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New York:: Grove Weidenfeld,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. Journalist and poet's first novel - a coming-of-age story set in the South in the year school integration shook the little town of Turner, Virginia. 297 pp.

New York:: Norton,, 1993.. Hardcover first edition -. F/F.. First printing. Her second book.

New York:: Doubleday,, (1999). First edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Fifth novel by this black - and gay - author. An exploration of the bonds of friendship and love, and learning to explore your own dreams. 353 pp. .

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, 1973.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A classic novel about what it means to be a black American - sometimes brutally funny, other times starkly real - as he "sets forth his encounters with poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots, frustrated rage -and a variety of ways of loving." The third and last novel by this writer, whom Ishmael Reed notably described as "Richard Pryor before there was a Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor on paper." 215 pp.

New York:: Harcourt Brace & Company,, 1971.. Near fine in illustrated black wrappers.. First thus. Slightly oversized trade paperback format. 280 pgs. Includes selections on the slave trade through the Black Power movement.

New York:: Hyperion Press,, (1996.). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Author's second novel - continues the adventures of Stevie, exploring her new turf - San Francisco in the 70's. 332 pp.

New York:: Hyperion Press,, (1996). SIGNED hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. 4th printing. Author's second novel - continues the adventures of Stevie, exploring her new turf - San Francisco in the 70's. INSCRIBED on the title page. 324 pp.

New York:: Hyperion Press,, 1996.. SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers, as issued.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Author's second novel - continues the adventures of Stevie, exploring her new turf - San Francisco in the 70's. SIGNED on title page.

New York:: Hyperion Press,, (1996). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dust jacket.. First printing. Author's second novel - continues the adventures of Stevie, exploring her new turf - San Francisco in the 70's. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp.

New York:: Hyperion Press,, 1996.. SIGNED first edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Author's second novel - continues the adventures of Stevie, exploring her new turf - San Francisco in the 70's. SIGNED by the author.

New York:: Hyperion Press,, (1996.). Very good... Trade paperback. Author's second novel - continues the adventures of Stevie, exploring her new turf - San Francisco in the 70's. 324 pp.

New York:: Avon,, 1999.. Very good. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Romantic novel by this African American mystery writer.

New York:: Monarch Press / Simon & Schuster,, (1987). First edition -. Very near fine in stapled red and white wrappers (some rubbing to the covers) . First printing, a trade paperback original. Looks at Walker's life, and the influences on her work, especially her discovery of the novels of Zora Neale Hurston. While this focuses on Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning The Color Purple, it also discusses her work both before and after its publication. Bibliography, 121 pp. 

Minneapolis:: Milkweed Editions,, 1997.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. The fifth book by this Granta author. SIGNED on the title page.

Minneapolis:: Milkweed Editions,, 1997.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The fifth book by this Granta author.

Minneapolis:: Milkweed Editions,, 1997.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. The fifth book by this Granta author.

New York:: Harper Collins / Amistad,, (2006.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in very good+ dust jacket (remainder line, 2 short closed tears to dj.). First printing. Collection of sixteen powerful short stories by this award-winning writer; his third book and second collection of short fiction (the first, Lost in the City, which was also set in Washington, D.C., won the PEN-Hemingway award in 1992 and the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his only novel to date - The Known World -won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003. Jones has also received a MacArthur fellowship. 399 pp.

New York:: Random House, , (1986). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, 2 short closed tears, creasing to dj flaps, spot where color has bled from cover to inside of dj). First printing. The fifth and final volume in Angelou's autobiography - in this she recounts how she joins a 'colony' of Black American expats in Ghana only to discover that you can't go home again. 208 pp.

New York:: Arcade Publishing,, (1994.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. Novel set in the 1960's - the story of a charismatic civil rights leader, whose life ends in assassination. 228 pp.

New York:: Arcade Publishing,, (1994.). Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall a tight and clean copy.. First printing. Novel set in the 1960's - the story of a charismatic civil rights leader, whose life ends in assassination. 228 pp.