Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones)

"Black (Art) Drama Is the Same as Black Life" in Ebony (February, 1971)

First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Near fine in original wrappers. Light wear and rusty staples. Fine.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b15832

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES)

Call & Response

[Newark, NJ ], Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger, 1980. First Edition. Broadside. A SIGNED broadside (9-1/2" x 13") of this poem printed on the dedication of the author's reading at Walker Art Center. Copy #13 of 85. We also have copy #12 in similar condition. Minor soiling, light edgewear, a couple of ink strokes in the text. Very Good .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 020173

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern Poetry, African-American Literature, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Beats, Beat Literature, Leroi Jones, Amiri Baraka Signed Literature: American Modern First Editions African-American Literature

BARAKA, AMIRI (LEROI JONES) & AMINA BARAKA

Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women

New York, Quill. 1983. (ISBN: 0688015824) Soft Cover. 418 pp. Good.

Marc van DijkProfessional seller

Book number: 024052

Catalogue: Literatuur

Keywords: 0688015824

LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka]

Dutchman and the Slave

London, Faber and Faber, 1965. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of the publication of these two plays from LeRoi Jones, both focussing on themes of black liberation and white racism. The first UK edition, first impression of these two plays from American writer Amiri Baraka, at the time writing under the name LeRoi Jones. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.A political allegory depicting black and white relations in the 1960s, 'Dutchman' details the story of a black man meeting a white woman while riding the New York subway. The second play present, 'The Slave' is similarly described as 'centred on Negro-white conflict&apos.Loosely inserted is a poster and advertising pamphlet for the 1967 British film adaptation, starring Shirley Knight and Al Freeman, Jr. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip head and tail, with boards clean and bright. Edge wear to head and tail of dust wrapper back strip, with light marks to rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 802F20

Catalogue: Plays

Keywords: Dutchman Shirley Knight race Amiri Baraka Shirley Knight None

Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones)

Raise Race Rays Raze; Essays Since 1965

New York, Vintage, 1972. Paperback. pp. 169. Small 8vo. Dark yellow binding. General shelfwear, evidence of prior moisture damage to rear cover; very good. .

Bison BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 088204

Catalogue: Race & Gender

Keywords: Political; political science; black nationalism; black arts; anti semitism; black separatism

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES)

Signed Typescript: Money. A Jazz Opera

Newark/Washington, DC, December 1978 - January 1979. Manuscript. A photocopied ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by Baraka consisting of 135 loose pages, many of them with pencil or ink markings and annotations, housed in an orange paper folder with "MONEY/orig)" in Baraka's hand on the front cover. The manuscript is SIGNED in full by the author at the conclusion with the date and place in type. MONEY was first produced Off-Broadway in 1982 with music by George Gruntz, the director of the Zurich opera and orchestra, and later in part at George Wein's New York Jazz Festival in the early 1990s. According to Baraka, MONEY was even "banned in France by the United States" because it was considered anti-American. A few pages with coffee stains, expected general use. Complete and Very Good .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 021014

Catalogue: Manuscript

Keywords: Manuscript, African-American Literature, Theater, Jazz, African-American Music, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Beats, Beat Literature, Leroi Jones, Amiri Baraka Manuscript Literature: American Modern First Editions African-American Literature

Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones)

Three Books by Imamu Amiri Baraka

New York, Grove, 1975. Perfect binding, 132 pp. 6"-8". fine. First Evergreen ed. In its second printing. Includes "The Dead Lecturer" further hard-hitting poems & fictions.

Imago PressProfessional seller

Book number: 31

Catalogue: Poetry

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES)

Typed Manuscript of Daggers and Javelins: Essays, 1974 - 1979

New York & London, Garland Publishing Inc. 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Plain blue wraps with black binder tape spine lettered in white with the text printed on rectos only, 8-1/2" x 11". A collection of essays not officially published until 1984 by William Morrow. We are not sure why Garland never published the book or if there are any textual differences between this typed manuscript and the published book. There are some ink corrections and additions throughout. A preliminary page is headed "Critical Studies on Black Life and Culture" with Charles T. Davis and Henry-Louis Gates listed as advisory editors. Near Fine .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 019998

Catalogue: African-American Literature

Keywords: African-American Literature, Manuscript, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Beats, Beat Literature, Leroi Jones, Amiri Baraka Modern First Editions Literature: American Beat Literature African-American Literature

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES)

Typed Manuscript for the Introduction to Hard Facts

[1975]. Manuscript. TYPED MANUSCRIPT (5 pages) of the Introduction to his book of poetry HARD FACTS. Baraka has made several alterations and additions in the text including about 50 words in his hand at the bottom of the fourth page: "The year the class struggle in Blk America became clear & open Segregation [?] & the productive forces loosed in on oppressed [?] just enough to create a vicious verticality, an oppressive class, in collaboration w/ the big bourgeosie who now sat in the white house openly & picked their toes. Near Fine .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 021429

Catalogue: Manuscript

Keywords: Manuscript, African-American Literature, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Beats, Beat Literature, Leroi Jones, Amiri Baraka Manuscript Literature: American Modern First Editions African-American Literature

CALDWELL, BEN / MILNER, RONALD / Bullins, Ed / Jones, Leroi.

A Black Quartet - Four new black plays.

New York City. Mentor. 1970. Paperback. XXIII,158,(2)pp. With an Introduction by Clayton Riley. First printing. 8vo. Covers slightly stained. Pages slightly sunned, text underlining. Owner's name on endpaper. Slightly used.

Worpsweder AntiquariatProfessional seller

Book number: 553384

Catalogue: Theater / Dramen

Sherbell, Shepard (editor) and William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, LeRoi Jones Amiri Baraka, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Patchen (authors)

East Side Review. Vol. I No. 1. A Magazine of Contemporary Culture

New York: Shepard Sherbell-East Side Press, 1966. 4to. Wraps 96pp. Vol. 1 no. 1 (all publ.). New York, Jan./Feb. 1966. Original pictorial wrappers; numerous illustrations. 96pp. Offset on different colors of paper stock. Edited and published by Shepard Sherbell; numerous photographs (Peter Moore a.o.); contribs. by William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso (Notes on the Lenny Bruce obscenity trial), Leroi Jones, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Patchen, Michael McClure, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Bly , Tuli Kupferberg, John Wieners a.o. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 51-2753

Catalogue: Ephemera

Ellert, F. C., Sidney Kaplan, (eds); Ben Shahn (art); Edward Dahlberg, Robert Frost, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Dickey, David Wagoner, Lincoln Kirstein, John Hollander, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Denise Levertov, LeRoi Jones

The Massachusetts Review, Volume 3, No. 2, Winter 1962

Amherst, MA: The Massachusetts Review, 1962. Bound in printed wraps. Cover portrait of William Carlos Williams by Ben Shahn. 8vo. 6 x 9 inches. Paginated 221-443. Writing by Edward Dahlberg, Robert Frost, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Dickey, David Wagoner, Lincoln Kirstein, John Hollander, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Denise Levertov, LeRoi Jones, and others. Clean and tight copy, in Fine condition. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 59-3474

Catalogue: Books

Hornick, Lita; Jones, Leroi (eds)

Kulchur 16

New York, Kulchur Press, 1964. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. wraps, 103 pp covers worn and soiled and detached on the spine some notes and underlining Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Fair .

San Francisco Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 82906

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Theatre, Music

(Williams, William Carlos) Ignatow, David, guest editor. Contributors includeMerwin, W.S., LeRoi Jones, Adrienne Rich, Carol Berge, Denise Levertov, A.R. Ammons, Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, and others

William Carlos Williams: A Memorial Chapbook (Beloit Poetry Journal, Fall 1963)

Beloit, WI, 1963. First Edition. 0 pp. Soft cover. Good in original wrappers. Mild sunning along the spine and light rubbing. Good.

Library Books / Clayton Fine BooksProfessional seller

Book number: b44846

JONES, LEROI

The Baptism and the Toilet

New York, Grove Press, Inc. 1966. Soft Cover. Gd. condition , PB, : Two of LeRoi Jones earliest plays .. (HI2). Good.

Mike Long BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 2512ml

Catalogue: Black History

Keywords: black theatre black art repertory, actor, theatre, stage, negro, slavery, adventure, mystery, suspense, history, africa, african, plantation, hollywood, play,