Search Results: Authors starting with D from Crow Hop Rare Books

New York: Soho Press, 1995. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. SIGNED by Danticat on title page. Krik? Krak! was later a National Book Award nominee. The following year, she was named one of Granta's Best Young Novelists. Near Fine in wraps (a touch of soiling to covers, small ink mark to page edges). Danticat's second book.

New York: Crown, 2002. Uncorrected Proof. Near Fine in pictorial wraps.

[n.p.]: [n.p.], 1978. Translated and Annotated by Donald S. Schier. First Edition. 52 pp. Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket with moderate rubbing and edgewear. INSCRIBED on ffep by the translator, signed “D.S.S.”

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1948. First Edition. VG+ green cloth (slight spine lean, light internal soiling) in a VG unclipped dustjacket (loss at spine edges, light circular stain to front, soiling). Jacket design by A.J. Donnell. Two tales, “Divide and Rule” and “The Stolen Dormouse.” 

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1998. Uncorrected Advance Proof. Near Fine in wraps, with publisher sticker on front cover. A memoir, described as "Out of Africa set in the Venezuelan Andes."

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. Uncorrected Proof of De Teran's first book, a novel. The following year, Granta included her in its list of Best Young British Novelists (a list that included Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, and Salman Rushdie). VG+ in wraps (edgewear), with Cape's publication label affixed to front cover.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. Advance Reader’s Edition (Uncorrected Advance Proofs). Near Fine Softcover. Diaz’s first book, ten stories drawing on his upbringing in the Dominican Republic and New Jersey; some of these stories first appeared in The New Yorker, Story, and The Paris Review. Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007.

Oak Park, IL: The Erie Street Press, 1992. First Edition. Illustrated softcover, 58 pp. VG+ (edgewear). Stanley Kunitz blurb. The author's second book of poetry. INSCRIBED on title page: "For Diana--with best wishes Carol Dine March 2001."

[New York]: Viking/Penguin, 1987. Unrevised and unpublished proofs of his sixth collection of poetry. VG+ in tan wraps with toning and two small stains on front cover and a light colored pencil check on title page. An uncommon proof.

New York: Atheneum, 1972. First Edition. Near Fine in a VG or better dustjacket (fading to spine, crease/wrinkling to front. one closed tear). Winner of The Lamont Poetry Selection for 1971. Author's first book.

Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1985. First Edition. 69 pp. VG+ (toning to spine). The Boston author's first book of poetry, winner of the 1984 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize.

Atlanta: Neighborhood Arts Center, 1977. Cover drawing by Nash. 8.5” x 11” illustrated glossy stapled wraps, 68 pp. Illustrated with art and photographs throughout. VG+ (rubbing, edgewear, crease to rear cover). The second issue of Potlikker (as it was spelled in this issue’s opening “A Message to the People” by Akau Kamau), a journal of creative expression, focusing on Black poetry written by young, gifted, Black poets of Atlanta who explore “the major and minor problems confronting Black/Afrikan people today.” The opening poem, “Words,” by Akua, is dedicated to “Sister Toni Cade Bambara,” who was an artist-in-residence at the Neighborhood Arts Center in the 1970s. Dooley (d. 2006) was an activist and poet who came to Atlanta to run two Black bookstores in Atlanta in 1969 and who published Revolution: A Poem with Third World Press in 1968.No copies in commerce and only 2 holdings per OCLC (Emory, Texas A&M).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. First Edition. Jacket lettering by Samuel Bryant. Drawings by Georges Schreiber (of famous figures on boards and endpapers). VG+ (previous owner’s inscription dated 1962 on ffep) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket with loss at extremities and chipping at spine.

Topsfield, MA: The Perkins Press, 1925. 1 of 95 copies printed on Etruria Hand-Made Paper. VG+, t.e.g., paper label pastedown, 48 pp. with 10 illustrations."A Discourse Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Metropolital Museum of Art in New York CIty, it being one of a Series designed to mark the Opening of the American Wing."

Candia, New Hampshire: John LeBow/Ascensius Press, 1996. One of 150 copies in wrappers (out of a total edition of 476 copies) SIGNED and numbered (#67) by the author, additionally SIGNED by the illustrator Dina Knapp. A light indentation or wrinkle to lower edge.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. Uncorrected Proof. SIGNED by Dufresne on title page. Near Fine glossy illustrated wraps (tiny stain to bottom edge). Dufresne's second novel, set in Massachusetts, about a writer coping with writer's block and marriage problems.

New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition in wraps. VG+ (soiling and light wear each with a touch of rubbing.). A posthumously-published book of nine short stories (including “A Harlem Game,” “Double Nigger,” and “The Crossing”) edited by Eugene B. Redmond, Dumas’s colleague at Southern Illinois University. Dumas “identified with the black power movement during his lifetime [and] was also active in the civil rights movement. At the age of 33, Dumas was shot and killed by a New York City Transit policeman in a case of mistaken identity” (www.poetryfoundation.org). Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye and an editor at Random House at the time of Dumas’s death, championed Dumas’s work, even organizing a book release event “with a glamorous guest list comprising the most renowned black writers of the time,” commenting in an announcement for the book launch party, “in those thirty-three years he had completed work the quality and quantity of which are almost never achieved in several… Read More

New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition in wraps. VG+ (soiling and light wear each with a touch of rubbing.). A posthumously-published book of poetry edited by Eugene B. Redmond, Dumas’s colleague at Southern Illinois University. Dumas “identified with the black power movement during his lifetime [and] was also active in the civil rights movement. At the age of 33, Dumas was shot and killed by a New York City Transit policeman in a case of mistaken identity” (www.poetryfoundation.org). Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye and an editor at Random House at the time of Dumas’s death, championed Dumas’s work, even organizing a book release event “with a glamorous guest list comprising the most renowned black writers of the time,” commenting in an announcement for the book launch party, “in those thirty-three years he had completed work the quality and quantity of which are almost never achieved in several lifetimes" (see the story on Dumas at www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch).

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First American Edition. 192 pp.With 312 illustrations, 68 in color. Near Fine (a touch of soiling to top edge) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (edgewear).A detailed survey of the major works and the artisans who crafted them.

New York: Scribner , 2001. Uncorrected Proof/Special Advance Reader's Copy. SIGNED by Dunning on ffep. Near Fine softcover. 479 pp.