9780805012668 | Henry Holt & Co, August 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: At once personal and political, this novel about being Black and male in white America depicts an unyielding core of individual resistance and demonstrates with tragic immediacy how America's mixed signals foster false hopes

9780618509645 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, January 26, 2005), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: At once personal and political, this novel about being black and male in white America depicts an unyielding core of individual resistance and demonstrates with tragic immediacy how America's mixed signals foster false hopes.

9780679736509 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1991), cover price $12.00

9780805003758 | Henry Holt & Co, October 1, 1987, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: An aging, highly intelligent black lawyer who lives in a cluttered trailer is the go-between for the poor blacks of Homewood who must deal with the authorities downtown

9780140105957 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1988), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: An aging, highly intelligent black lawyer who lives in a cluttered trailer is the go-between for the poor blacks of Homewood who must deal with the authorities downtown

9780805281880 | Reprint edition (Not Applicable, February 1, 1985), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of Brother Tate, a Black albino who, after the death of his son, refuses to speak for twenty years

9780395877296 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, April 15, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Lucy and Carl struggle to prevent the extinction of the Black community of Homewood and to keep alive the musical heritage of the blues piano player, Albert Wilkes

9780679720294 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 1988), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Tells the story of Brother Tate, a Black albino who, after the death of his son, refuses to speak for twenty years

9781556441363 | Amer Audio Prose Library Inc, June 1, 1987, cover price $13.95

9780679407195 | Pantheon Books, June 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Stories feature individuals from all walks of life who reside in Homewood, a Black section of Pittsburgh

9780395857304 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A young woman mourning the deaths of her husband and sons, victims of urban violence, Kassima finds redemption in a love affair with the gentle Robert Jones and in a collection of photographs, taken by her late, eccentric tenant, that document a half-century of African American history

9780618001859 | Mariner Books, September 30, 1999, cover price $15.95

9781501147289 | Scribner, November 15, 2016, cover price $25.00