Saggittarus (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gilt lettering on black covers. 8vo, 82 pages.

First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 131pp. Touch of soil to text block edges, else a fine, apparently unread copy. Short stories on racial themes by Carl Shears, aka "Saggittarus," author and proprietor of the Nuclassics & Science Publishing Co., one of the more adventurous afrocentric publishers of the Seventies. This one of the scarcer productions of the press.

Second Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); white photo-illustrated wrappers printed in red and black; xi,[1],113,[2](ads)pp; title page illustrated with fictional map of Florida divided into "Afro-America," "Neutral," and "Florida." Fine and unread. Dystopian novel set in the years approaching 2000, looking back on a fictional genocide committed against the black population in the United States, set off by the energy crisis. An alternative narrative to the novel published by Saggittarus the following year, Before the Setting Sun, which recounts the rise of America's first black dictator.

First edition, first printing. Self-published by Carl L. Shears, the pseudonym of Hambone, under the D.C. imprint Nuclassics and Science Publishing Co. The novel is set in the near future prefaced with a short manifesto of what is ailing the United States, or a country "held together by tissue paper!" The vision of America's future is laid out by the coming to power of a black dictator through uprisings and an eventual second civil war culminating in General Hambone's coup d'eta, "Only Hambone could save the nation. Democracy was dying a slow death." "Photograph of Hambone after his promotion from captain to brigadier general at a secret meeting of congress" on lower cover and cover art by Liani. Scarce title. Good condition, wraps fairly soiled and edgeworn, light soiling to text block edges, with all faults a strong copy. Signature-bound octavo (5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches) in photo-illustrated wraps, [iv] ii [iv] iv [ii] 198 pp.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); photo-illustrated wrappers; xiv,[2],198pp. Fine, unread copy. Novel set in the not-too-distant future, describing "The Rise to Power of America's Black Dictator General Hambone." Pseudonymously authored by the founder of the Nuclassics and Science Publishing Company. Uncommon utopian/dystopian Black Power novel; no others found in commerce (2015); 17 copies located in OCLC.