Fiction from Blackbird Infoshop

A gorgeous first edition, first printing of the Englsih translation by Mat Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed of Palestinian novelist and poet Ibrahim Nasrallah's first novel, Prairies of Fever. Black cloth boards and silver gilt lettering in glossy dustjacket, near fine. Full number line. Listed by the Guardian as one of the 10 most important novels of the Arab world, the… Read more about this item

A first edition, first printing of Sonia Sanchez' scarce anthology of Black American fiction, centering Black arts luminaries including John Henrik Clarke, Toni Cade Bambara, Ted Joans, Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, Sam Greelea, Alice Walker, Dudley Randall and more. Warmly inscribed in 1979 by Sonia Sanchez on front endpaper. small bookstore stamp inside. Fair condition, cover bright, pages clean, and… Read more about this item

First edition/ First Printing. J.B. Lippincott Co, 1939. 309pps. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth with bold black titling, little fading or wear to covers, without dustjacket. Spine tight. No ownership marks or interior marks, no foxing, pages gorgeous, but some wear to front and back inside covers where dustjacket was previously affixed, with a faint doubling of the jacket panel… Read more about this item

A gorgeous first US edition of Lessing's seminal feminist novel about writer Anna Wulf and her disillusionment with the Communist Party. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962 First American edition. $5.95 to unclipped dust jacket. In gorgeous mustard yellow boards with black titling and a very good dustjacket with one small marking and some agewear. Red textblock. First American Edition.… Read more about this item

A gorgeous VG+ first printing of the first American edition of Arundhati Roy's seminal first novel, the God of Small Things, winner of the Booker Prize. Warmly inscribed on the half-title by Roy "For Stefanos, with love, Arundhati Roy." 321 pp. Octavo. Gorgeous embossed grey paper-covered boards with green cloth spine with silver gilt titling. Light staining to top of… Read more about this item