![Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/330/841/1476841330.0.m.jpg)
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] LEWIS, John with Michael D'Orso
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Third Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); light and dark grey paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [5],6-496 + [16]pp of photographs. Inscribed on the half-title page to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez: "To Bob, With faith and hope, keep your eyes on the prize / Best wishes... Read More
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Cannibal Cousins
by [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] [HAITI] CRAIGE, John Houston
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, [1934]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket signed in image by Walter Cole; 304pp. A hint of shelf wear to jacket extremities including tiny loss at top margin of upper panel, spine a bit toned, else Very Good or better. Sensationalist history of Haiti and voodoo,... Read More
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![Government Archives of Southern Rhodesia. Oppenheimer Series [Complete, 9 numbers in 13 vols]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/089/605/1556605089.0.m.jpg)
Government Archives of Southern Rhodesia. Oppenheimer Series [Complete, 9 numbers in 13 vols]
by [AFRICA - COLONIZATION] WALLIS, J. P. R. [ed.]
London: Chatto and Windus, 1945-1956. First Edition. First printings. Large octavos (26cm). 9 titles in 13 volumes, red cloth stamped in gilt, top edges gilt; plain endpapers. Some volumes partially unopened. Generally sound, upright, and clean; light rubbing, fading to some spines; light dampstaining to lower edges and outer corners of 10 volumes, causing fading to cloth and slight... Read More
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Memorial Service for Martin Luther King, Jr. - Stanford University Memorial Church, April 5, 1968, Noon
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KING, JR., Martin Luther
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Memorial Church, 1968. Original double-sided memorial program, text mimeographed in black on white wove bond, measuring 21.5cm x 35.5cm (8.5" x 14"). Three old horizontal folds smoothed out, mild handling, with some subtle toning on verso; Very Good+. Program for a memorial service held at the Stanford University Memorial Church the day after... Read More
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KING, JR., Martin Luther
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1958 [1960]. Early Printing, with publisher's C-K code (March, 1960) on copyright page. Octavo (21cm); black and dark blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in silver on spine and lower front cover; [8],9-230,[2]pp; illus. Crown gently nudged, some very subtle offsetting to pastedowns, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy.... Read More
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![Excerpt from "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" [In] Jewish Currents - Vol.17, No.7 (July-August, 1963)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/464/160/1518160464.0.m.jpg)
Excerpt from "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" [In] Jewish Currents - Vol.17, No.7 (July-August, 1963)
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [CIVIL RIGHTS] KING, JR., Martin Luther (contributor)
New York: Jewish Currents, 1963. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 48pp; illus. Light wear and handling, tiny stain to lower edge of front wrapper; Near Fine. Contents include UN correspondent David Matis's lengthy article "Birmingham Diary: A Reporter's Observations," which contained on-the-ground coverage of the SCLC's Birmingham Campaign. Couched within the article is a full-page... Read More
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The Measure of a Man
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KING, JR., Martin Luther
Philadelphia: The Christian Education Press, 1959. First Edition. Small octavo (15.75cm); sage green cloth, with titles stamped in black on front cover; dustjacket; vi,34pp. Previous owner's neat ink name at upper front endpaper, hint of sunning to spine, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.00), gently spine-sunned, showing very light external wear, with some... Read More
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Tobias Raps
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] STEWART, JR., Tobias
[Macon, GA]: Macon Press Co, 1973. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original white staplebound wrappers; [16]pp. Fine. Scarce, self-published volume of "experience poetry" by the native Atlanta author. Contents deal with issues of health ("Sickle Cell vs. High Blood"), the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. ("A Dream Turned Into a Nightmare?"), violence ("Why Kill Your Brother?"), and contraception... Read More
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![Black In Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr. [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/764/333/1631333764.0.m.jpg)
Black In Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr. [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] CHESTNUT, JR., J.L. and Julia Cass
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); blue paper-covered boards and navy blue cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; xvi,431,[1]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "To Lucky / Her father had the right idea! / J.L. Chestnut Jr. / August 7, 1990." Spine... Read More
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![Unwise and Untimely." A Letter from Eight Alabama Clergymen to Martin Luther King Jr. and his reply to them on order and common sense, the law and justice, nonviolence and love [Letter From Birmingham City Jail]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/836/180/1665180836.0.m.jpg)
Unwise and Untimely." A Letter from Eight Alabama Clergymen to Martin Luther King Jr. and his reply to them on order and common sense, the law and justice, nonviolence and love [Letter From Birmingham City Jail]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KING, JR., Martin Luther, C.C.J. Carpenter, and Joseph A. Durick, et al. (contributors)
Nyack, NY: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1963. Slim, narrow octavo (23cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; [2],3-18,[6]pp. Light wear to extremities, some toning and dust-soil to rear wrapper, with a few tiny nicks and tears; contents clean; Very Good+. A pamphlet produced by the inter-faith peace organization Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), printing the full text of the April 12, 1963 letter... Read More
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![Jackson, Missisippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/954/474/1638474954.0.m.jpg)
Jackson, Missisippi: An American Chronicle of Struggle and Schism [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] SALTER, JR., John R.
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); maroon boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xxii,[2],3-248pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "For John + Mary Hellman / With admiration from several perspectives (including the chicken), and in solidarity / John R. Salter Jr." Light rubbing to spine ends and... Read More
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The Worker - Special Issue (April, 1968)
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.] BLOICE, Carl, Gus Hall, and Bill Steber (contributors)
[New York: S.i.], 1968. First Edition. Bifolium (38cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers; 4pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center, else a fresh, Fine copy. Memorial issue of The Worker, a weekend paper circulated between 1958-1968 after The Daily Worker ceased operations. Released in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, this issue contains an editorial titled "The Dream Is Indestructible,"... Read More
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Letters on Organization
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] JOHNSON, J.R. (pseud. of C.L.R. James)
Detroit: Facing Reality Publishing Committee, [1963]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); mimeographed sheets (rectos), saddle-stitched into yellow mimeographed card covers; 59pp. Light wear and dustiness to covers, ink date to upper right corner of front cover, with subtle toning to text edges; contents clean; Near Fine. A late work from Facing Reality, a small faction of C.L.R. James loyalists... Read More
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Native Education in the Union of South Africa: A Summary of the Commission on Native Education in South Africa - U.G. 53-1951
by [AFRICA] HARTSHORNE, K.B.
Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1953. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); stapled wrappers; 62pp. Light wear and scattered foxing to extremities, some oxidation to staples, else Very Good+. Covers criticisms of the then-current system for native education in South Africa, the aims of Bantu education, proposed schemes for the re-organization of Bantu education, and schemes of educational... Read More
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Memorial of the Teachers of the Academic Faculty to the Board of Trustees, Howard University, Washington, D.C. November 15, 1924
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [EDUCATION] MILLER, Kelly (contributor)
[Washington, D.C.]: S.i., 1924. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm); beige printed wrappers, stapled; 12pp. Pamphlet is vertically folded at center, wrappers dusty, edgeworn, and nearly detached along spine fold; 7 brief passages marked in pencil; Good, complete copy. Summary of details regarding the salary scale for the academic faculty of Howard University, presented to their Board of Trustees. Includes... Read More
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Moral Pedagogy. Reprinted from "Education," November, 1913
by [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] MILLER, Kelly
N.p.: [Washington, D.C.: by the Author], 1913. Offprint. Octavo. Staple-bound self-wrappers; [12]pp. Staples slightly rusty; light marginal soil; Very Good. Scarce offprint, detailing the imnportance of a moral curriculum in higher education, and outlining some possible approaches to its achievement. "Moral pedagogy...can not be stated, at present, in terms of as definite program as can the development of the... Read More
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![C.L.R. James: A Political Biography [Uncorrected Proof Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/010/506/1338506010.0.m.jpg)
C.L.R. James: A Political Biography [Uncorrected Proof Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] WORCESTER, Kent
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. First Edition. Publisher's tape-bound galley. Quarto (28cm); photo-mechanically reproduced galley sheets, bound with teal canvas tape; xvi,296,[1]pp. Holograph corrections (all in copy) throughout text. Crown gently bumped, mild handling and light wear, else Very Good+, with the publisher's review letter folded and laid in. Substantial political biography of James (1901-1989), one... Read More
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] HUGHES, Langston (text); DECARAVA, Roy (photographs)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Small octavo (18cm); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; 98pp; illus. Light dust-soil and edge wear to wrappers, gentle sunning and some moderate wear to spine; contents clean; Very Good. A striking volume, with text by Hughes, brought to life by DeCarava's now iconic black and white... Read More
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Mr. Kelso's Lion
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] BONTEMPS, Arna (story); EBERT, Len (illustrations)
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); original pictorial cloth boards; [8],9-48pp; with black & white illustrations by Len Ebert. Light wear to extremities, with a few spots of foxing to upper edge of inner front cover, and rough erasure to a previous owner's name at upper front endpaper; contents clean; Near... Read More
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Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow [Signed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] LITWACK, Leon F.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Fourth Printing. Octavo (24cm); black paper spine over green paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; xxi,[3],4-599,[1]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftones) on 8 glossy pages. Signed by author on title page. Light shelf-wear, with trace soil to lower edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, designed by Carol Devine Carson,... Read More
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Confrontation: Black and White
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] BENNETT, Lerone Jr.
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc, 1965. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 321pp; includes bibliography. An ex-library reading copy, with typical indications including shelf label, card pocket, and accession stamps. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to jacket; small nicks to upper edges; else textual unmarked copy in good dustjacket.
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Stand Up For Freedom! The Negro People vs. The Smith Act
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] BROWN, Lloyd L.
New York: New Century Publishers, 1952. First Edition. Slim octavo (19cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 16pp. Toning to extremities, oxidation to staples, wrappers showing a few tiny chips, and a neat split down upper half of spine; complete, but only Very Good. "An appeal to American Negroes to defend the Negro communists indicted under the Smith Act. The author,... Read More
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![My Country and I: The Interracial Experiences of an American Negro with Essays on Interracial Understanding [Lengthily Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/446/558/1680558446.0.m.jpg)
My Country and I: The Interracial Experiences of an American Negro with Essays on Interracial Understanding [Lengthily Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] CHRISTIAN, Malcolm H.
New York: Exposition Press, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light grey cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [7],8-96pp. Signed by the author with his Chicago address at lower front pastedown (possibly one of his own copies), and lengthily inscribed by him on the front endpaper: "Jan. 6, 65 / To... Read More
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![Jubilee [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/343/025/1502025343.0.m.jpg)
Jubilee [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] WALKER, Margaret
New York: Bantam Books, 1967. Reprint. Octavo (17.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; xvi,416pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page in 1992. Subtle tanning to text edges (as usual), else Fine. Walker's only novel, which had been her doctoral dissertation. "Jubilee is a realistic story of a slave family set before, during, and after the Civil War, based on... Read More
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![Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/772/333/1631333772.0.m.jpg)
Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KING, Mary
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige paper-covered boards and dark grey cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-592pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "Max Kennedy / "We'll never turn back" / Mary King." Old splash marks affecting upper half of front pastedown, faint... Read More
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