Lisa Rosset

Coretta Scott King

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Author

A biography of an American author noted for his books on racial conflict in the United States.

James Baldwin

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Eight people become entangled in a web of interpersonal relationships, doomed to become as savage and destructive as the society which oppresses them

Another Country

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California

While his family struggles with guilt, bitterness, and spiritual issues, John Grimes experiences a religious conversion in the Temple of the Fire Baptised.

Go Tell It on the Mountain

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New, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fiction.

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Georgia

The James Baldwin Collection

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Maryland

Colorado

Stories

Contains eight short fiction stories about men and women who are struggling in their own ways to survive the traumas of life.

Going to Meet the Man

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Florida

This book by James Baldwin features 50 short (2-3 page) stories of famous persons. Most of the stories are true, a few are fiction. Baldwin's book is a great way to introduce important historical figures and a love of history to children. A great book to read out loud, it is one that will keep the entire family interested. There are stories about King Alfred the Great, Socrates, Cincinnatis, Napoleon crossing the Alps, Casablanca, Mignon, and the list goes on. A fascinating read, and this edition has black and white pictures, too.

Fifty Famous Stories Retold

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Michigan

Nevada

Reissued Edition

One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the murder of twenty-eight black children in Atlanta to offer this searing indictment of the nation's racial stagnation.

This edition of James Baldwin's classic work offers a new foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell), and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985.

In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980. Examining this incident with a reporter's skill and an essayist's insight, he notes the significance of Atlanta as the site of these brutal killings--a city that claimed to be "too busy to hate"--and the permeation of race throughout the case: the black administration in Atlanta; the murdered black children; and Wayne Williams, the black man tried for the crimes.

Rummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us a moment in history where it is terrifying to to be a black child in white America, and where, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about "justice for all." Baldwin takes a time-specific event and makes it timeless: The Evidence of Things Not Seen offers an incisive look at race in America through a lens at once disturbing and profoundly revealing.

The Evidence of Things Not Seen

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Kansas

The powerful evocation of a childhood in Harlem that helped to galvanize the early days of the civil rights movement examines the deep consequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic. Reissue. 20,000 first printing.

The Fire Next Time

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Texas

"Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncerain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions -- affection, despair, and hope."--Page 4 of cover

If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In)

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Ohio

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A major work of American literature that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war.

At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable.

For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. 

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is overpowering in its vitality and extravagant in the intensity of its feeling.

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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Louisiana

When a pregnant Tish's boyfriend Fonny, a sculptor, is wrongfully jailed for the rape of a Puerto Rican woman, their families unite to prove the charge false. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

If Beale Street Could Talk

A plea and a warning to citizens to examine the actual state of America after a century of emancipation.

Dell Paperback book. Pencil on 30 pages or so

The fire next time by James Baldwin

Very rare first edition in excellent condition. Highly collectible. 

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