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Killing Color
Published by Calyx Books, Corvallis, OR, 1992
ISBN 10: 093497117XISBN 13: 9780934971171
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 107 pages. First edition, first printing. Cover art by Jody Kim. Her first book, a collection of 11 stories. Fine book in wrappers. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M000079
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Without Magnolias
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1949
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 274 pages. First edition, first printing. His fourth book and winner of the George Washington Carver Award in 1948. The story of a Negro family in a small Florida town who are trying to move up the economic and social ladder. Fine book with no dust jacket. A very nice copy!.
Seller Inventory # M0000196
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Thereafter Johnnie
Published by Random House, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0394576446ISBN 13: 9780394576442
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 243 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Susan Shapiro, Her first book. Dust jacket blurbs by Gloria Naylor, Carlos Fuentes & Henry Gates. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M0000309
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Clarise Cumberbatch Want to Go Home
Published by Ticknor & Fields, NewYork, 1987
ISBN 10: 0899194036ISBN 13: 9780899194035
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 201 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Margaret Hewitt. The first book from this Guyana born writer. The story of a woman from Guyana who lives in New York and tries to bring a man back home as a husband. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M0000339
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Breathing Room
Published by Pocket Books, New York, 2001
ISBN 10: 0671028421ISBN 13: 9780671028428
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Elam's debut novel. Events cause the close friendship between two women to begin to unravel. Jacket illustration by Eldzier Cortor. Fine in fine dustjacket.
Seller Inventory # 6320
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For the Body
Published by Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1978
ISBN 10: 0807104647ISBN 13: 9780807104644
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 75 pages. First edition, first printing. Her first book. She was nominated for the National Book Award. Fine book except for a touch of rubbing to the spine edges in wrappers. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # 739765010
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Love
Published by Babcock & Koontz, Derry, NH, 1988
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Signed
Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 20 pages. First edition, first printing. One (126) of 200 limited edition, signed by Williams on a special page at the end of the book. Illustrated by Gaylord Schanilec. Excerpt from an as-yet unpublished novel. Some Blacks were in the Nazi prison at Dachau, as Williams discovered on a visit there in 1966. Further research led him to write a story about them. As new book without dust jacket as issued in wrappers. A beautiful copy!. Signed by Author(s).
Seller Inventory # 1293386621
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Even the Stars Look Lonesome
Published by Random House, New York, 1997
ISBN 10: 0375500316ISBN 13: 9780375500312
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 145 pages. First edition, first printing. Her second book of essays dealing with a wide range of topics in 20 short pieces. As new book in a like dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M000077
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A Different Kind of Christmas
Published by Doubleday, New York, 1988
ISBN 10: 0385260431ISBN 13: 9780385260435
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 101 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by David Frampton. His third book about a white son of a plantation owner and a black slave working together to help slaves escape by the Underground Railroad on Christmas Eve 1855. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M0000244
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The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas
Published by Little Brown, Boston, 1992
ISBN 10: 0316560561ISBN 13: 9780316560566
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 194 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Jerry Pinckney. His 3rd book and 2nd collection of short stories. He was a winner of the Drue Heinz prize for literature. As new book in a like dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M000031
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Countee Cullen and the Negro Renaissance
Published by Dodd Mead, New York, 1966
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 213 pages. First edition, second printing. Biography of Cullen with emphasis on the 20's & 30's. Includes: Photographs, Bibliography & an Index. Fine book in a near fine dust with a couple of small chips to the corners. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M0000208
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Way Past Cool
Published by Farrar Straus & Girouix, New York, 1992
ISBN 10: 0374286698ISBN 13: 9780374286699
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 310 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Cynthia Krupat. His third book and first by a national publisher. He won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for short story book, Rats in the Trees. The story of Oakland's street gangs and the black kids who are members. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M0000333
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April & June
Published by Shameless Hussey Press, Berkeley, CA, 1987
ISBN 10: 0915288567ISBN 13: 9780915288564
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Miles, Glen (illustrator). 1st Edition. 43 pages. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Glenn Miles. Fine book with the spine very slightly faded in wrappers. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # 80335697
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Lucy
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0374194343ISBN 13: 9780374194345
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Kincaid's fourth book. West Indies teenage girl comes to North America to work as an au pair for a family with a few issues. Fine in fine dustjacket.
Seller Inventory # 6317
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The Darker Face of the Earth
Published by Story Line Press, Brownsville, OR, 1994
ISBN 10: 0934257744ISBN 13: 9780934257749
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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First Edition Signed
Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 140 pages. First edition, first printing. One of 4,000 copies issued concurrently with a limited hard cover edition of 276. Signed by Dove on the title page. The story of Oedipus, taking place on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina. As new book in wrappers. A beautiful copy!. Signed by Author(s).
Seller Inventory # M000069
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Generations
Published by Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 1971
ISBN 10: 0807064149ISBN 13: 9780807064146
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 81 pages. First edition, first printing. Includes photographs. Preface by Ruth Whitman. His first regularly published book of poetry. The title poem was published earlier in paperback in 1966. He was Boston Poet Laureate between 2008 and 2013. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M0000305
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Homecookin'
Published by Howard University Press, Washington, DC, 1974
ISBN 10: 0882580213ISBN 13: 9780882580210
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 101 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Roy E. LaGrone. First book of five plays by this African-American who was playwright in residence at Howard University. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with slight rubbing to corners. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # 1330971690
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Published by Atheneum, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0689116535ISBN 13: 9780689116537
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 169 pages. First edition, first printing. His first book of short stories. Dust jacket design by Paula Heisen. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # 1406292274
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A Piece of Mine
Published by Wild Trees Press, Navarro, CA, 1984
ISBN 10: 0931125006ISBN 13: 9780931125003
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 124 pages. First edition, first printing. Cover design by Sarah Levin. Foreword by Alice Walker. Her first book, 12 short stories. Fine book in wrappers. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # 937729473000043
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Music From Home
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 1976
ISBN 10: 080930774XISBN 13: 9780809307746
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 100 pages. First edition, first printing. Her second book of poetry. First in the Sagittarius Poetry Series. Preface by John Gardner. Introduction by Knute Skinner. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # 17500988
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Pool Of Tears
Published by St. Martin's Press, New York, 1977
ISBN 10: 0312630085ISBN 13: 9780312630089
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 220 pages. First American edition, first printing. Dust jacket photograph by Richard Davies. His fourth book. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # 374837293899
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My Amputations
Published by Fiction Collective, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0914590960ISBN 13: 9780914590965
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 205 pages. First edition, first printing. Cover art by Major. Signed by Major on the publisher's tipped-in leaf. Winner of the 1986 Western States Book Award. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!. Signed by Author(s).
Seller Inventory # M000030
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Shannon
Published by Little Brown, Boston, 1981
ISBN 10: 0316692492ISBN 13: 9780316692496
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 402 pages. First edition, first printing. A story set in New York early in the 20th century about a young woman who marries a poor man instead of a richer one. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M000036
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Linden Hills
Published by Ticknor & Fields, New York, 1985
ISBN 10: 0899193579ISBN 13: 9780899193571
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 304 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Chris Van Allsburg. Second novel by the author of The Women of Brewster Place. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M0000357
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Look What They Done to My Song
Published by Random House, New York, 1974
ISBN 10: 0394488180ISBN 13: 9780394488189
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 251 pages. First edition, first printing. His first book. Dust jacket art by David Stone Martin. A story about jazz musicians. Errata slip for copyright page. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # 1126136384
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Symptoms & Madness
Published by Corinth Books, New York, 1971
ISBN 10: 0870910655ISBN 13: 9780870910654
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 76 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Joan Wilentz. His sixth book of poetry. One of 1,000 issued. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # 740268574
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The Meaning of Our Numbers
Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1972
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 25 pages. First edition, first printing. One of a limited edition issued as a New Years greeting to friends of the author and publisher. It is an excerpt from his forthcoming book "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Fine book without dust jacket as issued. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # 248865005
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Who Is Angelina?
Published by Holt Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1975
ISBN 10: 0030122716ISBN 13: 9780030122712
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 280 pages. First edition, first printing. His second novel and fourth book. The story of a young educated black woman as she tries to get her life in order in the 1960's. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # M000057
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A Bio-Bibliography of Countee P. Cullen, 1903-1946
Published by Greenwood Publishers, 1971
ISBN 10: 0837133254ISBN 13: 9780837133256
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 134 pages. First edition, first printing. Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies. Foreword by Don M. Wolfe. Fine book with no dust jacket as issued. A beautiful copy!.
Seller Inventory # 18276599982
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A Woman Called Fancy
Published by The Dial Press, New York, 1951
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 340 pages. First edition, first printing. His sixth book. The story of a poor young woman who is forced to marry an older wealthy man to pay off her father's debts in 1880 Georgia. Near fine book in a very good dust jacket with a large (1/2" by 2") chip to the top of the front cover. General rubbing to the edges and corners. A very nice copy!.
Seller Inventory # M0000341
