Lot 4196
Two Audre Lorde Titles, Including a Scarce Signed First Edition of The Cancer Journals
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Audre Lorde. THE CANCER JOURNALS. Argyle, New York: Spinsters, Ink, [1980]. Stated first edition. Inscribed on the title page: "To Julie / Audre Lorde." Plain printed yellow wraps. 8vo; 77, [3]pp. Alice Walker praised the book, writing: "Should cancer of the breast be in my future, as it is in the future of thousands of American women each year, Lorde's words of love and wisdom and courage will be beside me to give me strength. The Cancer Journals should be read by every woman who has a breast and especially by those women who do not." (back cover) (8 X 5 1/4 in.) (Wraps with light overall soiling, minor wear to extremities, some toning to cover and spine, and sticker residue on the back; text block extremely clean with just a touch of soiling to edges and minor creasing. Very good.)
Audre Lorde. ZAMI: A NEW SPELLING OF MY NAME. Trumansburg, New York: The Crossing Press, 1983. Part of The Crossing Press Feminist Series; first published by Persephone Press. Softcover in photographic wraps. 8vo; [vi], 256pp. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.) (Some scuffing and creasing to wraps, edges rubbed, with a 1 1/2-in. separation of front cover at tail and back cover with 1/4-in. separation starting at tail; adhesive residue at hinges; light wear to text block. About very good.)
From a Private North Carolina Collection
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was a professor, activist, and the third Poet Laureate of New York. She was the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including the award-winning The Cancer Journals which explores her experience with breast cancer, and Zami: A New Spelling of My Name which she defined as a new genre she called "biomythography." Lorde died from liver cancer in 1992.
