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9780870231148 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, June 1, 1972, cover price $8.00

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Private investigator Papa La Bas tries to put an end to the psychological stress threatening human life

Hardcover:

9780394491882, titled "The Last Days of Louisiana Red" | Random House Inc, September 1, 1974, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Private investigator Papa La Bas tries to put an end to the psychological stress threatening human life

Paperback:

9781564782366, titled "The Last Days of Louisiana Red" | Dalkey Archive Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $11.95
9780689707315, titled "The Last Days of Louisiana Red" | Reissue edition (Atheneum, March 1, 1989), cover price $8.95
9780380007363 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, July 1, 1983), cover price $3.50 | also contains Mejora tu ritmo / Pace Yourself: La Esperada Continuacion De Cambia De Ritmo

Paperback:

9780931676000 | Yardbird Pub Co, June 1, 1977, cover price $4.95

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Black and beautiful Loop Garoo Kid performs lariat tricks in a circus, but when they arrive in Yellow Back Radio, they're surprised to find all the adults have been run out of town by the children (view table of contents)

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9781564782380 | Dalkey Archive Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $11.95
9780689708138 | Atheneum, March 1, 1989, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Black and beautiful Loop Garoo Kid performs lariat tricks in a circus, but when they arrive in Yellow Back Radio, they're surprised to find all the adults have been run out of town by the children
9780380017515 | Avon Books, September 1, 1977, cover price $1.95 | also contains Nothing Holy About It: The Zen of Being Just Who You Are | About this edition: “Folks.

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9780380326495 | Avon Books, October 1, 1977, cover price $1.75

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A collection of poetry, plays, graphics and short stories that are multicultured, inventive, and imaginative
By Ishmael Reed (editor) and Al Young (editor)

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9780394501598 | Grove Pr, February 1, 1979, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A collection of poetry, plays, graphics and short stories that are multicultured, inventive, and imaginative

Paperback:

9780394170411 | Grove Pr, September 1, 1978, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A collection of poetry, plays, graphics and short stories that are multicultured, inventive, and imaginative

Hardcover:

9780883570579 | Nok Pub Intl, October 1, 1978, cover price $11.95

Paperback:

9780883570586 | Nok Pub Intl, October 1, 1978, cover price $4.95

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By Ishmael Reed (editor)

Hardcover:

9780931676031 | Yardbird Pub Co, December 1, 1979, cover price $15.00

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9780931676055 | Bookpeople, June 1, 1981, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Book by

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When a 'Boss' tries to buy the exclusive rights to Santa Claus--the 'Bosses' being already in possession of Government and Religion--St. Nicholas, in league with his medieval partner Black Peter, unleashes a whirlwind of havoc and confusion

Hardcover:

9780312791995 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1982, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: When a 'Boss' tries to buy the exclusive rights to Santa Claus--the 'Bosses' being already in possession of Government and Religion--St.

Paperback:

9781564782267 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $11.95
9780689707278 | Reissue edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, June 1, 1988), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: When a 'Boss' tries to buy the exclusive rights to Santa Claus--the 'Bosses' being already in possession of Government and Religion--St.

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Supported by powerful director Jim Minsk and preeminent playwright Jack Brashford, Ian Ball, a Black southern playwright hated by theater feminists, hopes to redeem himself with a play in which women have all the good parts

Hardcover:

9780312665807 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, March 1, 1986), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Supported by powerful director Jim Minsk and preeminent playwright Jack Brashford, Ian Ball, a Black southern playwright hated by theater feminists, hopes to redeem himself with a play in which women have all the good parts

Paperback:

9781564782373 | Dalkey Archive Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $11.50
9780689707285 | Macmillan Pub Co, July 1, 1988, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Supported by powerful director Jim Minsk and preeminent playwright Jack Brashford, Ian Ball, a Black southern playwright hated by theater feminists, hopes to redeem himself with a play in which women have all the good parts

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Hardcover:

9780917453076 | Small Pr Distribution, April 1, 1986, cover price $14.00

Paperback:

9780917453069 | Reissue edition (Bamberger Books, September 1, 1988), cover price $7.00

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By Ishmael Reed and Al Young (editor)

Paperback:

9780931676093 | Reed & Cannon Co, January 1, 1987, cover price $7.95

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A collection of editorials, book reviews, and essays by the noted and often controversial author features his views on 'The Color Purple,' a critique of '1984,' and a study of the dramatist, August Wilson

Hardcover:

9780689119750 | Atheneum, July 1, 1988, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of editorials, book reviews, and essays by the noted and often controversial author features his views on 'The Color Purple,' a critique of '1984,' and a study of the dramatist, August Wilson

Paperback:

9780689707346 | Reprint edition (Atheneum, April 1, 1991), cover price $9.95

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Poems deal with urban life, gangsters, dreams, religion, the Black experience, music, myth, politics, and history

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9780689120039 | Atheneum, December 1, 1988, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with urban life, gangsters, dreams, religion, the Black experience, music, myth, politics, and history

Paperback:

9780689120046 | Atheneum, October 1, 1989, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with urban life, gangsters, dreams, religion, the Black experience, music, myth, politics, and history

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Bukka Doopeyduk, a liberal, idealistic young Black, battles the Elks, hippies, cops, and Black Muslims who dwell in the self-destructing kingdom of Harry Sam

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9780689707322 | Macmillan Pub Co, January 1, 1989, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Bukka Doopeyduk, a liberal, idealistic young Black, battles the Elks, hippies, cops, and Black Muslims who dwell in the self-destructing kingdom of Harry Sam

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A comically surreal, bitingly ironic account of the Civil War as seen by three runaway slaves illuminates the political consciences of both blacks and whites through a mixture of history, fantasy, and today's political realities. Reprint. NYT.

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9780684847504 | Reprint edition (Scribner, June 1, 1998), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A comically surreal, bitingly ironic account of the Civil War as seen by three runaway slaves illuminates the political consciences of both blacks and whites through a mixture of history, fantasy, and today's political realities.
9780689707339 | Reprint edition (Atheneum, September 1, 1989), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Arthur Swille politicizes, patronizes, and frets on his plantation in Swin'erd, Virginia, while his runaway slave, Raven Quickskill gives poetry readings and abolitionist lectures in Emancipation City, prompting his fellow fugitives to anger, fear, bravery, and betrayal

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Essays deal with Black American art, popular heroes, literature, music, and Mardi Gras

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9780689707292 | Atheneum, November 1, 1989, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Essays deal with Black American art, popular heroes, literature, music, and Mardi Gras

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The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s

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9780060916497 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 1990), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s

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Depicts a futuristic America where a lame-duck president leaves office and the White House devises a plan to get rid of surplus citizens

Paperback:

9781564782243 | Dalkey Archive Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $11.95
9780689121166 | Reprint edition (Atheneum, April 1, 1991), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Depicts a futuristic America where a lame-duck president leaves office and the White House devises a plan to get rid of surplus citizens

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Presents a decade's worth of work by such writers as James Welch, Kay Boyle, Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, Sandra Cisneros, and Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn

Hardcover:

9780393030556 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1992, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Presents a decade's worth of work by such writers as James Welch, Kay Boyle, Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, Sandra Cisneros, and Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn

Paperback:

9780393308327 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents a decade's worth of work by such writers as James Welch, Kay Boyle, Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, Sandra Cisneros, and Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn

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Collects the poetry from the last decade of American Book Awards that best reflects the multicultural interests and accomplishments in American literature

Hardcover:

9780393030563 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1992, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Collects the poetry from the last decade of American Book Awards that best reflects the multicultural interests and accomplishments in American literature

Paperback:

9780393308334 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Collects the poetry from the last decade of American Book Awards that best reflects the multicultural interests and accomplishments in American literature

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Benjamin 'Chappie: Puttbutt, an African-American professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London University, suddenly finds himself the academic dean of the school and, drunk with power, sets out to even old scores. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780689120725 | Atheneum, February 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Chappie Puttbutt, a Black professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London University, finds himself the head of his department and, drunk with power, sets out to settle old scores

Paperback:

9780140255850 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 1996), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Chappie Puttbutt, a Black professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London University, finds himself the head of his department and, drunk with power, sets out to settle old scores

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Paperback:

9780935061536 | Contemporary Research Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $10.95

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