Recent Arrivals from Blackbird Infoshop

Mass market paperback. 256pp. Fair condition, wear and age-toning to pages, creasing to spine, but pages are not brittle to the touch - some tearing towards top of front cover. Stated first printing, August 1970. Signed twice - to "June" on title page by editor Toni Cade Bambara and dated 4/6/95, and signed by contributor Nikki Giovanni 2/17/96, whose ownership… Read more about this item

Stapled wraps, 101pp. First edition, first printing in gorgeous wraps with only a tiny blemish to bottom of Liz Cromwell's One Out of Many, which is the first anthology of Afro-Canadian women's writing and the first book publication of Dionne Brand's work. As George Elliot Clarke writes "Given the reluctance of mainstream Canadian publishers to handle black writers (until recently),… Read more about this item

343pp. First printing in dustjacket. Harper & Row, New York. 1971. A gorgeous first printing of historian George Fredrickson's Black Image in the White Mind, a comprehensive study of white intellectuals' understanding of Afro-American life, culture and politics, shortlisted for the Pulitzer and National Book Award. A scarce title in this condition and first printing.

Hardcover. 429pp. First printing, near fine. Brown cloth with embossed red image of Seale gagged and bound in the courtroom during the Chicago 8 Trial.A gorgeous copy of Bobby Seale's narration of the Black Panther Party's origins and his relationship with Huey P Newton. Written as Seale was on trial as part of the Panther 14 in New Haven and… Read more about this item

A gorgeous first edition, first printing of the Englsih translation by Mat Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed of Palestinian novelist and poet Ibrahim Nasrallah's first novel, Prairies of Fever. Black cloth boards and silver gilt lettering in glossy dustjacket, near fine. Full number line. Listed by the Guardian as one of the 10 most important novels of the Arab world, the… Read more about this item

First edition, second printing stated on jacket, $3.95 price intact. Henry Regnery, 1953. Red cloth with black lettering, some agewear to top of boards and spine. Black dust jacket with white lettering, some chipping to dust jacket at top of spine and bottom front. Signed "Cordially, Alfred Lilienthal", on front free endpaper. Some foxing to endpapers. Spine tight and textblock… Read more about this item

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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