New York: Grove Press, 1978. SIGNED first edition - An anthology of short stories, poetry, interviews, graphics and essays selected from five years of the "Yardbird Reader." SIGNED by SIX authors: by both editors, Ishmael Reed and Al Young, on the title page and by Lawson Fusao Inada at his poem 'Something for Yardbird'; Shawn Wong at "All in the Night Without Food" ; by Cecil Brown at his play "The African Shades" and by Mei Mei Berssenbrugge at the poem 'For the Tails of Comets.' Among the contributors are Calvin Hernton, Ntozake Shange, Calude Brown, James D. Houston, Lawson Fusao Inada, Leslie Silko, Mei Mei Berssenbrugge, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman, Jack Micheline, Simon Ortiz and many more. 288 pgs. ISBN: 0-394-170415.