Imamu Amiri Baraka
The Black Nationalist Period
1965-1974 |  |
An exhibition of works from the Collections of the John Hay Library, Brown University.
Items indicated with an asterisk * are part of the exhibition.
 | Black Nationalist Period: 1965 - 1974 | |
In-formation. *
New York, N.Y. : Totem Press, 1965-
Dace Ee4
"Black revolutionary newspaper." Edited and partially written by LeRoi Jones, whose name appears among "Staff" (p. 8).
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
A controversy of poets; an anthology of contemporary American poetry.
Edited by Paris Leary and Robert Kelly.
Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books [1965]
Dace B18. First edition.
Includes Hegeland an autobiographical sketch (first book publications) by LeRoi Jones.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
New American story.
Edited by Donald M. Allen and Robert Creeley. With an introduction by Warren Tallman.
New York, Grove Press [1965]
Dace B19
Includes The Heretics by LeRoi Jones
John D. Rockefeller Library
The best plays of 1964-1965.
Edited by Otis L. Gurnsey, jr.
New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1965
Dace B20.
Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Hirschfeld. Includes a condensed version of The Toiletby LeRoi Jones.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Afro-American Festival of the Arts magazine, August, 1966.
Now appearing articles by LeRoi Jones, Ed Spriggs, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Joe White, Yusef Inman, Ben Caldwell, and others.
[Newark? N.J., 1966]
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Home; social essays. *
LeRoi Jones.
New York, Morrow, 1966.
Third printing, February, 1968.
John D. Rockefeller Library
Home : social essays.
By LeRoi Jones.
1st Ecco edition.
Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1998.
John D. Rockefeller Library
Black art. *
LeRoi Jones.
[Newark, N.J.] : Jihad, 1966.
Dace A9a. First edition.
"These poems are taken from a volume called Black art,which is one of three volumes of the work entitled Black magic,poems 1961-66, which will appear in 1967". Two copies.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Black art.
By LeRoi Jones.
[Newark, N.J.] : Jihad Productions, [1967], c1966.
Dace A9b. Second edition.
Poems taken from the author's Black magic, poems, 1961-66.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
East Side review. A magazine of contemporary culture. *
Vol. 1, no. 1. January/February 1966.
New York, New York.
Dace C215
Includes: Experimental death unit onea new play, by LeRoi Jones
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Davis, John Preston, ed.
The American Negro reference book..
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1966]
Dace B21. Copyright date listed as 1966.
Includes Blues, jazz, and the Negro by LeRoi Jones
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Hill, Herbert, ed.
Anger, and beyond: the Negro writer in the United States..
New York, Harper & Row [1966]
Dace B22. First edition.
Includes Philistinism and the Negro writerby LeRoi Jones.
John D. Rockefeller Library.
Slave ship, an historical pageant. *
LeRoi Jones.
[Newark, N. J. : Jihad, 1967]
Dace A10a. First edition.
Duplicated typescript with caption-title.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Slave ship : a one act play. *
By LeRoi Jones.
Newark, N. J. : Jihad Productions, c1969.
Dace A10b. Second edition.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
A traffic of love. *
By LeRoi Jones
Pleasant Valley, N.Y. : Kriya Press of Sri Ram Ashrama, 1967.
Dace Eb5. Number 28 of 100 copies.
Harris Broadsides Collection
A poem for black hearts.
Detroit, Michigan : Broadside Press, 1967, 1965.
Detroit Broadside Press Broadside Series ; no. 7.
Dace Eb6
"Reprinted from Negro Digest, Sept. 1965."
Harris Broadsides Collection
The baptism & The toilet. *
By LeRoi Jones.
New York, Grove Press [1967, c1966]
Evergreen playscript, no. 10.
Dace A11a. First edition; 2 copies.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Arm yourself, or harm yourself! A message of self-defense to Black men! A one act play. *
By LeRoi Jones
[Newark, N.J.] Jihad Publication [1967?]
Dace A12
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Tales. *
By LeRoi Jones
New York, Grove Press [1967]
Dace A13. First printing
John D. Rockefeller Library
Tales.
By LeRoi Jones
New York, Grove Press [1968, c1967]
An Evergreen book, E-469. "First Evergreen edition 1968."
John D. Rockefeller Library
Black music. *
By LeRoi Jones
New York: William Morrow, 1967.
Dace A14a. First printing
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Black music.
By LeRoi Jones
New York, W. Morrow, 1967.
Orwig Music Library
Black music.
By LeRoi Jones.
New York : W. Morrow, 1968.
Apollo editions, A-185.
Orwig Music Library
Black music.
By LeRoi Jones.
New York, W. Morrow [1973, c1967]
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
The new writing in the U.S.A.
Edited by Donald Allen and Robert Creeley.
Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1967.
Writing today series.
Dace B23.
Includes Crow Janeand Dutchman.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
For Malcolm; poems on the life and the death of Malcolm X.
Edited by Dudley Randall and Margaret G. Burroughs. Preface and eulogy by Ossie Davis.
Detroit, Broadside Press, 1967.
Dace B25. First edition.
Includes A poem for black hearts,by LeRoi Jones.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Henderson, David
Felix of the silent forest.
Introduction by LeRoi Jones.
New York, The Poets Press, 1967.
Dace B26
Hardcover edition is one of 25 hand bound autographed copies; both copies autographed by the author on the occasion of his visit to Brown University, May 8, 1981.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
The Black Power revolt; a collection of essays.
Edited by Floyd B. Barbour.
Boston, Porter Sargent, c1968.
Extending horizons books.
Dace B27a. First edition
Includes The need for a cultural base to civilrites and bpower mooments,by LeRoi Jones.
John D. Rockefeller Library
War poems.
Edited by Diane Di Prima.
New York : The Poets Press, Inc. [1968]
Dace B28
Includes Black people!(first book publication) and other poems by LeRoi Jones
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
The American literary anthology.
v. 1-3; 1968-1970;
New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968-
Dace B29
Vol. 1, 1968, includes Citizen Cainby LeRoi Jones
John D. Rockefeller Library
Best short plays of the world theatre 1958-1967.
Edited with an introduction and prefaces to the plays by Stanley Richards.
New York, Crown Publishers [1968]
Dace B30
Includes Great goodness of life (A coon show) by LeRoi Jones.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Black fire; an anthology of Afro-American writing. *
Edited by LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal.
New York, Morrow, 1968.
Dace B31. First printing.
Although literary selections are signed "LeRoi Jones," the foreword is signed "Ameer Baraha" (sic).
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Dark symphony: Negro literature in America.
Edited by James A. Emanuel and Theodore L. Gross.
New York, Free Press [c1968]
Dace B32
First printing of both hardcover and paperbound issues.
Includes Preface to a twenty volume suicide note, A poem for black hearts, andJitterbug (first book publication) by LeRoi Jones.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays. Paperbound copy: From the Library of Abraham Chapman
Black magic: Sabotage, Target study, Black art; collected poetry, 1961-1967. *
By LeRoi Jones.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1969]
Dace A15. First printing.
Paperback edition and hardbound edition.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Four Black revolutionary plays, all praises to the Black man. *
LeRoi Jones.
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1969]
Dace A16. First hardbound and paperback printings.
Introduction signed "Ameer Baraka".
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Four Black revolutionary plays.
By Amiri Baraka, with a foreword by Lindsay Barrett.
New York : Marion Boyars, 1998.
"First published in the United States in 1969 by the Bob[b]s-Merrill Company Inc."
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Short speech to my friends. *
By LeRoi Jones.
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1969.
Dace Eb7. First British edition.
"New Year Greeting, January 1969 for friends of L.A. Wallrich. Designed & printed at Cape Goliard Press, London."
Harris Broadsides Collection
Neal, Larry
Black boogaloo; notes on black liberation.
San Francisco] Journal of Black Poetry Press [c1969]
Dace B33. First edition, second printing
Introduction by LeRoi Jones.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Black arts; an anthology of Black creations.
Edited by Ahmed Alhamisi and Harun Kofi Wangara. With an introduction by Keorapetse Kgositsile.
Detroit, Black Arts Publications, 1969.
Dace B34. First edition.
Includes Study peace,by Ameer Baraka.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Bullins, Ed. comp.
New plays from the Black theatre; an anthology.
New York, Bantam Books [1969]
Dace B35
Includes The death of Malcolm Xby LeRoi Jones.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Answers in progress. *
By Amiri Baraka
[Newark, N.J.] : Jihad Productions, 1969.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Black poetry. A supplement to anthologies which exclude black poets. *
Edited by Dudley Randall.
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969.
Dace D37
First edition, first printing.
Includes A poem for black hearts, Black art, and
The world is full of remarkable things by LeRoi Jones.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Jello. *
By Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Chicago: Third World Press, [1970]
Dace A18.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
It's nation time. *
Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Chicago, Third World Press [c1970]
Dace A19. First printing.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
In our terribleness (some elements and meaning in Black style) . *
[By] Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Fundi (Billy Abernathy)
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1970]
Dace A20. First printing.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
A Black quartet; four new Black plays.
By Ben Caldwell [and others] With an introduction by Clayton Riley.
[New York] New American Library [c1970]
A Signet book, Y4388.
Includes Great goodness of life, by LeRoi Jones.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
In World War 3 even your Muse will get killed! *
By Amiri Baraka.
[New York? : s.n., 197-?]
Harris Broadsides Collection
Black drama anthology.
Edited by Woodie King and Ron Milner.
New York : Columbia University Press, 1972.
Includes: Junkies are full of (SHHH....) ; Bloodrites.by Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Spirit reach. *
By Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Newark, N.J., Jihad Productions, 1972]
First edition
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Black Spirits : a festival of new Black poets in America. *
Edited by Woodie King, with artistic consultant, Imamu Amiri Baraka; foreword by Nikki Giovanni; introduction by Don L. Lee.
New York: Vintage Books, c. 1972.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays. From the Library of Abraham Chapman
Owens, Rochelle. comp.
Spontaneous combustion: eight new American plays. *
New York, Winter House [1972]
The Winter repertory, WE6.
Includes Ba-ra-kaBy Imamu Amiri Baraka.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Afrikan revolution : a poem. *
By Imamu Amiri Baraka
New Ark [Newark], N.J. : Jihad Pub. Co., 1973.
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
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