Collection: Classics

"This June Jordan treasure is a rare piece of fiction from one of America's most vital poets and political essayists--a tender story of young love...

This thirtieth-anniversary edition of June Jordan’s foundational poetry program guidebook features a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir.If you want...

A beautifully edition of Frederick Douglass’s groundbreaking autobiography, one of the most powerful and enduring works in American literature. Elegantly designed for collectors, students, and...

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The unexpected discovery in 2009 of a completed manuscript of Claude McKay's final novel...

Set in 1904 August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean begins on the eve of Aunt Esther's 287th birthday. When Citizen Barlow comes to her Pittsburgh's Hill District...

The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of...

  LANGSTON HUGHES was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then...

A rip-roaring introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. “[This] Harlem saga...

The book that Walter Kirn said was like "Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis" (The New York Times). - Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A one-volume selection of four novels in the legendary detective series—blistering, groundbreaking capers set in Harlem's criminal underworld—by...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and Gone—Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. “The glow accompanying August Wilson’s...

A pointed satire about a Nigerian on vacation in Europe, into the heart of whitenessFour years ago, a young man named Furo Wariboko woke up...

An inspirational keepsake from the multiple award-winning writer and activistDynamic and legendary, poet and activist Sonia Sanchez is one of the most esteemed poets in...

For fans of the Oscar-winning film American Fiction: the landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?”—featuring an...

The only issue-by-issue, story-by-story history of Spider-Man comics from the wall crawler's first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) to the present. Fully-illustrated with archival images. From...

Howard Zinn's classic account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the most significant and creative organizations to shape the course of the...

The first biography of the celebrated ballet dancer Arthur Mitchell and the iconic dance company he founded, from a renowned dance historian Arthur Mitchell (1934-2018)...

Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read. This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The...

The bestselling Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents trade paperback books, complete with French flaps and deckled edges, together in a premium boxed set--a perfect gift...

Returning to print after nearly 50 years, Survivor completes Octavia E. Butler’s thrilling Patternist series, including a short story from the Patternist saga and new...

Back in Harlem after fleeing the horrors of World War I, Jake has left his past behind--only to find himself drawn into the city's seductive...

A collective work of art whose time has come. Of lasting value for all lovers of literature and the erotic, this is a glorious, groundbreaking...

WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work *Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—“an American novel...

  A Caldecott Honor and Reading Rainbow book, this memorable retelling of Cinderella is perfect for introducing children to the fairy tale as well as...