Whitehead Arch (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 12mo, 66 pp. With review slip. Love poetry by the New York businessman and writer, father of Pulitzer and National Book Award winner Colson Whitehead.

Paperback. 63p. 4.25x7 inches, very good first edition slim trade paperbacks in pictorial wraps. African American poet. Whitehead, who was Colson Whitehead's father, later made this available as a boxed set with two other of his poetry books. He and Cyril James were on a bus together with four other poets and decided to start their own publishing house, Horizon 6.

Paperback. 67p. 4.25x7 inches, very good first edition slim trade paperbacks in pictorial wraps. African American poet. Whitehead, who was Colson Whitehead's father, later made this available as a boxed set with two other of his poetry books. He and Cyril James were on a bus together with four other poets and decided to start their own publishing house, Horizon 6.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First editions, three volumes. 12mos. 67, [2]pp.; 63, [2]pp.; and 66, [1]pp. Illustrated perfectbound wrappers. Each volume is fine. Publisher's complimentary card laid into each volume. First three books of romantic love poetry by this African-American author and successful entrepreneur, who is also the father of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead (whose full name is Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead). We have seen one set in a slipcase, but do not know if all copies were issued as a slipcased set. Very scarce.