Young Al Signed (10 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected Proof. Signed by Young on the title page. Dell Publishing, 1988, paperback, light salmon printed wraps UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOF, Very Good + (some creasing at corners of front cover) , probably unread, 338 pages, unmarked. ISBN on back cover: 0440550041. FICTION AFRICAN-AMERICAN FICTION [ntsp] ; B0865 Y Fic; 338 pages; Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Black hardcover shows only light edgewear. SIGNED OM THE TITLE PAGE BY SMITH.95 pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The DJ shows only slight edgewear. 2.25 lb. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: FINE. Trade paperback, Book of the Month club edition. A significant anthology with contributions from both established and emerging writers, including Tina McElroy Ansa, Octavia Butler, James Alan McPherson, John Mc Cluskey, Ernest Gaines, Rita Dove, Darryl Pinckney, Connie Porter, Barbara Neely, Wesley Brown, Becky Birtha, Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Connie Porter, Gayl Jones, Al Young and many others. SIGNED by Al Young at his contribution. Preface by John Edgar Wideman. Notes on contributors. 690 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing in wrappers. A title in the Portable Stanford Series - an anthology of fiction by nineteen writers who taught at Stanford, including Tillie Olsen, Stephanie Vaughn, Robert Stone, Arturo Islas, M. Scott Momaday, Herbert Gold, Yvor Winters, Ron Hansen and others. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Al Young at 'Chicken Hawk's Dream' and Ron Hansen at 'The Sun So Hot I Froze to Death.' Uncommon thus. 196 pp. Very good in illustrated wrappers (pgs 85-116 have been bound in upside down, crease to back cover.).

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. Special issue devoted to the stories of students at U.C. Berkeley - a literary magazine that aims "to publish the newest and most interesting writing from North America's many writing cultures." This issue is uncommon in that it is all short fiction; contributors include Fae Myenne Ng, Michael Moore, Eric Miller, Lisa Gulick and more. SIGNED by editor and African American poet Al Young on the title page 254 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Very good in stiff illustrated covers (some minor soiling to covers, stain on lower corner of front).

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing, a thick trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Published to celebrate Stanford's Centennial. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Includes selections from 100 contributors from Edward Abbey through Peter Beagle, Wendell Berry, Robert Haas, Ken Kesey, Larry McMurtry, Tillie Olsen and more. SIGNED by 3 authors at their contributions: Marilyn Chin, Thomas McGuane and Al Young, and uncommon thus.xxii, 512 pp. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners curling a bit, crease to lower corner of back cover).

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing. A lovely book, slightly oversized, illustrated by Terrance Cummings. The poems are arranged thematically, and so in the section on "Freedom" Henry Dumas's "Root Song" is followed by the 19th c poet, Frances E. W. Harper's "The Slave Auction." SIGNED by Al Young at his poem "A Dance for Ma Rainey." Index of title and of authors. 256 pp Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. A literary magazine that aims "to publish the newest and most interesting writing from North America's many writing cultures." With poetry, short fiction, essays, photos and drawings. Contributors include Calvin Hernton, Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Frank Chin, Angelita D. Reyes, Joyce M. Winters, Anna Pool, Marco A. Portales, Floyd Salas, William Melvin Kelley and more. SIGNED by SIX contributors: by editor Al Young on the title page and twice by poet Julia Vinograd at her contributions "Broadway and Columbus" and "Full Moon" and by Garrett Hongo at his long and powerful "Willingly to Camp; Mythologies of Relocation"; Floyd Salas at "Pussy, Pussy Everywhere"; Frank Chin at "The Most Popular Book in China" and Cecil Brown at "Letter to Ish." Notes on the contributors. 190 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Very good overall. Some toning and fading to white cover. Price on back punched out.

Condition: NEAR FINE. First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover. A literary magazine that aims "to publish the newest and most interesting writing from North America's many writing cultures." With poetry, short fiction, essays, photos and drawings. Contributors include Calvin Hernton, Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Frank Chin, Angelita D. Reyes, Joyce M. Winters, Anna Pool, Marco A. Portales, Floyd Salas, William Melvin Kelley and more. SIGNED by SEVEN writers: editors Al Young and Ishmael Reed on the title page and poets Garrett Hongo at his long and powerful "Willingly to Camp; Mythologies of Relocation" ; Floyd Salas at "Pussy Pussy Everywhere" and Julia Vinograd at "Blues"; Frank Chin at "The Most Popular Book in China" and Cecil Brown at "Letter to Ish." Notes on the contributors. 190 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. Near fine. Some light soiling to white cover.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, x+326pp, printed wrappers. SIGNED by contributor Maggi Payne at one of her contributions. Thick fifth issue of this important seventies literary magazine focused on African-American culture and history. Internally clean copy with light outer wear. Signed by Author(s).