Jones, LeRoi (=Amiri Baraka)

The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues

Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones) · 1987 · 84 Charing Cross Road Books

£38.90 (€46.63 | $51.39 | ¥8,206)

William Morrow and Company, Inc. First Edition. Good Condition. Good. ~~Withdrawn Ex-Library~~Good/Good 1st ed 1987 William Morrow and Company, Inc hardback, unclipped DJ. Ex-library copy with library pocket, stamps, spine label, and barcode stickers in protective sleeve. Size...

Blues People; Negro Music in White America

Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka) · 1999 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$15.94 (€10.13 | $11.17 | £8.46 | ¥1,784)

New York Harper Collins pp. 244. 8vo. General shelfwear, rubber stamp to title page; very good-.

Raise Race Rays Raze; Essays Since 1965

Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones) · 1972 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$36.17 (€23.00 | $25.35 | £19.19 | ¥4,047)

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

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

Sherbell, Shepard (editor) and William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Gregory Corso, LeRoi Jones Amiri Baraka, Norman Mailer, Kenneth Patchen (authors) · 1966 · Wittenborn Art Books

$200.00 (€181.47 | £151.39 | ¥31,937)

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 photo...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT on Mid-Century African-American Literary and Social History

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 0 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.25 | £1,419.31 | ¥299,414)

Handwritten ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by Baraka consisting of 4 yellow legal-sized sheets written on rectos only for an essay on Mid-Century African-American Literary and Social History. A partial manuscript, possibly unpublished. Present here are pages numbered 3, 4, 5, and 6. Bara...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of the Short Story NORMAN'S DATE

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 0 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.25 | £1,419.31 | ¥299,414)

Handwritten ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by Baraka consisting of 4 yellow legal-sized sheets written on rectos only for his short story "Norman's Date." A partial manuscript of this story which first appeared in PLAYBOY in 1982 and later collected in Baraka's 2006 book of short stories...

DUTCHMAN and THE SLAVE - Two Plays by LeRoi Jones

Jones, LeRoi [Amiri Baraka] · 1964 · Robert W. Reiner

$37.50 (€34.02 | £28.39 | ¥5,988)

NY, Morrow, 1964. [ ] Hardback, octavo, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, [vi] + 88 + [ii] pages, Near Very Good in Good+ dj (dj now in protective mylar). Tight square binding with hinges intact. Brown endpapers with name/year in red ballpoint top corner ffep (doesn't show up much on the ...

TYPED MANUSCRIPT SIGNED: The Descent of Charlie Fuller into Pulitzer Land

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 231982 · Charles Agvent

$8,125.00 (€7,372.08 | £6,150.36 | ¥1,297,461)

TYPED MANUSCRIPT (12 pages) of a critical article on Charles Fuller, concentrating on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play A SOLDIER'S STORY which debuted in 1982, as well as the current nature of Black Theater. Although the play enjoyed a long run, Fuller said it never played on B...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT: Naropa Lectures

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 1985 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,506.24 | £7,096.57 | ¥1,497,070)

A handwritten ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT titled "Naropa Lectures" by Baraka consisting of 21 pages on both sides of eleven 7-1/4" x 11-3/4" lined sheets stapled in the upper left corner. Baraka's notes for his lectures at Naropa where he taught at Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School during ...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT: Craft & Black Writer

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 1970 · Charles Agvent

$3,125.00 (€2,835.41 | £2,365.52 | ¥499,023)

A handwritten ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT by Baraka consisting of two 8-1/2" x 11" sheets of Paschal's Motor Hotel letterhead, written on rectos only, consisting of advice for African-American writers. Some of his observations: "Difficult for any writer to get below surface to go beyo...

TYPED MANUSCRIPT for the Introduction to HARD FACTS

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 0 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.17 | £946.21 | ¥199,609)

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...

SIGNED TYPESCRIPT: MONEY. A Jazz Opera

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 19781979 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,506.24 | £7,096.57 | ¥1,497,070)

Newark/Washington, DC. 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...

TYPED MANUSCRIPT of DAGGERS AND JAVELINS: Essays, 1974 - 1979

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 1981 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.17 | £946.21 | ¥199,609)

New York & London. Garland Publishing Inc.. First Edition. 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 Garl...

Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women

Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones) & Amina Baraka · 1983 · Marc van Dijk

€19.00 ($20.94 | £15.85 | ¥3,344)

Quill 418 pp. New York Good

Three Books by Imamu Amiri Baraka

Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones) · 1975 · Imago Press

CA$15.00 (€9.54 | $10.51 | £7.96 | ¥1,678)

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.

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

Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones) · Clayton Fine Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

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

Blues People: Negro Music in White America.

Jones, Leroi (Amiri Baraka), · 1999 · Vintage Books

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

New York, Quill / William Morrow & Co., 1999. Later Printing. Trade Paperback., Vg in Wraps. Light Edgewear. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 244.

Selected Plays and Prose of Amiri Barakay/Leroi Jones

AMIRI BARAKA/LEROI JONES · 1979 · Mike Long Books

$84.75 (€76.90 | £64.15 | ¥13,534)

William Morrow Publishing. 1979. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1979/Gd. condition/276 pages - A collection of plays and prose. Encompasses some major literary landmarks of the past two decades. [K711023]. Good.

Four Black Revolutionary Plays. All Praises to the Black Man

Jones, LeRoi [Amiri Baraka] · 1969 · Mare Booksellers

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover. Stated first printing. Hard cover. Lacking dust jacket. 89 pages. Four plays from this noted poet and dramatist. The plays include Experimental Death Unit #1, A Black Mass, Great Goodness of Life, and Madheart. In G...