![The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North [Inscribed by Three Contributors]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/543/152/1638152543.0.m.jpg)
The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North [Inscribed by Three Contributors]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] FINLEY, Mary Lou, Bernard LaFayette Jr., James R. Ralph Jr., and Pam Smith (editors)
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2015. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); light grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,495,[9]pp. Inscribed by three contributors – Sherrilyn Bevel, Gail Schechter, and Pam Smith – opposite the title page. Security decal on p.11, faint finger-soil to right edge of textblock; Near Fine in a Near Fine... 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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![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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![Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/015/203/1656203015.0.m.jpg)
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] BEALS, Melba Pattillo
New York: Pocket Books, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige paper-covered boards and burgundy cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,312pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "6/94 / To: Robert / Your energy + determination are a reflection of the Holy Spirit / Best... Read More
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Special Moments in African-American History 1955-1996; The Photographs of Moneta Sleet Jr. Ebony Magazine's Pulitzer Prize Winner
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN] [PHOTOGRAPHY] SLEET Jr., Moneta
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1998. Stated First Edition. Quarto. 34cm. Publisher's ochre cloth boards titled in copper gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 184pp. Light scuffing to corners and some minor cosmetic soiling of the cloth, in a clean, bright dustjacket with some incidental creasing to spine ends and extremities, and the residue of an old price label to the upper... Read More
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![A Season For Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/768/333/1631333768.0.m.jpg)
A Season For Justice: The Life and Times of Civil Rights Lawyer Morris Dees [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] DEES, Morris with Steve Fiffer
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); tan paper-covered boards and navy blue cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xii],355,[1]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "2/22/96 / To the Rosens / Many thanks for your generous support of my work / Morris Dees." Upper right corner... Read More
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![Something To Think About - Volume I [all published?]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/150/542/811542150.0.m.jpg)
Something To Think About - Volume I [all published?]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] RASHID, Muhammed A.
New York: Vantage Press, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 98pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, with only a few pinpoint rubs and a few tiny foxed spots to rear flap fold. Collection of parables written by the native Pittsburgh author, the book being a vehicle to "propagate... Read More
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![The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/763/333/1631333763.0.m.jpg)
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through his Writings, Letters, and Speeches [Signed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] EVERS, Medgar (text); EVERS-WILLIAMS, Myrlie and Manning Marable (editors)
New York: Basic Books / Civitas Books, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); beige and navy blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,352,[8]pp; illus. Signed by Myrlie Evers-Williams on the half-title page. Base of spine a bit pushed, light wear to lower board edges, with a few faint scuffs to rear cover; contents... Read More
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Double Trio
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] MACKEY, Nathaniel
New York: New Directions Books, 2021. First Edition. First Printing. Three octavo volumes (23cm); original pictorial card wrappers; publisher's decorative slipcase; xvi,[2]-337,[7]; [xiv],[2]-345,[1]; [xiv],[2]-344,[2]pp. Fine in a Fine slipcase. A massive achievement by the National Book Award-winning poet. "Double Trio is the singular serial poem that Nathaniel Mackey has been writing for over thirty-five years – a remarkable achievement... Read More
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Black Radical; The Education of an American Revolutionary
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] PEERY, Nelson
New York: New Press, 2007. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red spine over brown paper covered boards, titled in silver gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 242pp. Very light wear and bumping to spne ends, a touch of sunning to the upper edge; internally clean, signed and dated (10th October 2007) by the author to the front flyleaf; in a... Read More
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Intervention and Colonization in Africa
by [AFRICA - COLONIZATION] HARRIS, Norman Dwight
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1914]. First Edition. First edition. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; [xx],384pp; six color maps (one double-page), frontispiece, and black and white maps. Bright and sound, with faint rubbing to edges, internally clean: Very Good. World Diplomacy vol. I. Harris was at this time a professor of European Diplomatic History at Northwestern.
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] SHANGE, Ntozake
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); navy blue and green paper-covered boards with red cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine and decorative elements embossed on front cover; dustjacket; [xii],224,[4]pp. Trivial dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, else very Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $10.95), with light... Read More
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Description de L'Afrique, Contenant Les Noms, La Situation & Les Confins de Toutes ses Parties, Leurs Rivieres, Leurs Villes & Leurs Habitations, Leurs Plantes & Leurs Animaux; Les Moeurs, Les Coûtumes, La Langue, Les Richesses, La Religion & Le Gouvernement de Ses Peuples
by [AFRICA] DAPPER, O[lfert]
Amsterdam: Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom & van Someren, 1686. First Thus. First French edition. Folio in fours (37cm). Contemporary mottled calf, spine divided into seven compartments, each tooled in gilt, all edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; [vi],534,[22]pp; engraved title page, 26 (of 42) double-page line-engraved plates, 55 in-text line engravings. Lacking 17 maps and plates, including the large folding map... Read More
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Inside the Devil's Mouth: First Poems
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] COBB, Pamela (a.k.a. Baraka Sele)
Detroit: Lotus Press, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light blue sheets, mimeographed in three colors and bound with royal blue tape along spine; 44,[2]pp; illus. A Fine, unread copy. The native Detroit author's first book of poems. Cobb was a member of the Black Christian Nationalist Movement at the Shrine of the Black Madonna, and a former... Read More
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![Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family [Inscribed to Sybil Harriet Landau]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/743/825/1683825743.0.m.jpg)
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family [Inscribed to Sybil Harriet Landau]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] MURRAY, Pauli
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1956. First Edition. First Printing, with "First Edition" and the publisher's "I-F" code on copyright page. Octavo (21.75cm); dark grey cloth boards, with titles stamped in white on spine, and publisher's logo in white at lower front cover; dustjacket; [x],276,[2]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "August 28, 1964 / Especially... Read More
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![The Raw Pearl [Signed, with signed photo laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/582/728/1522728582.0.m.jpg)
The Raw Pearl [Signed, with signed photo laid in]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] BAILEY, Pearl
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Boldly signed in black ink on front endpaper, with signed photo, also signed, laid in. Octavo. Orange cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 206pp; illus. Fine, in lightly rubbed, priced clipped dustwrapper, Near Fine. A lovely copy, nicely signed.
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Negro Representation – a Step Towards Negro Freedom
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] PERRY, Pettis (text); GANNETT, Betty (introduction)
New York: New Century Publishers, 1952. First Edition. Slim octavo (19.5cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 24pp. Light wear and rubbing, some oxidation to staples, with two ink marks to margins; Very Good. "A call for unrestricted Negro suffrage and representation, and for the smashing of Jim Crow in our political life. While Marxists should seek to lead the movement,... Read More
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Perversions of Justice: The Prosecution and Acquittal of the Panther 21
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] ZIMROTH, Peter L.
New York: The Viking Press, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); faux denim patterned boards and black cloth backstrip, with metallic pink and copper on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-423,[1]pp. Small abrasion to upper front pastedown, with a single dog-eared corner smoothed out; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $12.95), gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears,... Read More
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An American Traveler's Guide to Black History
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN] [CIVIL RIGHTS] DROTNING, Phillip T.
New York: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition Thus. Illustrated Revised Edition, of a volume also published under the title "A Guide to Negro History in America." Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over vivid blue cloth boards, titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 247pp. The lightest of wear to the cloth, in a clean, strong dustjacket with some marginal wear... Read More
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Kirk on the Zambesi: A Chapter of African History
by [AFRICA - EXPLORATION] COUPLAND, R.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Red cloth titled in gilt; plain endpapers; [viii],286,[2]pp; color frontispiece, 4 color plates, 10 black and white plates, folding map. Sound but rubbed, spine-sunned, and lightly cocked: Very Good. Dr. John Kirk was the botanist and medical officer on Livingstone's Zambezi expedition (1858-63). Coupland's history was based... Read More
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Studies in Black Literature - Vol.6, No.1 (Spring, 1975)
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] SINGH, Raman K. (editor)
Fredericksburg, VA: Department of English, Mary Washington College, 1975. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); original printed wrappers, stapled; 21,[3]pp. Wrappers unevenly toned, starting oxidation to staples, with recipients address label to rear wrapper; contents clean; Very Good. Contents include contributions by Femi Ojo-Ade, David C. Meyer, A. Fisch, James Olney, Isaac Sequeira, and W.T. Lhamon. DANKY 5701.
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Studies in Black Literature, Vol. 8, no. 1, Spring, 1977
by [AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE] SINGH, Raman K., ed
[Fredericksburg, VA]: Studies in Black Literature, 1977. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original mustard printed staplebound wrappers; 26pp.; text in double columns. Some creasing to extremities from handling, else Very Good and sound. Includes D.H. Melhem's essay "Gwendolyn Brooks: The Heroic Voice of Prophecy.
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Original Color Photographic Portrait and Typed Letter, Signed, from Father Divine to "Miss Gentle Dove
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] DIVINE, Rev. Major Jealous (aka "Father Divine")
N.p.: S.i., 1955. Original color photograph, measuring 11.5cm x 16cm, housed in an off-white unprinted card presentation folder with typed letter tipped onto facing page. Mild signs of handling to folder, else Fine. Letter on Divine's letterhead, dated January 12, 1955. shows two old folds smoothed out, with a clear example of Rev. Divine's signature above his typed name.... 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... 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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