All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou - 1986

New York: Random House, 1986. Like New. F/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line 24689753 (which then indicated a Random House First Edition/First Printing). The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($15.95) and Fine with praise for her books from James Baldwin, Shana Alexander and William McPherson on the back panel. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 208 pages plus biographical note. 5½ x 8½" tall.

In 1962, Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana. There, she joined a community of "Revolutionist Returnees" inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism — a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous and diaspora ethnic groups of African descent. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes is Angelou's lyrical and perceptive exploration of what it means to be an African American on the mother continent, where color no longer matters but where American-ness keeps asserting itself in ways both puzzling and heartbreaking.