Welch, Leona Nicholas

Black Gibraltar

San Francisco: Leswing Press, 1971. First Edition. 75 pp. Illustrations by Doug Noble. VG+ in glossy illustrated wraps (crease and bubbling on front cover).

INSCRIBED to prolific Black author Ishmael Reed in May 1974: "To Ishmael Reed from Leona Nicholas Welch. 'The beauty of being Black lies in the wisdom and the love of being Black.'" Poems include "Fried Hair and Boiled Collard Greens," "Prelude to Love," "Psychedelic Hopes," "The Birth of Freedom," and "Is Black Blood Red?"

While well-represented institutionally, this is the only signed/inscribed copy currently on the market. A nice association. Item #1298

Price: $175.00