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GIOVANNI, Nikki (b. 1943). Those Who Ride the Night Winds. New York: William Morrow, 1983. 8vo. Publisher’s white cloth backstrip over orange boards, spine lettered in gilt (spine toned, some rubbing, marginal toning to boards, text wrinkled, with a few pages with paperclip indentations at top margin); original printed dust jacket (price-clipped, some sunning to spine and fore-edges, some rubbing, toning, soiling). FIRST EDITION. INSCRIBED BY GIOVANNI to actress Etta M. Barnett on the title-page: “For Etta M. Barnett-with affection I guide [?] regards Nikki Giovanni 18 Jan 1983 Cincinnati”. The recipient is a prominent actress and the wife of Claude A. Barnett. This is from the library of Claude Albert Barnett (1889-1967), the founder of the Associated Negro Press, with his bookplate on the fp. From the collection of the Barnett family.