this episode a man's wife goes missing and he suspects she has been having an affair. Set in Manhattan Arizona. White titled self-wrappers noted as Writer's First Draft on the front wrapper dated June 26 2000 with credits for screenwriter Lorraine Vos. Title page integral with front wrapper. 29 leaves with last page of text numbered 29. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good with damp staining to the front wrapper bound with two gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1950ref. 161622N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage photograph of scientist Herbert Kalmus and his wife Eleanore King MGM producer Mike Todd and MGM head Louis Mayer and his wife Lorena Layson at a Christmas black tie event circa 1950s. Mimeo snipe on the verso. Kalmus and his ex-wife Natalie Kalmus pioneered the Technicolor process. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1983ref. 467760New York: New American Library 1983. Softcover. Very Good. First paperback edition. Trade paperback. Edited by Robert Nemiroff. Introduction by Julius Lester. Printed wrappers. Page edges a bit toned and a little rubbing on the wrappers very good or better. Includes three plays: Les Blancs The Drinking Gourd and What Use Are Flowers. New American Library unknown books
1946ref. CS00628Racine Washington: Whitman Publishing Company 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Meixner Hedwig Jo. Teal cloth with orange titles 8vo 248 pages illustrations throughout by Hedwig Jo Meixner; dust jacket now protected in mylar cover. A vintage copy of this intriguing Chicago mystery story. Whitman Publishing Company hardcover books
1775ref. 1417571London UK: John Boydell Engraver 1775. Pastoral landscape etching in mezzotint on wove paper with inscription along bottom edge with publishing details listed no. 103. Very good minus condition with foxing along bottom edge and some age toning concentrated around lower left corner. Etching measures 8.5 x 10.5in. and mat is 16.25 x 20in. Wrapped in clear plastic protection. English mezzotinter Richard Earlom was commissioned by John Boydell in 1774 to create the two volume collection "Liber Veritatis" etchings of all 200 drawings by artist Claude Lorrain. Praised for their faithful detailed reproduction of the originals they were recommended by drawing teachers to study technique particularly educational among English watercolor artists of the time. 1417571. Special Collections - Upstairs. John Boydell Engraver unknown books
