Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(LITERATURE.) Group of 3 posters produced by Amiri Baraka's Jihad Productions. Each about 22 x 17 inches; moderate wear including a 5-inch closed tear to "Answers in Progress," soiling and a puncture to "Where Beauty's At," and folds to all three. Newark, NJ: Jihad Productions, 1969
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The poet LeRoi Jones (soon to become Amiri Baraka) founded Jihad Productions in 1967 to release music and poetry. This lot includes three rare Jihad posters: Answers in Progress, featuring a 1967 Baraka poem, printed in 1969 Where Beauty's At, featuring a Clarence Reed poem, 1969 Black Warrior's Pledge, featuring text by Balozi Zayd, 1969. with--an illustrated 1994 poster featuring "Heathens" and other recent poems by Baraka, from the Heaven Poster Series #9, signed by Baraka: "A Baraka 95 Free Mumia Abu Jamal!" 10 x 22 inches.