Recent Arrivals from Blackbird Infoshop
Recent Arrivals from Blackbird Infoshop
![Citizen: An American Lyric](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/013/047/1601047013.0.m.jpg)
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Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- 16th printing
- Published
- 2014
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$246.20
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A very good+ signed copy of Claudia Rankine's Citizen, signed "Love, Claudia" with a warm inscription on title page, possible association copy. VG+ in wraps. Item Price
NZ$246.20
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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
by Peter Kropotkin
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First, revised and cheaper printing, 1904.
- Published
- 1904
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$147.72
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William Heinemann, 1904. Clean and tight texxt, agewear to inside front cover, some staining to blue cloth boards. Gilt titles still boldly visible. Book is in good condition with noteable agewear. Biinding tight but top of front board beginning to separate from spine. Revised and Cheaper Edition. Hardback. No DJ Item Price
NZ$147.72
![If There Were Anywhere but Desert: The Collected Poems of Edmond Jabes](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/263/041/1601041263.0.m.jpg)
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If There Were Anywhere but Desert: The Collected Poems of Edmond Jabes
by Edmond Jabes; translation by Keith Waldrop
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Published
- 1988
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$164.13
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A gorgeous first printing of Edmond Jabes collected poems, If There Were Anywhere but Desert, introduced by Robert Duncan and translated by Keith Waldrop. French and English text side by side, in cream boards with black lettering, and gorgeous not price clipped DJ, with $16.95 price intact. Open chip to exterior rear of dustjacket, but still an appealing, VG+ copy.… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$164.13
![The New Black](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/840/034/1601034840.0.m.jpg)
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The New Black
by Evie Shockley
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 2011
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780819571403
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$82.06
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Near fine hardcover copy in gorgeous wraps, of Evie Shockley's poetic and lyrical reflections on blackness and being. Warmly signed and inscribed by Shockley on the half title. Item Price
NZ$82.06
![China's New Democracy](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/044/031/1601031044.0.m.jpg)
China's New Democracy
by Mao Tse Tung and Earl Browder
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Published
- 1945
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$369.29
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New York: New Century Publishers, 1945. Second printing. Wraps, tear of jacket at spine upwards but spine still tight and jacket intact, just requires careful handling. Scarce first English translation, second printing of 5000 copies of Mao's 1940 statemenent of the platform of the Chinese Communist party. In green and yellow wraps, with frontispiece drawing of Mao by Hugh Gellert.… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$369.29
![I Seem to Be a Verb](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/499/024/1601024499.0.m.jpg)
I Seem to Be a Verb
by R Buckminster Fuller, Quentin Fiore and Jerome Agel
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First printing.
- Published
- 1970
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$131.30
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First printing Bantam mass market, of R Buckminster Fuller's I Seem to be a Verb, written with Jerome Agel and profusely illustrated with designs by Quentin Fiore. Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada. Covers stained (see photos) but binding tight and pages clean and gorgeous. Item Price
NZ$131.30
![Matsushima](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/862/022/1601022862.0.m.jpg)
Matsushima
by Gerald Vizenor
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First printing
- Published
- 1984
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$123.10
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Minneapolis, Minnesota: Nodin Press, 1984. Softcover. Very good+ in wraps, sunning and foxing to wrap exterior. First edition, first printing of Anishnaabe author, critic and poet Gerald Vizenor's sixth, and most lauded and scarce collection of haiku. Stunning calligraphy by Haruko Isobe. Item Price
NZ$123.10
![The Thaw](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/152/021/1601021152.0.m.0.jpg)
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The Thaw
by Ilya Ehrenburg; Russell Kirk
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition; first printing
- Published
- 1955
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$123.10
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A first US edition, first printing of Ukranian writer and revolutionary Ilya Ehrenburg's novel of the post-Stalin era of liberalization in the Soviet Union. VG, in gorgeous dustjacket but sunned and faded blue paper covered boards. Some chipping and rubbing to top of dustjacket, with $3.50 price intact. With a supplement, the Death of Art by Russell Kirk. Item Price
NZ$123.10
![We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/658/020/1601020658.0.m.jpg)
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We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans
by Sonia Sanchez, ed., with contributions from Toni Cade Bambara, Ted Joans, Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka,
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Published
- 1973
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$328.26
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A first edition, first printing of Sonia Sanchez' scarce anthology of Black American fiction, centering Black arts luminaries including John Henrik Clarke, Toni Cade Bambara, Ted Joans, Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Sam Greelea, Alice Walker, Dudley Randall and more. Warmly inscribed in 1979 by Sonia Sanchez on front endpaper. small bookstore stamp inside. Fair condition, cover bright, pages clean, and… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$328.26
![My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/374/019/1601019374.0.m.jpg)
My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
by Kara Walker
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First edition; first printing
- Published
- 2007
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$131.30
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A gorgeous first printing of the Walker Arts Center's retrospective of Kara Walker's work. Missing wraparound band. No DJ as issued. Gorgeously illustrated in black and white and color. Catalog of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minn., Minnesota, Feb. 17-May 13, 2007; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY , Nov. 11, 2007-Feb. 3, 2008; UCLA Hammer Museum,… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$131.30
![Camera Lucida](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/831/018/1601018831.0.m.jpg)
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Camera Lucida
by Roland Barthes
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Published
- 1981
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$98.48
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An appealing first US edition, first printing of Barthes' seminal meditation on photography and the sign, Camera Lucida. In rubbed and somewhat edgeworn and price clipped dustjacket, and gorgeous black boards with gilt titling and white spine, some sunning to top of boards. DJ in archival mylar. Binding tight, spine straight and pages crisp and unmarked. 119pp. Item Price
NZ$98.48
![His Day is Marching on: A Memoir of W.E.B. Du Bois](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/068/018/1601018068.0.m.jpg)
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His Day is Marching on: A Memoir of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Shirley Graham Du Bois
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Edition
- First edition; first printing
- Published
- 1971
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$123.10
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Hardcover. Stated first edition. Condition: Very Good in VG- DJ, DJ rubbed with a small open tear to bottom front left corner. Some foxing to interior front and back covers, pages crisp and unmarked. 1st Edition. Appendices. Index. 384pp. Black cloth spine with bright gilt title and gorgeous brown marbled cloth over boards. A stunning biography of Du Bois' years… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$123.10
![Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/561/015/1601015561.0.m.jpg)
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
by Stokely Carmichael
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Published
- 1971
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$123.10
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First printing of the scarce Vintage mass market edition of Stokely Carmichael's collected speeches and writings; released in simultaneous hardcover and mass market edited by Ethel N. Minor under Toni Morrison's editorship at Random House. Gorgeous copy, no creasing, pages crisp and unmarked, small remainder stamp to bottom, with the iconic cover of Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture hoisting a rifle. 227pp.… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$123.10
![Johnny Got His Gun](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/517/365/1600365517.0.m.jpg)
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition, first printing.
- Published
- 1939
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$984.78
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First edition/ First Printing. J.B. Lippincott Co, 1939. 309pps. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with bold black titling, little fading or wear to covers, without dustjacket. Spine tight. No ownership marks or interior marks, no foxing, pages gorgeous, but some wear to front and back inside covers where dustjacket was previously affixed, with a faint doubling of the jacket panel… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$984.78
![Selections from the Prison Notebooks](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/252/962/1599962252.0.m.jpg)
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1971
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$246.20
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A first printing of the first English translation of communist intellectual Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks, written by the imprisoned Italian communist leader between 1929 and 1935. Edited, selected and translated by Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith. Includes most of Gramsci's major political essays, including "The Modern Prince" and "The Philosophy of Praxis." 1971 first printing in a gorgeous dustjacket… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$246.20
![The Golden Notebook](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/271/958/1599958271.0.m.jpg)
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The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First US edition, first printing.
- Published
- 1962
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$328.26
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A gorgeous first US edition of Lessing's seminal feminist novel about writer Anna Wulf and her disillusionment with the Communist Party. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962 First American edition. $5.95 to unclipped dust jacket. In gorgeous mustard yellow boards with black titling and a very good dustjacket with one small marking and some agewear. Red textblock. First American Edition.… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$328.26
![The God of Small Things](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/623/952/1599952623.0.m.jpg)
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The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First edition; first printing.
- Published
- 1997
- ISBN
- 9780674945739
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Kingston, New York, USA
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NZ$344.67
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A gorgeous VG+ first printing of the first American edition of Arundhati Roy's seminal first novel, the God of Small Things, winner of the Booker Prize. Warmly inscribed on the half-title by Roy "For Stefanos, with love, Arundhati Roy." 321 pp. Octavo. Gorgeous embossed grey paper-covered boards with green cloth spine with silver gilt titling. Light staining to top of… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$344.67