5th Printing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Fifth Printing. 12mo. 449 pages. Part of the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers Series. Navy cloth with spine and front stamped in gilt. Pages 4 and 5 creased. A sound copy. More about Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimke
First Edition. Easthampton: Press of the Sea Turtle, [ca. 1990s]. Signed by the author and numbered 18 of 426 copies (400 numbered on Strathmore Pastelle paper and 26 lettered on Japanese Paper). Designed by Alan James Robinson after an engraving by Durer; printed by Harold Patrick McGrath. Quarto (9.25"... More about Holding onto the Light
First Edition. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1998. First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 45pp. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering/ornamentation and patterned fore-edge. No dust jacket, as issued. Slight bow to front board, with a small spot at bottom front. Binding is sound. Author... More about Dusk Raga
First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Stated First Edition (simultaneously issued in hardback and paperback). Octavo; 192pp. Illustrated wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with some faint creasing to front. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More about Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
First Paperback Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. First Paperback Edition. Signed by the author on full title. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly shelfworn with some outward curving at fore-edge, along with a few smudges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More about Dwelling Places
Later Printing. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2001. Later Printing. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 509pp. Printed dust jacket over blindstamped red paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Heavy rubbing to top corners affecting jacket and boards. Jacket shows a small, clean tear... More about Cool, Calm & Collected: Poems 1960-2000
Limited First Edition. Taunton, MA: Effendi Press, 1978. Limited First Edition (100 hard-bound and 1000 paperback copies, published simultaneously). Signed by the author with brief inscription on title page. Octavo; unpaginated. Printed paper wraps. Covers lightly shelfworn with some toning along edges but no chips or tears. Binding is sound... More about American Journal
Washington, D.C.: Orchises Press, 2001. First Paperback Printing by numberline. Signed by the author on half title with brief inscription: "Jennifer -- Thanks for makin' it all possible.... David 11-29-01 Ion which day, 57 years ago, in a little manger outside Baton Rouge, LA, a child was born, and his... More about The Travelling Library
First Edition. New York: The Viking Press, 1982. First Edition. Signed by the author with inscription on full title. Octavo; 224pp. Photographic dust jacket with original $16.95 price; book in black paper- and green cloth-covered boards with gilt and black lettering. Jacket shows a couple tiny tears along... More about Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief: New and Selected Poems
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. Second Printing. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 81pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $22.00 price intact; book in black paper- and cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Jacket shows a small clean tear at top front and rubbing/creasing along... More about Without: Poems
First Edition. Cleveland: The Cleveland Poetry Center, 1994. First Edition, published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. Signed by the author with brief inscription dated 11.30.95 on full title. Octavo; 76pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly bumped at corners and spine ends with some vertical creasing along spine. Binding is... More about Nothing in Nature is Private
Fifth Printing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. Stated Fifth Printing. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 79pp. Printed paper wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with a small dampstain and abrasion to bottom fore-edge corners, involving just the first and last few pages. Binding is... More about The Father: Poems
First Paperback Edition. Hopewell: The Ecco Press, 1996. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. 12mo; 60pp. Illustrated paper wraps with gold blurb sticker on front. Covers lightly shelfworn, but with no chips or tears. Small dampstains to top and bottom page... More about Tremble
First Paperback Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 324pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, but with no chips or tears. Dust and spotting to top and page... More about On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems 1950-1988
First Edition. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Stated First Edition with full letter line. Signed by the author with brief inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; 393pp. Printed dust jacket with original $27.95 price; book in blue paper- and cloth-covered boards with white lettering. Jacket bumped with... More about New and Collected Poems
First Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 74pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $20.00 price; book in mustard paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket rubbed and creased along top... More about One Train
First Paperback Printing. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996. First Paperback Edition. Signed by the author with brief inscription on half title. Octavo; 83pp. Photo-illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly bumped at corners and curving outward a bit at fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked... More about Walking the Black Cat: Poems
First Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 285pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $27.95 price; book in burnt orange and black paper-covered boards with orange foil lettering. Jacket rubbed... More about The Collected Poems
First Edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. First Edition. Signed by Tracy K. Smith without inscription on first page of her contribution. Small Quarto; ix, 847-1101pp +7 ads. Printed paper wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with light bumping to corners and spine ends and a few faint smudges. Binding is... More about Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters (Vol 27 No 4
First Edition. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1858. First Edition. Octavo. 275 pages plus advertisements. Front and rear boards of red cloth blindstamped with ornamental decoration; spine stamped in gilt with title and a decoration of Cupid with three hearts caught on his arrow. Yellow endpapers with "C.C.B. Davis" both... More about The Dictionary of Love; Containing a Definition of All the Terms Used in the History of the...
First Edition. Philadelphia: Silas Engles, 1805. First Edition. Duodecimo. 358 pages plus errata. Lacks frontispiece. Full contemporary sheep with front cover crudely glued to spine. Gilt ruling and black label to spine. Edges scuffed, with a one inch abrasion tracing diagonally from front top corner of front board. Endpapers moderately... More about Avenia: Or, a Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and Infringement of the...