ishmael reed signed (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: +. First paperback printing. An anthology of writings on black history and culture. Contributors include Addison Gayle, Jr., George Davis, C.L.R. James, Ishmael Reed, Calvin C. Hernton, Oliver Jackson, Vincent Harding, and Verta Grosvenor plus "My Man Himes: An Interview With Chester Himes" by John A. Williams. SIGNED by Ishmael Reed at his contribution "Cab Calloway Stands in for the Moon." Biographical sketches of contributors. ix, 308 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (minor wear to covers).

Zustand: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback original. Includes selections by twenty-two writers, from the past and present, including Walker Percy, Anne Rice, Lafcadio Hearn, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Truman Capote, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain and more. Introduction by Andrei Codrescu. SIGNED by Ishmael Reed at his contribution, an excerpt from Mumbo Jumbo. vii, 217 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing, a trade paperback original. Introduction by Malcolm Margolin. Includes stories, poems and essays, arranged roughly chronologically from authors like Jack London and Lincoln Steffens to Simone De Beauvoir, Dorothy Bryant, Philip K. Dick, Robert Duncan, John Kennethy Galbraith, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Griffin, Robert Hass, Jack Kerouac, Maxine Hong Kingston, Josephine Miles, Frank Norris, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Bobby Seale, Jack Spicer, George R. Stewart, Yoshiko Uchida and Al Young. The final selection is a poem by Julia Vinograd "For Moe Who Died", an epitaph for the longtime Berkeley bookseller. SIGNED by TWO authors at their contributions - Susan Griffin and Ishmael Reed. Biographical notes. xv, 240 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing, the trade paperback issue. An anthology that includes work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the American Muslim experience. Includes contributions from both well-know writers like Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Russell Banks, and Zora Neale Hurston to newly discovered writers of all races, genders, and backgrounds. Among the 60 authors are Chester Himes, Robert Coover, Bharati Mukherjee, Benjamin Franklin, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ntozake Shange, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mark Twain, Grace Paley, Russell Charles Leong, Charles Wright, James Alan McPherson, and many more. SIGNED by Lucha Corpi and Cecil Brown at their contributions. Foreword by Reed, notes on contributors. xxvii, 505 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. Special issue devoted to the stories of students at U.C. Berkeley - a literary magazine that aims "to publish the newest and most interesting writing from North America's many writing cultures." This issue is uncommon in that it is all short fiction; contributors include Fae Myenne Ng, Michael Moore, Eric Miller, Lisa Gulick and more. SIGNED by editor and African American poet Al Young on the title page 254 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Very good in stiff illustrated covers (some minor soiling to covers, stain on lower corner of front).

Zustand: FINE. 2nd printing. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of this significant Supreme Court decision, this is an anthology by ten of today's top writers for children - both African American and white - including Eloise Greenfield, Ishmael Reed, Quincy Troupe, Lois Lowry, Jean Craighead George, Jerry Spinelli, Katherine Patterson, Michael Cart, Leona Nicholas Welch and Thomas herself - which presents their experiences and recollections of life before the historical Supreme Court decision that desegregated public schools in 1954, and afterwards. SIGNED by THREE authors: by Joyce Carol Thomas on the title page, by Ishmael Reed on the dedication page, and by Lois Lowry at her essay "Anthony." Uncommon thus. Illustrated with full page color pastel drawings by James Curtis. Printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 114 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Zustand: VERY GOOD. First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. A literary magazine that aims "to publish the newest and most interesting writing from North America's many writing cultures." With poetry, short fiction, essays, photos and drawings. Contributors include Calvin Hernton, Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Frank Chin, Angelita D. Reyes, Joyce M. Winters, Anna Pool, Marco A. Portales, Floyd Salas, William Melvin Kelley and more. SIGNED by SIX contributors: by editor Al Young on the title page and twice by poet Julia Vinograd at her contributions "Broadway and Columbus" and "Full Moon" and by Garrett Hongo at his long and powerful "Willingly to Camp; Mythologies of Relocation"; Floyd Salas at "Pussy, Pussy Everywhere"; Frank Chin at "The Most Popular Book in China" and Cecil Brown at "Letter to Ish." Notes on the contributors. 190 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Very good overall. Some toning and fading to white cover. Price on back punched out.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. An uncommon and unpredictable anthology bringing together writers of all colors and ethnic backgrounds who discuss just what American culture is today, what it can be, and the problems in our understanding of what it means to be an American. This includes essays by Miguel Algarin, Frank Chin, Robert Eliot Fox, Juan Felipe Herrera, Maulena Karenga, Barbara Smith, William Wong, Gerald Horne, John A Williams, Ana Castillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Amiri Baraka, Gerald Vizenor, Bharati Mukherjee, and many others. SIGNED by THREE authors: by Reed on the title page and by Frank Chin at his contribution "Rashomon Road" and Juan Felipe Herrera at "The Colored Trickster and the Frida Painter." Brief biographical notes. xxvii, 467 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. A literary magazine that aims "to publish the newest and most interesting writing from North America's many writing cultures." With poetry, short fiction, essays, photos and drawings. Contributors include Calvin Hernton, Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Frank Chin, Angelita D. Reyes, Joyce M. Winters, Anna Pool, Marco A. Portales, Floyd Salas, William Melvin Kelley and more. SIGNED by SEVEN writers: editors Al Young and Ishmael Reed on the title page and poets Garrett Hongo at his long and powerful "Willingly to Camp; Mythologies of Relocation" ; Floyd Salas at "Pussy Pussy Everywhere" and Julia Vinograd at "Blues"; Frank Chin at "The Most Popular Book in China" and Cecil Brown at "Letter to Ish." Notes on the contributors. 190 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Near fine. Some light soiling to white cover.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. The sixth of the Breadloaf anthologies - poetry, stories and essays with an introduction by Pack and Parini. This copy is SIGNED by SIX contributors: Julia Alvarez at her poem 'Homecoming'; James Atlas at 'Chicago Highbrow, Erica Jong at 'How I Got to Be Jewish,' Ishmael Reed at 'Distant Cousins,' Gary Soto at "One Last Time' and Garrett Hongo at "Kubota." Among the 40 contributors are Julia Alvarerez, Pinckney Benedict, Larry Brown, Melvin Dixon, Michael Dorris, Garett Hongo, Robert Houston, Erica Jong, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Mariani, Linda Pastan, Gay Talese, Richard Rodriguez, Julia Ortiz Cofer, Ron Powers, Ishmael Reed, Sarah Shulman, Gary Soto, Gore Vidal, Terry Tempest Williams, and Clara Yu. Notes on the contributors, 373 pp. Fine in a fine dustjacket. Uncommon signed.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a very rare, highly collectible CHAPBOOK for an event (ball) hosted by Lauren Bacall, William Styron and George Plimpton in 1980, "Tenth Birthday Party of Poets & Writers, Inc." In this chapbook, there are 31 famous writers and poets, half of which have signed their name underneath the piece of writing presented in this book. Among the honored poets & writers are 17 signatures including: Margaret Atwood, Louis Auchincloss, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Gail Godwin, John Irving, Galway Kinnell, Maxine Kumin, Peter Matthiessen, William Meredith, James Merrill, W.S. Merwin, Grace Paley, Judith Rossner, Louis Simpson, William Jay Smith and John A. Williams on the page of their presented piece of writing. The program in the forefront presents the benefactors, patrons, sponsors and board of directors and in the rear 'Happy Birthday' ads; to list a few: The Swallow Press, Inc., CBS, Inc. The New York Times, The Paris Review, etc. The other 16 authors presented in the program that did not sign are: Paul Bowles, Rita Mae Brown, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Richard Eberhart, John Hawkes, Arthur Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Carl Rakosi, Samuel Beckett, Ishmael Reed, Ntozake Shange, William Stafford, John Updike and Derek Walcott. Roseland, CA, October 22, 1980, 1980 Poet's & Writers, Inc., New York, New York. Helen Handley, General Chair, President, Friends of Poets & Writers, Inc.; Galen Williams, Founder and Executive Director. 4to. Unpaginated ~64pp. RARE. COLLECTIBLE. MORE PICS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST- B.R. Box 162.