JONES LEROI: (1934-2014) Amiri Baraka. American Poet & Writer whose themes ranged from black liberat...

JONES LEROI: (1934-2014) Amiri Baraka. American Poet & Writer whose themes ranged from black liberat...
JONES LEROI: (1934-2014) Amiri Baraka. American Poet & Writer whose themes ranged from black liberation to white racism. T.L.S., LeRoi Jones, with a holograph addition to the text, one page, 4to, Newark, New Jersey, 3rd September 1969 (''Year of Reconstruction''), to the University Place Bookstore in New York City, on the printed stationery of the Committee for Unified Newark featuring a red ankh over a black raised fist. Jones enquires if his correspondents are able to supply a copy of T. Edward Bowditch's An Essay on the Superstitions, Customs, and Arts Common to the Ancient Egyptians, Abyssinians, & Ashanti, published in Paris in 1821, and asking to be quoted for all volumes by Churchward and Woodward, especially on evolution and religion. At the side of his second request Jones has added the holograph note 'disregard - already received these'. Some light overall creasing and minor age wear and a brief light pencil annotation in an unidentified hand, G