The Women and the Men

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A hardcover first edition of The Women and the Men by Nikki Giovanni. The volume has the original paper dust jacket with black and white cover artwork by James Barkley depicting the faces of five individuals surrounding an image of the continent of Africa. In the background is a horizon line with a body of water, trees, and a setting sun. The author’s name appears in a beige band at the top in black letters: [Nikki Giovanni] with the title underneath in white text: [The Women / and / the Men] with [POEMS] in yellow. The back of the dust jacket has a full-page black-and-white photograph portrait of Giovanni. The front pastedown has a summary of the book and a brief biography of the author; the back pastedown has blurbs from published reviews of Giovanni’s other works. The hardcover book has book cloth on the spine and yellow paper covered boards.

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