Detroit: Broadside Press, [1985]. Tenth Anniversary Edition. 16 pp. VG+ stapled wraps (a touch of toning). Twelve poems, including "The Boy Died in My Alley," "A Black Wedding Song," and "Boys. Black" ("Boys, in all your Turnings and your Churnings, / remember Afrika... / ... Beware / the easy griefs..... More
Chicago: The David Company, 1991. First Edition. Softcover in format of a composition notebook. VG+ or better (the slightest of wear). Twenty-one poems in the voices of schoolchildren. The opening poem, "After School," begins, "Not all of the children / come home to cookies and cocoa. Some come to crack..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition. 54 pp. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. "The book takes its title from a long narrative poem set in a huge decayed apartment house in Chicago's Negro ghetto, a building called the Mecca." Nine shorter poems follow, referencing Malcolm X and Medgar..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. First Edition. VG+ in a VG or better unclipped dustjacket (toning, edgewear, 1" closed tear to lower edge, small chip to rear). The lone novel for adults published by Pulitzer Prize winning author Brooks, about an African American woman navigating life in the Chicago..... More
Chicago: Brooks Press, 1983. First Edition. 8 pp. Approximately 5.5” x 8.5” in VG+ stapled wraps (sunning at edges). Laid in is a 4” x 6” advertising card announcing “New Paperbacks from Gwendolyn Brooks.” SIGNED on title page “Sincerely Gwendolyn Brooks.” No signed copies found in commerce. More
Chicago: Third World Press, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Illustrated by Timothy Jones. VG or better oblong illustrated stapled wraps (staining to rear cover, light creasing to front cover, edgewear). The third children's story writen by Brooks. More
Chicago: Brooks Press, 1983. First Printing. 32 pp. VG+ in stapled green wraps (sunning to edges). 5”-5.5” x 8.5”. Laid in is a 4” x 6” advertising card announcing “New Paperbacks from Gwendolyn Brooks.” SIGNED on title page “Sincerely Gwendolyn Brooks.” Third World Press published an edition of this title..... More
