The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service, 1967-1980
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] HILLIARD, David
New York: Atria Books, 2007. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28cm); original glossy pictorial card wrappers; xxiv,152pp; illus.; with supplementary DVD housed in a plastic sleeve, mounted to the inner rear wrapper. Some trivial surface wear, else Fine. Richly illustrated volume by a founding member and former chief of staff of the Black Panther Party, issued to mark the 40th anniversary of the Party's long-running newspaper. With a preface by Hilliard, and essays by Craig L. Rice, Kumasi, Elaine... Read More
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This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] HILLIARD, David and Lewis Cole
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black and red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,450pp, with 8 pages of photographic plates bound at center. Tight, clean, Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $24.95), crisp and clean, Near Fine. Memoir of the former Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, beginning with his childhood in 1940s Alabama and covering his... Read More
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The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death
by [AFRICA - EXPLORATION] LIVINGSTONE, David; Horace Waller
London: John Murray, 1874. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Two volumes in purple cloth, stamped in gilt on front and spine; brown coated endpapers; xvi,360,6pp;[viii],346,20pp; 6pp publisher's catalogue at rear of vol. I, 20pp catalogue in vol. II; frontispieces, 3 lithographic facsimiles of leaves from Livingstone's journal, 17 full-page wood-engraved plates, 24 in-text wood engravings, color folding map in vol. II, large color folding map in pocket at rear of vol. I. Ex-library, with marks of spine labels,... Read More
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The Bounty [Inscribed to Quincy Troupe]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] WALCOTT, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997. First Edition. Dark blue paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 78 pp. Inscribed by the Nobel Prize-winning poet to Quincy [Troupe] and his wife Margaret in San Diego where Troupe taught at the time, dated and signed "Derek". The title poem a long elegy for his mother, most are about St. Lucia his birthplace. With blurbs by fellow Nobel Prize-winners Brodsky and Heaney. Light bumping to head and tail of the spine,... Read More
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Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] HUDSON, Winson and Constance Curry (text); BELL, Derrick (foreword)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; xxvi,150pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with some light surface wear, a faint scratch to rear panel, and a tiny stain to base of spine. Memoir of African American civil rights worker Winsome Hudson, a native of Harmony, Mississippi, who with her sister Dovie filed the first lawsuit to desegregate public schools in their area.... Read More
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Don't Cry, Scream
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [POETRY] LEE, Don L.
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers, stapled; 64pp. Light wear to extremities, a few faint creases to front wrapper, with a faint patch of soil to lower rear wrapper; contents clean; Very Good or better. The Black Arts poet's third book, featuring 25 poems, a preface by the author, and an introduction by Gwendolyn Brooks. BLOCKSON 5163.
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Roll, Jordan, Roll
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] PETERKIN, Julia (text); ULMANN, Doris (photographs)
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First Trade Edition. First Printing, preceded by a limited edition of 350 copies. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; 251pp; illustrated with 70 full-page photographs by Doris Ulmann. Hint of sunning to spine ends, some trivial wear to corner tips, with a tiny splash mark to topstain; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50), gently spine-sunned, modest wear to joints and extremities, with... Read More
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The Chickenbone Special
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] WALLS, Dwayne
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (26cm). Staple-bound pictorial wrappers; 44pp; illus. Clean, Near Fine copy. Issued as no. 2 in the S.R.C. Leadership series. Somewhat uncommon SRC pamphlet, adapted from a feature story describing the northward migration of southern Black families, focused on the Gibson family of Williamsburg County, S.C. The book takes its title from the colloquial name for trains carrying rural laborers out of the south and into northern cities. A... Read More
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Fever Within: the Art of Ronald Lockett
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS] LOCKETT, Ronald; Bernard L. Herman, ed
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; [60]pp plates (unnumbered); 84pp text. Fine. In the original dustwrapper, Fine but for a small bruise at upper margin of front panel; exhibition brochure and separate pamphlet of interviews with the artist laid in. Only monograph devoted to the work of the Alabama-born artist Ronald Lockett; published to accompany the 2015 traveling exhibition of his work.
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Blood on the Forge
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] ATTAWAY, William (novel); MARGOLIES, Edward (introduction)
New York: Collier Books, 1970. First Collier Books Edition. First Printing. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; xviii,237,[1]pp. Light wear to extremities, else very Near Fine. Attaway's second book, and a classic novel of postwar African-American migration, following the lives and careers of three southern brothers in their travels to the industrial North. Highly praised upon publication by the likes of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but long-neglected until a recent reissue by the New York Review of Books. This... Read More
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Nat Turner
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] FONER, Eric (editor)
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1971. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white, brown, and yellow on spine; dustjacket; viii,184pp. Fine in a jacket that's Very Good+ or better, lightly edgeworn, with a hint of sunning to spine, and a small tear with attendant creasing at crown. Part of the publisher's "Great Lives Observed" series.
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Fabulous Congo
by [AFRICA] BELLOTTI, Felice [Trans: SAVILL, Mervyn]
London: Andrew Dakers Ltd, n.d. [1950]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 221pp. Light wear and scuffing to corners and spine ends, sunning to extremities, strong and tight; internally clean, bookplate to verso of front flyleaf, illustrated throughout; in a clean photographic dustkacket with some wear and shallow fraying to the extremities, and a little soiling in places. A very good copy. A detailed and interesting anthropological study of... Read More
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Will You Die With Me? My Life and the Black Panther Party [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] FORBES, Flores A. (memoir); BROWN, Elaine (foreword)
New York: Atria Books, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); black and cream paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,302,[4]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication along the lower margin of the frontispiece: "8/4/06 - To Carl Reddy / Will you die with me? / Flores A. Forbes." Spine ends nudged, lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp); Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $26.00), with modest external wear, and... Read More
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Gladiator Sports Magazine - Vol.1, No.1
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [SPORTS] ANTHONY, Florence
New York: Florence Anthony Enterprises, Inc, 1990. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 80pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, some mild wrinkling to lower rear corners due to moisture; Near Fine. Debut issue of this short-lived sports entertainment magazine established by African American author, editor, and publicity consultant Florence Anthony. Contents include feature articles on Darryl Strawberry, Magic Johnson, Deion Sanders, Butch Lewis, Michael Spinks, George Foreman, and others. OCLC notes a single holding for any issues (LC).... Read More
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Diary of a Sit-In [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] PROUDFOOT, Merrill (text); GRAHAM, Frank P. (foreword)
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1962. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm); grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xvi,204,[4]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To the Johnsons / with warmest regards / Merrill Proudfoot." Light wear to extremities, some fading to spine ends, internally clean; Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.00), edgeworn, with a chip at upper spine panel costing a few letters in the author's name, and... Read More
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The Politics of Massive Resistance
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] WILHOIT, Francis M.
New York: George Braziller, Inc, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 320pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Slight rubbing and wear to jacket; else tight copy in very good jacket with unmarked text.
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American Society and Black Revolution
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] HERCULES, Frank
New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 435pp; 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 clean, sharp, tight copy in clean, VG dustwrapper.
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Travels and Researches Among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern & Central Africa
by [AFRICA] [MOZAMBIQUE] ELTON, Frederic; H. B. Cotterill (ed.)
London: John Murray, 1879. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Full green calf, gilt and blind rules along board edges, spine stamped in gilt, titled on brown spine label; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; xxii,[418]pp; 3 maps (1 with color), frontispiece and 10 relief plates with tissue guards, additional in-text illustrations. Bookplate of the Earls of Derby. Bright and sound, mild edge rubbing, spine dry and rubbed, one tissue guard lacking, else Very Good or better. "The... Read More
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Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] HARRIS, Joel Chandler (stories); CHURCH, Frederick S. and James H. Moser (illustrations)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First Edition. Blanck's first state, with "presumptive" on last line of p.9, and ads on p.[233] beginning with New Books: A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine. Octavo (19.75cm); publisher's powder blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; butterfly-patterned endpapers; [3],4-231,[1] + [8]pp ads. Armorial bookplate of real estate magnate and art collector Edward Hubbard Litchfield (1845-1930) mounted to front pastedown. Spine ends... Read More
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The Wall That Is My Skin: A Poem
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] GOELL, Milton J.; Hall Johnson, fwd
New York: Wendell Malliet and Company, 1945. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pale grey dust jacket printed in maroon; 41pp. A fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50 at lower front panel); very lightly worn with a short closed tear to top edge of upper panel, spine a shade darkened; Near Fine. A book-length cycle of "...Poems Inspired by the Negro's Fight for Democratic Rights," authored by a young Jewish-American lawyer/poet. The... Read More
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In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] HUTCHINSON, George
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black cloth, with tiltes stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,611,[1]pp; illus. The book would be about Fine, but for highlighting to a dozen early pages, along with some light pencil marginalia to same; Very Good+. Dustjacket is Near Fine and unclipped (priced $39.95). The definitive biography of the noted Harlem Renaissance author and Guggenheim Fellow. 86001.
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The Nigger Factory [Inscribed to Gwendolyn Brooks]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] SCOTT-HERON, Gil
Edinburgh: Payback Press, 1996. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, a trade paperback original. Octavo (19.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; xii,237,[7]pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks: "Miss Brooks - Forgive the N..... word, this was written a long time ago. (But I'd say it again) / Gil Scott-Heron (A Chicago Native) 4/97." Trivial wear to extremities, hint of foxing to text edges; very Near Fine. UK edition of Scott-Heron's second... Read More
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The Dragon Has Come" [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] ARMSTRONG, Gregory
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); red cloth, titled in black and yellow on spine; dustjacket; xiv,238,[2]pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "For Harriet / Who lives in me almost as if she were a part of myself / Love always / Gregory." A bit of softening to spine ends, corners gently bumped (though still sharp), with some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped... Read More
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Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] WILSON, Harriet E. (novel); GATES, Henry Louis (introduction)
London: Allison & Busby, 1984. First U.K. Edition (and Second Edition overall). First Impression, cloth issue. Octavo (20.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [2],lx,[vi],140,xxxiii,[3]pp. Early ink gift inscription to a preliminary blank, some of the usual subtle tanning to the text edges, and some scattered foxing to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £8.95 net), showing a hint of sunning to spine, some mild surface wear, and trivial foxing... Read More
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Negro Liberation
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN ART & LITERATURE] [CIVIL RIGHTS] HAYWOOD, Harry [STACHEL, Jack]
New York: Intenational Publishers, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's royal blue cloth titled in red to spine. 245pp. Slightly shaken in its binding, bumped and scufed to spine ends and corners, with some light surface wear and soiling to the boards, the most notable defect is a small, shallow scrap to the fore-edge of the front board, exposing the board beneath the cloth; internally clean and fresh, signed to the front free endpaper by both Haywood, and Jack... Read More
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