![Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/010/171/1653171010.0.l.jpg)
Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] CARMICHAEL, Stokely (AKA Kwame Ture)
New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, titled in copper on spine, with pictorial elements embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; xxii,229,[5]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front pastedown: "To Brother Dan Johnson / Only solution for us / a unified socialist Afrika / Kwame Ture / [Stokely Carmichael]. Touch of offsetting to gutter at front endpaper, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $6.95), with some gentle sunning to spine.... Read More
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![Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America [Inscribed by Both Authors]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/747/825/1683825747.0.l.jpg)
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America [Inscribed by Both Authors]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] CARMICHAEL, Stokely (AKA Kwame Ture) and Charles V. Hamilton
New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); bluish-grey paper-covered boards and turquoise cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and authors initials embossed onto front cover; light blue topstain; dustjacket; [4],xvi,198,[6]pp. Inscribed by Carmichael on the front pastedown: "To my Brother James / Afrika will be free / unified + socialist / Kwame Ture / Thank You." Additionally inscribed by Hamilton on the title page: "In the struggle / Charles V. Hamilton." Light... Read More
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![Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr [Signed by All Three Contributors]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/766/333/1631333766.0.l.jpg)
Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr [Signed by All Three Contributors]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] DURR, Virginia Foster (memoir); TERKEL, Studs (foreword); BARNARD, Hollinger F. (editor)
[Tuscalooosa]: University of Alabama Press, 1985. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); dark grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,[3],4-360,[4]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper ("To Sam Pointer / Virginia Foster Durr"), and signed directly beneath by editor Hollinger F. Barnard, and author Studs Terkel, who wrote the foreword. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with a hint of sunning to spine, and some trivial wear to extremities. Autobiography... Read More
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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: an Anthology of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] ERENRICH, Susie
Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1999. First Edition. First printing. Quarto; pictorial glossy card wrappers (softcover, as issued); 543pp; illus. Mild corner-creasing and wear to covers; internally clean, complete, and unmarked; Very Good+. Anthology of writings from participants in the Civil Rights struggles of the Sixties; contributors include Julian Bond, Guy and Candie Carawan, Bob Dylan, Myrlie Evers, John Lewis, Bob Moses, Pete Seeger, and many others. Published in partnership with the Cultural Center for Social Change. ... Read More
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![The Beautiful Struggle [Signed in the Month of Publication]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/418/573/1561573418.0.l.jpg)
The Beautiful Struggle [Signed in the Month of Publication]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] COATES, Ta-Nehisi
New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white and sage green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xii],227,[1]pp. Signed on the title page in the month of publication, dated 5/27/08." While not explicitly marked as such, this copy comes from the library of Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez, who has highlighted passages on 30 pages. Base of spine gently nudged; Very Good+ in a Near Fine,... Read More
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![Cohesion [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/046/090/1631090046.0.l.jpg)
Cohesion [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [VIETNAM WAR] WILLIAMS, Thomas D.
New York: Vantage Press, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [iv],203,[1]pp. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "17 October 1986 / To Joe - Remember me, gal? I'm one of those fortunate birds who barely got through Josiah Cox's class. Now is that taking you back - or what!! Memories can also be memorable. Sometimes all we have to do is slow down and reflect.... Read More
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![Sketches of African Scenery, from Zanzibar to the Victoria Nyanza [Association Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/729/276/1609276729.0.l.jpg)
Sketches of African Scenery, from Zanzibar to the Victoria Nyanza [Association Copy]
by [AFRICA - UGANDA] [JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT] O'NEILL, Thomas
London: Church Missionary House, 1878. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm). Tan paper wrappers printed in red and green; 15,[1]pp; one page of publisher's ads at rear; 19 color lithographic plates on 10 leaves, relief map, one additional in-text wood engraving. Presentation inscription to front: "Presented to Brodie of Brodie by J. A. Grant 15 Oct 78." Slightly rubbed with minor external dustsoil, sewing perished but complete and neat, with occasional interior toning, else a well-preserved copy: Very Good.... Read More
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Le Lumme: A Dramatic Sketch on Political Predicaments
by [AFRICA] MOSHAPELA, Tjotjela
Mazenod, Baphatlalats: The Social Centre, [nd, 1965]. Quarto (25cm); thin cloth backstrip over illustrated tan wrappers, titled in black; 28pp.; minor corner bend; small spot of discoloration; Very Good+ or better. South African play, written in Sesotho language [southern Bantu].
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Daydreamers
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] FEELINGS, Tom (illustrations); GREENFIELD, Eloise (poem)
New York: The Dial Press, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (27.5cm); tan paper and brown cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; unpaged; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket (priced $9.95 at upper front flap, with lower corner of same clipped), with light shelfwear and a short tear with attendant crease to upper edge of rear panel. Attractive collaborative work for children, coupling Greenfield's poem with the work of African American painter and cartoonist... Read More
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The Jazz-Me Blues
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [JAZZ & BLUES] DELANEY, Tom
New York: Palmetto Music Pub. Co, 1921. First Edition. Slim quarto (30.5cm); original pictorial wrappers; 6pp. Moderate wear, handling, and dust-soil to wrappers, some creases and edge-tears, with inner spine-fold archivally reinforced, with a patch of paper tape remnant to upper end of same; complete, Good to Very Good. One of the earliest hits by African American songwriter and composer Thomas Henry Delaney (1889-1963). Born in Charleston, SC, he would eventually become one of the most popular jazz... Read More
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Sula
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] MORRISON, Toni
London: Allen Lane, 1974. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); orange paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[3],4-174,[2]pp. Base of spine a bit pushed, faint foxing to text edges and endpapers; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £2.00 net), with light wear to extremities, faint foxing on verso, and a faint sticker shadow over the printed price on the lower front flap; Near Fine, with the spine color notably unfaded. A pleasing... Read More
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It Has Happened Here
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] BLOSSOM, Virgil T.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. First Edition. First Printing, with "First Edition" and the publisher's "D-I" code on copyright page. Octavo (21.75cm); red and black cloth-covered boards, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv,209,[1]pp. Crown gently nudged, light wear to lower board edges and upper corners, with some faint foxing to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.95), shelfworn, gently spine-sunned, with several tears, attendant creases,... Read More
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Broadside: "Notice: To those who really want to help the New Haven Nine; TRASHING WON'T HELP!
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] [NEW HAVEN 9] PERRY, Wade and Gerald Allen
[New Haven: S.i., 1970]. Original broadside, with text offset printed in black on white bond, measuring 8.5" x 11". Old horizontal and vertical folds smoothed-out, some handling, dust-soil, and faint foxing; Very Good+. A crudely-designed broadside created by Wade Perry and Gerald Allen, both students at Yale's School of Architecture during the trial of the New Haven Nine. The broadside, clearly aimed to circulate among the throngs of protestors converging upon the Yale campus and surrounding region, called for... Read More
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Black Vibrations: Community Newsletter for the Center for Black Studies - Vol.III, No.3 (November, 1972)
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] SANDERS, Wanda J. (editor)
Santa Barbara: Center for Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); black and white offset printed sheets, stapled at upper left corner; 6pp. Faint horizontal fold at center, postal markings on terminal leaf, with some mild handling, and discrete staple holes at left edge; Very Good+. Newsletter produced by UC Santa Barbara's Center for Black Studies, detailing community and campus events, minority recruitment at UC Davis Law School, the Afro-American Conference, a tutoring program for black... Read More
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] DU BOIS, W.E.B. (text); WEINBERG, Meyer (editor)
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine, and author's name embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; xviii,471,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), with light wear to extremities and a faint crease along the lower edge of the front panel; Near Fine. An extensive collection of Du Bois's writings, with over ninety percent of the... Read More
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The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races - Vol.11, Nos.1 & 2 (November and December, 1915)
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] DU BOIS, W.E.B. (editor)
New York: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1915. First Editions. Two octavo issues bound into one volume (25.25cm); plain black library cloth, with title and call number stamped in white on spine and upper front cover; patterned endpapers with the crest of the Library of Congress; [3],4-50,[2]; [53-55],56-102,[2]pp; illus. A Library of Congress Duplicate copy, so stamped on the front endpaper. Exterior very lightly dusty; contents complete, with original wrappers bound in; wrappers lightly dust-soiled,... Read More
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![A Different Drummer [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/537/022/1629022537.0.l.jpg)
A Different Drummer [Review Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KELLEY, William Melvin
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); black pebbled boards and pale grey cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xii],223,[5]pp. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with just a hint of sunning to spine; Near Fine. An attractive copy of the New York author's first novel, an exploration of the Great Migration, which addresses the hypothesis of what... Read More
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Knock On Any Door
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] MOTLEY, Willard
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc, 1947. First Edition. First Printing, with (1) following final paragraph. Octavo (22cm); gray cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in dark purple on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-503,[1]pp. Tiny indentation to upper front board edge, some trivial dustiness to pastedowns, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), lightly edgeworn, with several tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases, with light dust-soil to rear panel, and a few tiny numbers scribbled... Read More
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The Underground Rail Road. A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-breadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their Efforts for Freedom, as Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] STILL, William
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, Publishers, 1872. First Edition. Thick octavo (24.5cm); variant bound in the publisher's paneled-style brown pebbled cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; dark brown clay-coated endpapers; all edges gilt; 4pp.ads, [iv],780,[2]pp, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Still and 43 plates of illustrations. Modest rubbing to the binding, wear and shallow loss to heel, with gentle sunning and biopredation to spine, resulting in some erosion to the cloth; a few... Read More
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A Documentary History of Slavery in North America
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] ROSE, Willie Lee (editor & commentary)
New York: Oxford University Press, Inc, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); brown cloth-covered board, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xvi],[2],3-537,[7]pp. Small 1.5" scratch to upper front pastedown, else Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $19.95) with some rubbing at flap folds, and creasing and closed tears along extremities; Very Good+. With over one hundred sources, including letters, fugitive slave narratives, songs, legal cases, and petitions, "the collection paints a portrait of slavery as it... Read More
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The Underground Rail Road. A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-breadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their Efforts for Freedom, as Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] STILL, William
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, Publishers, 1872. First Edition. Thick octavo (24.5cm); variant in the publisher's terracotta fine English cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dark brown clay-coated endpapers; 4pp.ads, [iv],780,[2]pp, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Still and 43 plates of illustrations. Gently spine-sunned, spine ends pushed and a bit worn, minute board exposure to corners, some light surface wear and dust-soil to cloth, with some partial cracks to front hinge, and a... Read More
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Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [POETRY] KOMUNYAKAA, Yusef
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; xviii,446pp. Mild wear, a few tiny bumps to rear joint, with a price-sticker to rear wrapper; Near Fine. Substantial volume of poems by the Louisiana-born Pulitzer Prize winner, touching on the Black experience, Southern life during the Civil Rights era, and his experiences in the Vietnam War.
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![Yohannes IV of Ethiopia: A Political Biography [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/851/010/1516010851.0.l.jpg)
Yohannes IV of Ethiopia: A Political Biography [Inscribed]
by [AFRICA] [ETHIOPIA] GABRE-SELLASSIE, Zewde
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,334,[4]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to J. Wayne Fredericks, the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1961-67): "To Wayne and Anne / A simple token of a sincere appreciation of friendship / Zwede / Xmas 1978." Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket... Read More
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] HURSTON, Zora Neale (letters); KAPLAN, Carla (editor)
New York: Doubleday, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); off-white and dark brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,880pp; illus. Spine ends a bit nudged, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $40.00), with some corresponding wear to spine ends and along the upper edge; Near Fine. A landmark gathering of letters by Hurston, collected and edited by Hurston scholar Carla Kaplan, with a foreword by Hurston biographer Robert Hemenway,... Read More
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Peacework: New England Peace Movement Newsletter #52 (April, 1977)
by [A.F.S.C.]
Cambridge, MA: American Friends Service Committee, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (27cm); black and white photo-illustrated wrappers; 16pp. A few small corner creases smoothed out, else Near Fine. An earlier issue of one of the longest-running journals on peace and justice in the U.S. Founded in 1972 and rooted in Quaker values, Peacework focused on "Global Thought and Local Action for Nonviolent Social Change." A good portion of the contents is dedicated to the planned non-violent occupation of Seabrook Nuclear... Read More
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