Cleaver Eldridge, Signed (18 results)

Hardcover. xxvi, 336p., foreword, introduction, afterword, notes, index, illustrated with photos, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dust jacket.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by Randolph on the title page. Randlph House Press (Berkeley). Copyright 1995, no edition stated, no additonal printings listed (first edition). Comb-bound acetate covers about 8½x11 inches. Near Fine (slight age discoloration and small ink number on the front cover). 120 pages, unmarked. POETRY; D2489 R Poe; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 120 pages; Signed by Author(s).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 256 pages. An interesting book from this important social activist. Features an introduction by Eldridge Cleaver. Includes numerous black and white illustrations An interesting copy as though it isn't signed it came from the estate/library of literary and cultural critic John Leonard who obviously engaged with the book as he creased numerous corners and made some marks in the margins. Otherwise a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with some chipping to the top of the spine and some other wear.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. Signed by Katherine Cleaver. Book has minimal wear. Pages are tanning but clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. A memoir of Cleaver's growing up, the Black Panthers, his time in Algiers, and his conversion to Christianity. Illustrated with halftone photographs. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine copy in a dust jacket showing light wear along the top edge. Signed by Cleaver on the front free endpaper, and scarce thus.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 240 pages : illustrations. This is an exceptional copy of Cleaver's 1978 account of his life. The publisher's binding shows only slight wear; the contents are as new. On the front free endpaper is a long inscription from Cleaver, signed bt him and by his wife, Kathleen. The dust jacket shows only minor wear, with a one-eighth inch open tear at the top edge of its front panel. 430 grams. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Author signature on title page seems to be authentic. Overall Good. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Third edition. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. Quarto. Very good due to underlining thorough the text and a touch of wear at the corners and ink owner name in very good or better dust jacket with tiny ink mark on rear cover and moderate edgewear at the perimeter, including creases and small tears. Inscribed by Cleaver: "For Carolyn, at Ann Arbor. Eldridge 8-16/68.".

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. Stapled wrappers. [8]pp. Hint of oxidation at the staples and light edgwear, near fine. One of six small volumes in a series, this one a collection of three short poems. Signed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Simon & Schuster. New York. 1970. First edition, first printing stated. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Illustrated panels. Original DJ with $5.95 price intact on flap. Book and DJ are near fine. No flaws of note, just minor handling. Also included is a softcover first printing hand-signed by Jerry Rubin. Signed on the half-title page: Yipee! Jerry (Rubin). Both of these first edition, first printings are published by Simon & Schuster. The signed half-title page of the softcover edition could easily be excised and laid-in to the hardcover edition should you wish to make one signed hardcover first edition, first printing. Two first edition, first printings; one being an uncommon signed copy of the counterrevolutionary cult classic. Signed by Author(s).

First edition of Cleaver's autobiography. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Towards Freedom for all God's Children Eldridge Cleaver 2/25/81." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Dennis Hill. Uncommon signed. How could Eldridge Cleaver, with his background-militant, violent, criminal expect the public to believe that he is now a Christian? Soul on Fire answers the questions that have confronted the public mind ever since this ex-Black Panther returned to America to face trial. In Soul on Fire, Eldridge Cleaver tells of his childhood and young adulthood; the years which shaped him into the man he was to become. Here is the tumult and violence of the 60's-from the viewpoint of one of that decade's most notorious outlaws; a viewpoint that will surprise some and outrage others.

First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (20.25cm); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; [5],6-256pp; illus. Signed by the author ("Yippie! Jerry") on the preliminary leaf. Modest wear, gentle sunning to spine, with a 1cm rubbed spot to front joint; contents clean, complete; Very Good or better. A major political statement by the co-founder of the Youth International Party and one of the Chicago 8. "Do It! is a Declaration of War between the generations, a frenzied psalm to the Movement, a handbook for revolutionaries comparable to Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare" (from rear flap). Signed.

Cleaver signed the s tapled pamphlet published by The Friends of Eldridge Cleaver, San Francisco. His signature shows in full at the end of the "Introduction," which explains why "The Friends" put the pamphlet together. "The material in this pamphlet was selected and reprinted by The Friends of Eldridge Cleaver, a loosely-knit group of residents of the San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley Bay Are.concerned about.Eldridge.We do not want to see him scapegoated." The group seeks to increase public knowledge of the, "April 6, 1968 clash with the Oakland Police.for which Eldridge will soon stand trial.Many forces have conspired to cover up this era.Research into these dark pages of our history is vitally needed." Cleaver signs, "Eldridge Cleaver." White wrappers, with print and photographs in blue. Cleaver is pictured on the front and on the back cover with his wife and baby. Print and images throughout the booklet are printed in blue.

Later printing. Signed and inscribed by the author Eldridge Cleaver: ÒFor Lynn Scarlett, With best wishes for a bright future! Eldridge Cleaver 8/26/85.Ó Near fine copy with a trace of foxing to the top edge and some minor edge wear in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a few small chips and tears. A collection of eloquent and powerful essays and open letters written by one of the most prominent leaders of the Black Panther Party, Eldridge Cleaver, while he was in prison. Leroy Eldridge Cleaver (1935 Ð 1998) was a writer and political activist who helped to craft the black liberation movement and the consciousness of race in the United States and abroad. Soul On Ice was praised by The New York Times Book Review at the time of its publication as "brilliant and revealing.".

First Edition. CLEAVER, Eldridge. Soul on Fire. Waco, Texas: Word Books, (1978). Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. $1100.First edition of the revolutionary Black Panther's 1978 autobiography, looking back on his life in the decade since Soul on Ice (1968), inscribed by him in the year of publication, "For M , Who worked hard to set our launching in motion. Right On! Eldridge Cleaver 9/18/78."Eldridge Cleaver broke with the Black Panthers in the early 1970s. After moving abroad, "he underwent a mystical conversion to Christianity after an experience in which he said he saw the figure of Jesus Christ on the face of the moon. He came to believe that the socialist and Marxist systems he had witnessed in other countries failed to deliver on their promises" (New York Times). On returning to the U.S. as a born-again Christian, he authored and published Soul on Fire, where he writes of his transformation. Cleaver joined the Republican Party and later battled drug and alcohol addictions before his death in 1998. First edition, first printing: with no statement of edition or printings on the copyright page. Containing 21 pages of black-and-white illustrations. With laid-in typed note to recipient Maria Ryan from public relations executive William Liss, with his signature. Accompanied by copies of two typed letters regarding a September 1978 press conference for the publication of Soul on Fire, from the marketing director of Word Books to executives at ABC. Book fine; small closed tear to lower front edge of about-fine dust jacket. Signed.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Eldridge Cleaver on the front free endpaper with date 10-2-68 and inscribed "For Jack Jones, in Absentia. All Power to the People." xvi, 210, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in white and green. Very Good with light rubbing, toning, and mottling along edges, light toning to contents. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light toning, soiling, and edgewear. A signed copy of the Black Panther Party leader's best-known work, a political manifesto comprising autobiographical essays written while Cleaver was incarcerated in Folsom Prison. "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation," he writes. "I never know what significance I'm supposed to attach to these factors." Cleaver was paroled in 1966 and was selected as the Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party shortly after this book was published, though his campaign was derailed by a shootout between members of the Black Panther Party and the Oakland police.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Eldridge Cleaver on the front free endpaper and inscribed "To Gitelle, at a P+F [Peace and Freedom Party] meeting. Best Wishes for the future. [signed] Eldridge Cleaver 3-26-68" xvi, 210, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in white and green. Good with slight lean and toning to spine. Moderate rubbing, soiling and mottling to covers, fraying to extremities, and light soiling to textblock edges, and endpapers. Contents with occasional stains. In a Good dust jacket with light toning and soiling, moderate edgewear, 2 1/4 inch tear to lower right edge of front panel, and light but pernicious blue staining from cloth dye to verso. A signed copy of the Black Panther Party leader's best-known work, a political manifesto comprising autobiographical essays written while Cleaver was incarcerated in Folsom Prison. "I'm perfectly aware that I'm in prison, that I'm a Negro, that I've been a rapist, and that I have a Higher Uneducation," he writes. "I never know what significance I'm supposed to attach to these factors." Cleaver was paroled in 1966 and was selected as the Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party shortly after this book was published, though his campaign was derailed by a shootout between members of the Black Panther Party and the Oakland police.

unbound. Extremely scarce typed letter signed in full with important content, 1 page, 4to, 11 x 8.5 inches, Berkeley, California, August 18, 1986, written to political activist Karen Koelker (best known for her stance in the highly publicized Claire Morrison case while affiliated with the Berkeley Property Owners Association), attempting a division of property while ironically, being forced to vacate the Morrison household: "I am returning several items of your property. There are many other things around my place which I got from you. You are welcome to any or all of them. However, I know that you have a particular concern about these items.which I am anxious to regain: 1. The briefcase containing my collection of negatives which are either in the closet in 'Judy's Room' at the Arch, or in the larger closet in Mrs. Morrison's part of the apartment. 2. The black, rectangular case, containing my IBM diskettes, etc., which is in the closet in the TV room at Colusa." Note: Many scholars refer to the Claire Morrison case as one of the last great deeds accomplished by Eldridge Cleaver. Marlene Lily's article in "The Blackbird Press" on April 20, 2013 summed it up as follows: "The house Eldridge lived in was given to him by Claire Morrison, a childless old lady he and his friend Karen rescued from a convalescent hospital in the 1980's amid great publicity. When she died, her will gave Eldridge the house on Allston Way. Mrs. Morrison's heirs (the same ones who had tried to lock her up in a hospital against her will) sued, and after several years won the house back. In the meantime, Eldridge had a house rent free - and of course he didn't pay the taxes or insurance either." Letters signed by Cleaver rarely come to market. This one has two horizontal folds, but is still in near fine condition. African-American writer and radical political activist best known for his leadership in the Black Panther Party during the late 1960s and early 1970s.