Paperback Procession: The 'Soul Cinema' Edition, Part 1

This post is dedicated to all the Brothers and Sisters
who had enough of the Man.

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

by Melvin Van Peebles

Lancer, 1971

Screenplay w/ making-of, b&w photos

The Making of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

by Melvin Van Peebles

Lancer, 1972

Same as above but with different cover and title

Shelia

by Gunard Solberg

Avon, 1970

Blurb: “Soon to be a major motion picture”

Film released in 1971 as HONKY

Shaft

by Ernest Tidyman

Bantam, 1971

Movie tie-in with 2 different covers

Shaft's Big Score

by Ernest Tidyman

Bantam, 1972

Novelization

Slaughter

by Henry Clement

Curtis, 1972

Novelization

Slaughter's Big Rip-Off

by Abel Kane

Curtis, 1973

Novelization

Trouble Man
by John D.F. Black
Dell, 1972
Novelization

The Spook Who Sat By the Door

by Sam Greenlee

Bantam, 1973

Movie tie-in

Cleopatra Jones

by Ron Goulart

Warner Paperback Library, 1973

Novelization

Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold

by Ron Goulart

Warner Paperback Library, 1975

Novelization

Super Fly

by Philip Fenty

[actually Leonore Fleischer]

Ballantine, 1972

Novelization with b&w photos

Coffy

by Paul Fairman

Lancer, 1973

Novelization

The Book of Numbers

by Robert Deane Pharr

Avon, 1973

Movie tie-in

That Man Bolt!

by Peter Crowcroft

Pocket, 1974

Novelization

Together Brothers

by Jim Robinson

Award, 1974

Novelization

Black Starlet

by Bobbye B. Vance

Holloway House, 1975

Novelization with b&w photos
and 2 different covers

The Black Gestapo

by Joseph Nazel

Holloway House, 1975

Novelization with b&w photos

Mandingo

by Kyle Onstott

Fawcett Crest, ca. 1975

Movie tie-in

Drum

by Kyle Onstott

Fawcett Crest, 1976

Movie tie-in

Greased Lightning

by Kenneth Vose and Lawrence DuKore

Warner, 1977

Novelization

Foxtrap

by Joe Nazel

Holloway House, 1986

Novelization with b&w photos