Report from Part Two (Signed)
Chicago: Third World Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing (stated). Hardcover. Octavo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 170 pp. Inscribed, signed, and dated in blue ink by author on half title page in year of publication. Unclipped original dust jacket. Publisher’s original blue cloth-covered boards. Author’s initials gilt-stamped on front board; title, author, and publisher gilt-stamped on spine. Unclipped original blue dust jacket with black lettering in silver fields, gold ruling around title field. Portrait of author on back panel drawn by Raymond Brooks. Afterword by D.H. Melhem. A hint of foxing to top edge of text block and two minute white spots near top edge of front board, else Fine. Dust jacket shows faintest rubbing and one very slight score to back panel, else Fine. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover. Second autobiographical volume of personal memories and musings of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Laureate of Illinois (succeeding the first Poet Laureate, Carl Sandburg) who became the first Black U.S. Poet Laureate and the first Black woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Scarce signed first edition. Fine / Fine. Item #296
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