Four Books by LeRoi Jones, One Signed

(4) volumes, all 8vo, to include:


LeRoi Jones. Blues People: Negro Music in White America. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1965. First UK edition. Hardcover in photographic jacket. (Light rubbing to spine ends, stamp on free endpaper, toning to paper; unclipped jacket with some age and handling wear.)

LeRoi Jones. Black Music. New York: Quill, [1967]. First Quill edition with full number line. Inscribed and signed by Jones as Amiri Baraka on the half-title. Paperback in pictorial wraps. (Some wear and toning to wraps, writing in ink on inside front cover, mild staining to page edges, minor spot of grime on final page, otherwise a pristine interior.)

LeRoi Jones. Tales. New York: Grove Press, [1968]. Stated "First Evergreen Edition 1968." Hardcover in photographic jacket. (Minor wear to spine ends, light staining and grime to page edges, one page with a small area of finger grime, otherwise extremely clean interior; jacket price clipped with some shelf wear, grime, and large areas of damp staining heaviest on back cover.)

Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones). The Motion of History & Other Plays. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1978. Stated First Edition. Hardcover in pictorial jacket. (Boards with some sunning to edges and spine, marking to joints, gutter cracking before the title page otherwise a beautiful interior; in unclipped jacket with mild shelf wear.)

Largest 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.

From a Private North Carolina Collection