Booker Sr Merrel Daniel (6 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo hardcover; 171 pp. Red and green foil title to spine; top edge brown-stained; b/w frontispiece and illustrations. Tight binding, clean throughout. Very minor wear to head of spine. Near Fine. DJ: Wear to head of spine; price clipped. Very Good. "Collected and edited by the Bookers.".…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. VG minus Dust Jacket. First Edition By This Publisher. 172 pages. weight = 405 grams "Short prose pieces and poetry by a wide variety of young African Americans, including a number of poems by Pearl Cleage when enrolled at Howard Fine Arts. Prizes were awarded for this collection and Cleage tied for second place. "Dustjacket = Minor staining to bottom edge; edge chipping; surface scratching small piece missing from backcover; Book = Staining to front cover; water staing to upper right corner of book; sticker residue to inside backcover; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. William H. Harris. (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG++. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First (English). The Bookers collected and edited this 162 page (text only) work that speaks to the `black experience. The writers represent prisoners, workers and academics - i.e. a BROAD range of views and talents. There are 9 sections to the book and some of those are headed: ` In the Ghetto Maze', ` Teachers, I've Tried', and ` Life - Death - With Tones and Half Tones Between'. Notes on authors, the Bookers and artists at back - 10 pages. Each section of the book is lead off by a B/W illus. - e.g. `United' (p. 74) - ink drawing by Wiliam Battle. Cond: BLACK boards with green and red (spine) lettering. Dark brown paper wrapper over with a black man's portrait by William Harris III. Former is bright, clean and tight with NO wear. Sticker residue and (pen) marks on end paper (brown). D.J. is lightly worn at edges - esp. top edge w/ one 1 inch tear. Sli. chipped and one tear back. Good at spine, bright and clean. Not price clipped. No names nor marks - internal. Tight in binding. FIRST edition. Quote: (p. 62) " Inside of me is good, but the outside of me is bad. When I get in my devilish moods, the inside of me explodes and I break bad with other people. Inside . ." (Rudolph Douglass - What Am I Really Like Inside) Size: 8vo. Miriam McGee et al (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+++. First Edition. Collected and edited by The Bookers. Frontis. Illustrated. xviii. Index of Authors. About the bookers. about the Authors. About the Artists. 172pp. Brown lining papers. Black cloth boards with metallic red and green title on spine. Pictorial Dust Jackets. Po's name on f.f.p. An anthology of works by young Black Americans. Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. 172pp. Foxing on the page edges else near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing and a crease on the front flap. "The authors of this book- an anthology of poems, short stories, and plays- are young Black Americans who range in age from ten years through twenty three.".…

dj. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[3],172pp.; frontispiece reproduction of a collage by William Harris III; additional text illus. Fine. Includes the first published appearance, the poems "Ghetto Service" and "Retrospect," of novelist Pearl Cleage, author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (1997).…