Judy Collins & Rosa Parks 1984
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY] [PHOTOGRAPHY] GORDON, Richard (1945-2012)
[Chicago: Richard Gordon, c. 1984]. Original silver-gelatin print on matte photographic paper. Image area 8" x 12", on 11" x 14" sheet. Titled in ink in lower left margin; signed in ink lower right beneath image. Fine, unfaded print in a hinged gallery mat. A lovely profile portrait of Parks in conversation with American folk singer and activist Judy Collins. Likely from the 1984 Candace Award ceremony, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Candace Award... Read More
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The Slave: or, Memoirs of Archy Moore
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SLAVERY & ABOLITION] [HILDRETH, Richard]
Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1846. Sixth Edition. Two volumes bound in one; small octavo (20cm.); publisher's embossed cloth, titled in gilt on spine,123,[1],115pp. Slight rubbing and wear to cloth, heavier at board corners and with small loss at crown of spine; text tight and unmarked but moderately foxed; sound and Good. Contemporary ownership signature ("Lucia A Haynes") to front free endpaper. A popular and much-reprinted anti-slavery novel, though its sensational portrayal of an incestuous triangle between the protagonist... Read More
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The Republican Party and Black America From McKinley to Hoover 1896-1933
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] SHERMAN, Richard B.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; no jacket; 274pp; includes footnotes. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Clean, crisp and textually unmarked copy in very good or better condition.
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American Hunger
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] WRIGHT, Richard (novel); FABRE, Michel (afterword)
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); dark blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xii],146,[2]pp. Two tiny scuffs to lower edge of front board, tiny sticker shadow to upper front endpaper; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), lightly edgeworn and a little dust-soiled, with a small abrasion to lower left corner of front panel; Very Good+. A posthumously-published novel, meant to be a continuation of Black Boy. With... Read More
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![Black Boy (Jeunesse Noire) [Inscribed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/998/097/1474097998.0.l.jpg)
Black Boy (Jeunesse Noire) [Inscribed to Maurice Merleau-Ponty]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE] WRIGHT, Richard (novel); DUHAMEL, Marcel and Andrée R. Picard (translation)
Paris: Gallimard, 1947. First French Edition. First Impression, a review copy, with S.P. printed at upper left corner of rear wrapper. Octavo (20.75cm); original printed wrappers and publisher's glassine overlay; [13],14-264,[4]pp. Inscribed by Wright on the half-title page to French philosopher and intellectual Maurice Merleau-Ponty, above a brief inscription by translator Marcel Duhamel. Slight forward lean, some light wear and handling, with a tiny chip to base of spine, and the usual tanning to text edges, with some tiny... Read More
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Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] CAYTON, Horace R. and St. Clair Drake (text); WRIGHT, Richard (introcuction)
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); russet cloth, blocked and titled in dark brown and beige on spine; dustjacket; xxxiv,[2]-809,[3]pp, with publisher's errata slip tipped onto front hinge. Some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, spine ends nudged, upper corners gently bumped (but still sharp), with a faint dampstain to heel; contents clean; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.00), worn, spine-sunned, with losses to spine ends and corners, numerous tears and... Read More
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![Grace Notes: Poems [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/376/139/1495139376.0.l.jpg)
Grace Notes: Poems [Review Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [POETRY] DOVE, Rita
New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1989. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with two pages of publisher's publicity sheets and a promotional photograph of the author laid in. Octavo (21.75cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and silver on spine; dustjacket; xiv,73,[1]pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $16.95). Sharp copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's fourth book of poems.
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American Smooth: Poems
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] DOVE, Rita
New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2004. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (21cm); pictorial card wrappers; [14],143,[1]pp. A Fine, unread copy.
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![From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/507/309/1572309507.0.l.jpg)
From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] KING, Robert Hillary
Oakland: PM Press, 2009. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-217,[7]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "4/1/10 - To: Louise...Robert H. King." Crown gently nudged, else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $24.95), with some trivial wear to extremities. Memoir by King (b.1942), who in 1970 was convicted of a crime he did not commit, and was sentenced to 35 years in... Read More
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James Shepherd Pike: Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] DURDEN, Robert Franklin
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1978. Reprint. Octavo. Cloth boards; 249pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a sharp, unmarked copy, lightly soiled on covers.
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The Black Scholar: The Black Male Vol. 2, no 10. (June 1971)
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] STAPLES, Robert, George JACKSON and Charles WATKINS
Sausalito, CA: Black World Foundation, 1971. First Edition. Small quarto (26cm); original pictorial card wrappers; 64pp. Light rubbing and soiling to wrappers; address label on rear wrapper; contents clean, complete; Very Good. This issue includes "The Myth of the Impotent Black Male" by Robert Staples; "Simple: The Alter Ego of Langston Hughes" by Charles A. Watkins; and "Struggle and the Black Man" by George Jackson. 87233.
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Sanctions Against Rhodesia
by [AFRICA] SUTCLIFFE, Robert B.
London: Africa Bureau, 1966. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); stapled wrappers; 12pp. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. "The overwhelmingly important question in the Rhodesian crisis is now Rhodesia's vulnerability to economic sanctions. It is difficult to be exact in economic terms; we can only make rough estimates. It is even more difficult to say what the political effect of the economic damage may be. It is important to appreciate as accurately as possible the economic effects; the final... Read More
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The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research - Vol.2, No.4 (December, 1970)
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] CHRISMAN, Robert (editor); DU BOIS, Shirley Graham, Adam Clayton Powell, and Hayward Henry, Jr., et al. (contributors)
San Francisco: The Black World Foundation, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (26cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 63,[1]pp; illus. Light wear and handling to wrappers, with a few small scuffs and spots to same, and a contemporary mailing label to upper rear cover; Very Good+. Contents include contributions by Andrew Billingsley, Calvin B. Marshall III, Sister M. Martin de Porres Grey, Hayward Henry, Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, A. Cecil Williams, and Shirley Graham Du Bois.
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Singers in the Dawn: A Brief Anthology of American Negro Poetry
by [AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE] ELEAZER, Robert B.
Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, (1943). Later Printing. Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; 24pp. Minor external soil; Very Good. Seventh edition, dated 1943 (first published 1934). Anthology of African-American poets, including Wheatley, Dunbar, Du Bois, and others.
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![Curling: A Novel [Uncorrected Proof Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/848/020/1412020848.0.l.jpg)
Curling: A Novel [Uncorrected Proof Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] BOLES, Robert
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); publisher's galley sheets, comb-bound into printed covers; pp.1-93a. A few slivers of loss to comb-binding, light wear and toning to wrapper extremities, with some mild dustiness to same; contents clean; Very Good+. Second novel by Boles (1943-2012), a Chicago-born African American author. "Mr. Boles concerns himself with the intellectual Negro's dilemma; those who are not obsessed by racism, yet whose color shadows their life in social situations, in... Read More
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Poster: Romare Bearden, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] BEARDEN, Romare (artist)
New York: American Vision Gallery, 1991. Original illustrated poster, offset printed in colors on white coated stock, measuring 71.25cm x 67.5cm (28" x 26 5/8"). Light wear and handling, a few tiny creases to lower right corner, with a few tiny tears to upper left corner; Near Fine. Poster promoting a show of Bearden's work at the Albright-Knox Gallery, reproducing his 1967 painting "Return of the Prodigal Son." 83076.
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![Hog Butcher [Bound Galley Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/047/584/1360584047.0.l.jpg)
Hog Butcher [Bound Galley Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] FAIR, Ronald L.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1966. First Edition. Quarto (31cm); publisher's galley sheets (rectos), comb-bound into patterned paper covers; [vi],127,[1]pp. Modest wear, creasing, and a few tears to wrappers, touch of dustiness to text edges; Very Good+. The African American author and sculptor's second and best-known book, a tragic coming-of-age novel that served as the basis for Joseph Manduke's 1975 film Cornbread, Earl and Me, starring NBA star Jamaal Wilkes and Laurence Fishburne in his film debut.... Read More
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Breaking Loose: African-Canadian Dance in Southwestern Ontario 1900-1955
by [AFRICAN-CANADIAN HISTORY - DANCE] SHADD, Ruth Ann
Windsor: by the Author, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers; 174pp. Private ownership stamps to bottom edge and fore edge of text block, Else a tight, VG copy with unmarked text. Rather scarce, self-published work by an Afro-Canadian dancer and educator, based on her Master's Thesis at Wayne State University.
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![Black Panthers 1968 [Signed by Kathleen Cleaver]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/752/296/1601296752.0.l.jpg)
Black Panthers 1968 [Signed by Kathleen Cleaver]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] BARUCH, Ruth-Marion and Pirkle Jones (photographs); CLEAVER, Kathleen (introduction)
Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 4,000 copies. Quarto (31cm); black cloth, with titles embossed on spine; dustjacket; [144]pp; illus. Signed by Kathleen Cleaver on the title page, dated July 30, 2010. Base of spine gently nudged, crown gently bumped, else Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket.
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The 51% Minority: An Address by Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) Delivered at the Conference on Women's Employment
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [WOMEN] CHISHOLM, Shirley
Pittsburgh: Know, Inc, [1970]. Slim octavo (21.5cm); pale yellow printed wrappers; [i],7pp. Mild toning to extremities, with contemporary pencil price at upper right corner of front wrapper; Near Fine. Full text of the lecture Chisholm delivered at the Conference on Women's Employment in Chicago, Illinois, on January 24, 1970, an event sponsored by the Chicago chapter of NOW. Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005), a New York City Democratic Congresswoman, was the first major-party Black candidate to run for President of the... Read More
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The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research - Vol.5, No.6 (March, 1974)
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] CHRISMAN, Robert (editor); DU BOIS, Shirley Graham, S.E. Anderson, and Fania Davis Jordan, et al. (contributors)
Sausalito, CA: Black World Foundation, 1974. First Edition. Small quarto (25.75cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [1]-64pp. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, original postal label on rear cover; contents clean; Very Good+. Contents include contributions by S.E. Anderson, J. Herman Blake, Lenneal J. Henderson, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Juanita Jackson, and others. 87234.
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South Africa, Apartheid and Britain
by [SOUTH AFRICA]
London: LRD Publications Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.25cm); stapled wrappers; 20pp. Light wear to extremities, else Fine. A pamphlet, jointly published by the Labor Research Department and African National Congress (South Africa), addressing the following questions: "What in fact does apartheid mean in human terms? How does it affect the different race groups in South Africa? And which are the British firms involved?" (p.3).
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Apartheid: The Facts
by [SOUTH AFRICA]
London: International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, 1983. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 112pp; illus. Minor external wear; Near Fine and unmarked. Detailed cultural history of South African apartheid, well-illustrated and replete with statistical and ethnographic data.
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Gatherings; The History and Activities of the Emerson Street YMCA Branch
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN] [CIVIL RIGHTS] WEST, Stan (Editor)
Evanston, Illinois: Shorefront Press, 2004. First Edition. Quarto. 25.5cm. Publisher's limp card wraps titled in black. [ix] 77pp. Minimal wear, internally clean, a near fine copy. An illustrated history of the Evanston YMCA branch that became an historic informal hub and gathering place for the African American population from its inception in 1914 to its eventual closing in 1969. Shorefront was a publishing and archival endeavor built from the ground up by, and for, the African American... Read More
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The Black Panthers
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] Shames, Stephen (photographs); SEALE, Bobby (foreword); Jones, Charles E. (essay)
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (26.75cm); photo-illustrated boards; [7],8-151,[1]pp; illus. Trivial dustiness to rear cover, base of spine and upper rear board corner a bit nudged; Near Fine. An extensive collection of previously-unpublished photographs by Stephen Shames, whose involvement with the Black Panther Party began while he was a student at UC Berkeley and actively involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement. He developed close friendship with Bobby Seale allowed him unusual access to Panther... Read More
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