![Songs from Ragged Streets [INSCRIBED]. F. J. BRYANT Jr.](/pictures/thumb/02417.jpg?v=1461769622)
Greenfield Center: The Greenfield Review Press, 1974. First edition. Original, staplebound wrappers; 39, [1] pp.; illus. INSCRIBED by the author in the inside corner of the front wrapper. Some dampstaining near spine, only visible to title page and terminal leaf; some grazing to front wrapper. Good+. Uncommon signed. More
![Four Black Poets: Coleman, Jackson, Mbembe, Welburn [spine title]. Horace COLEMAN, Angela JACKSON, MBEMBE, Ron WELBURN.](/pictures/thumb/02416.jpg?v=1461769622)
Kansas City: BkMk, [1977]. First edition. Octavo, perfectbound; 84 pp. Scarce collection of poetry from these four African-American poets. A Very Good+ copy with some toning to white wrappers. More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1968. Octavo. Pictorial brown cloth; xiv, 106 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. Originally published in 1940, this book collects 25 poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Negro dialect with a biographical sketch by Bertha Rodgers and illustrations by Erick Berry. A Near Fine copy of... More
Chicago: Third World Press, 1968. First edition. Staplebound Wraps. Octavo (21 cm). Saddle-stapled, glossy wrappers with Black Power montage to front wrapper; 31 pp. "we must under stand that our enemy is white ness and every thing that white stands for. white Lies. white evil. white oppression. white Death." Soon... More
![Taylor Mead on Amphetamine and in Europe: Excerpts from the Anonymous Diary of a New York Youth, Volume 3 [INSCRIBED]. Taylor MEAD.](/pictures/thumb/03082.jpg?v=1471794139)
New York: Boss Books, 1968. First edition. Octavo. Perfect-bound paperback with photo-illustrated wrappers; 251 pp. Mead has INSCRIBED the front endpaper to G--- and W--- with the valediction, "Help!" The third book of poems and one-liners which Mead began publishing in 1961 as "The Anonymous Diary of a New York... More
New York: Smoke, 1937. First edition. Quarto. Saddle-stitched, grey wrappers printed in black; unpaginated [28] pp. Scarce terminal issue of Smoke, one of a number of academic "little magazines" that emerged in the 1930s. It was published quarterly with six volumes published between 1931 and 1937. For most of its... More
Washington, D.C. Three Hands, 1951. First edition. Octavo (20.5 cm). Saddle-stapled, printed wrappers; unpaginated [36] pp. The scarce inaugural issue of this little poetry magazine, which committed itself to publishing only three poets per issue, 10-15 pages per poet. It was established by Eustace Mullins & Michael Reck who met... More
![Peace Eye [INSCRIBED]. Ed SANDERS.](/pictures/thumb/02926.jpg?v=1464639352)
Cleveland, Ohio: Frontier Press, 1967. Second edition. Quarto (26.5 cm). Perfect-bound; unpaginated. INSCRIBED by Sanders underneath Charles Olson's poetic foreword, which he references: "ah Charles! Many thanks for the introduction those many years ago. 3-31-01." NOT inscribed to Charles Olson who'd been dead for decades. Covers browned; stain to bottom... More
![Spun Sequence [INSCRIBED TO BENJAMIN APPEL]. John VARNEY.](/pictures/thumb/03483.jpg?v=1489073644)
[London]: Villiers Publications Ltd, 1960. First edition. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt spine; 188 pp.; dust jacket. INSCRIBED on the half-title from Varney to proletarian novelist, Benjamin Appel. Varney was a pro-Communist poet and professor at NYU. Although mostly forgotten today, he published numerous volumes of proletarian verse and was... More
![Iwilla Scourge [INSCRIBED]. Yvonne.](/pictures/thumb/01175.jpg?v=1478045633)
Bronx: Chameleon Productions, Inc. 1986. First edition. Octavoe (21 cm). Perfect-bound paperback; 80 pp. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. The second book in the author's Iwilla trilogy, which sees the trilogy's narrator, Deborah, recount Iwilla's Civil War experience. Slight rubbing to wrappers; one small nick to spine... More