Africa: A Glance at an Amazing Continent
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [CHILDREN] ZAREEF, Ayanna
Oakland: Awareness Productions, [n.d. but ca.1980's]. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm); illustrated wrapers, stapled; [ii],34pp; illus. A few tiny rubbed spots on wrappers, else Fine. Educational coloring book, each page with accompanying text, compiled by 16 year old Ayanna Zareef, a student at the Arts School in Oakland, California. "This project was pursued with the objective of stimulating the young mind with the awareness of a great and amazing continent." Uncommon; not found in OCLC.
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Strategies For Freedom: The Changing Patterns of Black Protest
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] RUSTIN, Bayard
New York: Columbia University Press, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); dark brown cloth, with titles stamped in pale yellow on spine; dustjacket; [xii],[2],3-82pp, with eight inserted pages of photographic illustrations. A few faint spots of discoloration to cloth along upper and lower edges, and some ink underlining and marginalia scattered throughout the first chapter; Very Good. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with some mild surface wear and a short tear at lower front panel; Very Good+. Authoritative analysis of... Read More
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Distinguished Negroes Abroad
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] FLEMING, Beatrice Jackson and Marion Jackson Pryde
Washington DC: The Associated Publishers, 1946. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; viii,[3],4-272pp; illus. Some faint, whitish staining to base of spine, rubber-stamp of an old secondary school at upper front pastedown, else clean throughout; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.65), shelfworn, with loss to base of spine, some corresponding faint staining to lower spine panel, neat split along lower front joint, with several nicks, tears, and... Read More
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The Civil Rights Movement in Tennnessee; A Narrative History
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] LOVETT, Bobby L.
Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's original black cloth titled in yellow to the spine. Dustjacket. [xxv]; 483pp. Some very light wear to spine ends and extremities, in a dustjacket with some very slight marginal wear and creasing. A very good, bright copy indeed. Internally clean, some light soiling to the fore-edge. One of Lovett's intentions in this work, the first to specifically provide a reference for civil rights developments in Tennessee,... Read More
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The World Needs
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [POETRY] JACKSON, Booker T.
Fort Smith, AR: South and West, Inc, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 40pp. Touch of oxidation to staples, mild wear and dustiness to wrapper extremities; Near Fine. The native Arkansas poet's second book, a collection of uplifting Afro-centric poems chiefly gathered from various literary magazines. Contents deal with issues of race, family, militancy, music, and brotherhood. Fewer than 20 copies in OCLC.
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Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] GIBBS, M.W. [Mifflin Wistar]; WASHINGTON, Booker T. (introduction)
Washington, DC: Privately Published, 1902. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.25cm); vertically-ribbed blue cloth titled in gilt, with a blind-ruled border and decorations on front cover; floral endpapers; [iii],iv-xvi,[3]-372,[2]pp, with portrait frontispiece of the author and 38 plates of illustrations (halftones). Light wear to lower board edges, front endpaper neatly detached but present, with an old, very faint splash mark to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. A lively account of the life and times of Mifflin... Read More
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![Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/771/333/1631333771.0.l.jpg)
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] PURNELL, Brian
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (23.5cm); grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; x,353,[9]pp; illus. Generically inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "Brooklyn, represent! / Brian Purnell." Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with some trivial external wear. A study of the Brooklyn chapter of CORE, founded in the summer of 1960, that "immediately became a leader in the fight against northern forms of Jim... Read More
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![Blue Monday [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/735/971/1567971735.0.l.jpg)
Blue Monday [Review Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [POETRY] FORBES, Calvin
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1974. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (20.75cm); light gray cloth, with titles stamped in black and blue on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-63,[1]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $6.00), with some light rubbing to spine ends and along the left edge of the front panel. The Newark, NJ author's first book-length collection of poems, most of which first appeared in the pages of... Read More
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The History of My Life and Work: Autobiography
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] LATTA, M.L. (Morgan London); WOODSON, Carter G. and Frederick E. Drinker (contributors)
Raleigh, NC: Rev. M.L. Latta, 1903 [but 1924]. Revised and Expanded Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); dark green cloth titled in gilt on spine, with titles stamped in gilt on front cover within a brown double-ruled border; [viii],[31]-600pp, with a portrait frontispiece of Frederick Douglass and five inserted plates of illustrations (halftones); text is complete, despite the eccentric pagination. Darkening to spine, some wear to extremities and softening to corners, bit of dust-soil to covers, with rear hinge cracked (but holding)... Read More
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The Absent Man: The Narrative Craft of Charles W. Chesnutt
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] DUNCAN, Charles
Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxii,214,[4]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, with some pinpoint wear to extremities. "The first book-length study to explore the impact of Charles Chesnutt's sophisticated, innovative narrative..." (from front flap).
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A Business Career
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] CHESNUTT, Charles W.
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); beige paper-covered boards and brown cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in copper on spine and front cover; xviii,218,[4]pp. Publisher's ISBN sticker on rear cover, else Fine. First printing of one of Chesnutt's "white-life" novels, which were left behind in manuscript at the time of his death. Set in a fictitious Midwestern city, the novel is a melodramatic tale centered around the romance of an older man and a... Read More
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A Giant in the Earth": A Biography of Dr. J.B. Boddie
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] BODDIE, Charles Emerson (text); POWELL, SR., Adam Clayton (foreword)
Berne, IN: The Berne Witness Company, 1944. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); royal blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [4],5-194,[2]pp; illus. Previous owners name (in pencil) to front pastedown, upper right corner of front board gently tapped (though still sharp), else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), shelfworn, gently spine-sunned and lightly dust-soiled overall, with a few tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases; Very Good or better. Biography of... Read More
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![Statistical Atlas of Southern Counties: Listing and Analysis of Socio-Economic Indices of 1104 Southern Counties [Johnson's Copy, With His Bookplate Designed by Aaron Douglas]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/726/257/1622257726.0.l.jpg)
Statistical Atlas of Southern Counties: Listing and Analysis of Socio-Economic Indices of 1104 Southern Counties [Johnson's Copy, With His Bookplate Designed by Aaron Douglas]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] JOHNSON, Charles S[purgeon]. (text); EMBREE, Edwin R. (preface)
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Small quarto (26cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; xii,355,[1]pp. Johnson's own copy, with his pictorial bookplate designed by Aaron Douglas (printed in black on cream wove paper, measuring 4.25" x 3") mounted to front pastedown. Modest external wear, a few faint scuffs to covers, mild dust-soil to text edges, with some softening and minute board exposure to corner tips; contents clean; Very... Read More
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Evers [Signed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] EVERS, Charles
New York & Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [iv],v-xii,196pp. Signed by the author opposite the title page. Subtle tanning to text edges, some foxing to cloth and upper edge of textblock, though internally clean; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with some trivial external wear, and a corresponding faint trace of foxing to verso; Near Fine. Memoir of Charles Evers (1922-2020),... Read More
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An Exemplary Citizen: Letters of Charles W. Chesnutt, 1906-1932
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] CHESNUTT, Charles W. (letters); CRISLER, Jesse S., et al. (editors)
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; xxxvi,328,[4]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, with some trivial external wear. An extensively annotated volume collecting letters written by Chesnutt during the last third of his life, with a preface and lengthy introduction by the editors.
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La Croisade De Lee Gordon (Lonely Crusade)
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] HIMES, Chester (novel); WRIGHT, Richard (preface); MALARTIC, Yves (translation)
Paris: Corrêa, 1952. First French Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); original printed wrappers; [7],8-384,[4]pp. Light wear to extremities and base of spine, with a tiny tear and attendant crease at right edge of front wrapper; page untrimmed; Near Fine, lacking the scarce pictorial dustjacket. First French edition of Himes's second book, issued the same year as his emigration from the U.S. to Paris. Originally published as Lonely Crusade by Knopf in 1947. A penetrating and subtle left-wing (but intensely... Read More
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Homecookin': Five Plays
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] GOSS, Clay
Washington DC: Howard University Press, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-101,[1]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $6.95), with light wear to extremities, a few small closed tears and attendant creases. First five plays by the former playwright-in-residence at Howard University, . 87300.
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Manchild in the Promised Land
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] BROWN, Claude
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1966. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); dark brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-415,[1]pp. A few tiny indentations to lower board edges, faint foxing to upper and right edge of textblock, with a few faint spots to endpapers; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, showing modest shelfwear, dust-soil, scattered foxing, a few tears (one of them tape-mended), and a faint damp mark to rear flap... Read More
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![Stars At Your Fingertips: Selected Sermons, Meditations, Prayers of Martin Luther Harvey [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/823/583/1360583823.0.l.jpg)
Stars At Your Fingertips: Selected Sermons, Meditations, Prayers of Martin Luther Harvey [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] HARVEY, Claire Collins and Fran Eward (editors and compilers)
[Richmond, IN: Paul Graphics, Inc.], 1977. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [viii],188,[4]pp; illus. Signed by editor and compiler Claire Collins Harvey on the title page, dated 11/22/79, with her Jackson, MS address, and inscribed by her on the half-title page: "For Bobbie / In memory of your loving marriage with Rev. Divers / Claire / 11/79." Light wear to extremities, touch of soil to rear wrapper, else Near Fine. Collection of sermons by Harvey (1911-1976), an A.M.E.... Read More
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Swallow the Lake
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [POETRY] MAJOR, Clarence
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1970. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (20.75cm); gray cloth, with titles stamped in black and blue on spine; dustjacket; 64pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.00), with some light foxing to spine and right edge of front panel. The author's first poetry collection from a mainstream publisher, and third book, following a novel and his influential 1969 anthology The New Black Poetry. BLOCKSON 6516.
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Tomorrow, Night Will Come Again: A Novel
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [LITERATURE] JACKSON, Clyde Owen
Hicksville, NJ: Exposition Press, [1977]. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 95pp. Very slightly ex-library with deaccession rubberstamp of Emory University to front pastedown, just a hint of shelf wear, else Very Good or better. African-American author's self-published novel, "The story of a lonely spinster who found love, after all..." At the time of publication the author was a manager for the United States Postal Service in Houston, Texas. Quite uncommon: OCLC... Read More
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Silver Rights
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN] [CIVIL RIGHTS] CURRY, Constance
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1995. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. Publisher's white linen spine over light blue paper covered boards, titled in black to spine. Dustjacket. [xxvii], 258pp. Very light soiling to the white cloth spine and some minor bumping and wear to extremities, in a clean, bright example of the dustjacket, a very good copy indeed. Internally clean. Black endpapers. Inscribed to the half title by Constance Curry and the Carter Family; Mae Bertha Carter, Beverley Carter,... Read More
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Love...for Adults Only
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [POETRY] BATEMAN, Constance
New York: Vantage Press, [1976]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in pink pictorial dust jacket; [10],34pp. Jacket spine a bit faded, some light foxing to extremities, else Near Fine. Love poetry by California-based African American author and registered nurse. OCLC locates 5 copies only (NYU, Illinois, Southern Mississippi, Radford, and Farleigh Dickinson).
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![My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/812/990/1457990812.0.l.jpg)
My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. [Review Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] KING, Coretta Scott
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's promotional photograph of the author laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); cream cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine, with the author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; xii,372pp, with 16 pages of photographic plates bound at center. Base of spine gently nudged, one foxed spot on front cover, with some mild dust-soil and a few small scuffs... Read More
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![Down The Line: Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/744/825/1683825744.0.l.jpg)
Down The Line: Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] RUSTIN, Bayard (text); WOODWARD, C. Vann (introduction)
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); sandy grey paper-covered boards and brick red cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine and in maroon on front cover; dustjacket; xviii,[4],5-355,[3]pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Sandy and Ed, In respect to Kirine and Emily who have help like few others "to let my people go" / Love / Bayard Rustin." Some foxing and dust-soil to backstrip and covers, though clean internally;... Read More
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