Five Plays by Ed Bullins

Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1969. First Printing. Softcover, 282 pp. VG or better (soiling and toning, chipping to spine edges). INSCRIBED by Bullins on half-title page: "Brother John To your future Black Writing Salaam Ed Bullins 3/29/70."

Plays include Goin' a Buffalo, In the Wine Time, A Son, Come Home, The Electronic Nigger, and Clara's Ole Man.

Bullins (1935-2021), who the New York Times called "among the most significant Black playwrights of the 20th century and a leading voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s," won three Obie Awards and retired in 2012 as a theater professor at Northeastern University in Boston.

Currently the only signed or inscribed copy in the trade. An early inscription by Bullins, who at the time (1967-1973) was living in New York City and at the peak of his career, writing mostly at the New Lafayette Theater. Item #1292

Price: $250.00