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Published by New York: Scribner, 1995, 1995
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
very good dust-jacket, cover price $12.00, very good black half-cloth with white boards. JORDAN, JUNE. I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky: earthquake/romance. Libretto and lyrics by June Jordan ; music composed by John Adams. New York: Scribner, 1995, later printing number line starting with 3, ending with 2, 95pp., . "Best known as a political activist and an essayist, and hailed by Library Journal as "one of the most important poets today," Jordan has now written the libretto and the lyrics for an American opera. The music is composed by John Adams." "I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky mixes the drama of poetry and song to construct a brilliant earthquake/romance. In the context of the timeless issues of love, the opera, set in South Central Los Angeles, explores such contemporary questions as immigration, birth control, and criminal law. A white cop, a black Baptist minister, and an El Salvadoran mother are among the young Americans cast in this heartfelt portrayal of a day in the life of an LA neighborhood.". 9780684804224 ISBN 0684804220.
Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, 1972
ISBN 10: 0030860245ISBN 13: 9780030860249
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. photos, illustrations, 83p. Original blue boards. dj. 24cm. Jacket has some edge-wear and modest chipping along edges. Cover fading on and along edges. Spotting on top edge of pages. Former owner's name. Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Era discussed by Kenny and Jerome described on the jacket flap as "two young Black boys.".
Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, 1972
ISBN 10: 0030860245ISBN 13: 9780030860249
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. photos, illustrations, 83p. Original blue boards. dj. 24cm. Jacket has some edge-wear and modest chipping along edges. Cover fading around edges. Spotting on top edge of pages. Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Era discussed by Kenny and Jerome described on the jacket flap as "two young Black boys.".
Published by Beacon Press, Boston, 1980
ISBN 10: 0807032182ISBN 13: 9780807032183
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st ed. xxvi, 100p. Original red hardcover binding. dj. 21 cm. Small spot on front cover. Former owner's name on endpaper ("Yvette E. LeRoy"). Poetry.
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1971
ISBN 10: 0690381336ISBN 13: 9780690381337
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st ed. 89p. Original yellow cloth. dj. 21 cm. Cover lightly soiled along edges. Some soiling and browning on back panel and flaps of jacket. Her first novel (written in Black English).
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st ed. index, 145p. Original Boards. dj. 21cm. Minor cover soil. Jacket has a moderate chip on front panel and also has some soiling and browning. INSCRIBED by Jordan on the front free endpaper ("For Yvette Le Roy, Peace and Power to you, June Jordan June 10, 1970"). This was Jordan's second book. Yvette Le Roy, the inscribee, owned Liberty House, a bookshop in Harlem between 1969 and 1979, which offered a place during that decade for a lot of African American authors, probably including June Jordan, to promote their books.