Felix Silent Forest by Henderson David (9 results)

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Covers and paper just slightly toned else a fine copy -- illus. wraps (stapled). 2-pp. introduction by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka). A lovely copy of first book by Black American poet.

Paperback. Condition: Very good +. First printing. Introduction by LeRoi Jones. 8vo. Illustrated stapled wrappers. [unpaginated] Light toning along spine. No names or marks. A crisp, unmarked copy, with sharp corners.

First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems with an introduction by LeRoi Jones.

Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Soft cover. New York: The Poets Press, 1967. Small 8vo., unpaginated. Decorated stiff green wrappers. A fine copy. One of 2000 printed of the Author's first conventionally published book of verse. Introduction by LeRoi Jones.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Small octavo. Side stapled green wraps with artwork by Bret Rohmer. Unpaginated. One of 2000 copies. SIGNED by the author with a long inscription around the margins of the title page. Introduction by LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka). Edges faded and TEXT BLOCK LOOSE and cover separated at the spine. Felix of the Silent Forest is Henderson's first poetry collection. In the title poem, the cartoon character Felix the Cat "walks the City hungry in every sense," representing disenfranchised blacks and others spurned by American society. These poems introduced many of Henderson's recurrent images and themes, such as the forest in the city and the assassination of Malcolm X. - online review.David Henderson is an American writer and poet. Henderson was a co-founder of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s. He has been an active member of New York s Lower East Side art community for more than 40 years. In 1962 Henderson co-founded Umbra, both a literary collective and literary magazine with other Black writers and artists in New York's Lower East Side. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stapled wrappers, Le Roi Jones intro, Diane Di Prima's Press, Brett Rohmer cover.VV2/3.

0 First edition. Fine. Signed by author. very slight general toning only flaw.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stapled decorated wrappers, INSCRIBED "TO FEE POEMS 1961-65 THIS NEW YEAR 1968." Fee was Fielding Dawson, the distinquished writer and poet. They may have met at CCNY where the very young Henderson taught in the SEEK program. Burn mark, the size of half a needle on cover, slowly fading into the first few pages. Dawson seeminly died of Lung Cancer from cigarette smoking. A poignant memento mori.VVcl2/4. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Sq. 8vo, ltd to 25 hard bound and SIGNED copies, black shiny boards, gilt titling on cover, Diane Di Prima's press, the Bret Rohmer design of the p.b. echoed in this binding.one of the major break thru highlights of the Black Arts Movement.VVcloset2/4. Signed by Author(s).