American Hunger
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] WRIGHT, Richard (novel); FABRE, Michel (afterword)
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); dark blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xii],146,[2]pp. Two tiny scuffs to lower edge of front board, tiny sticker shadow to upper front endpaper; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), lightly edgeworn and a little dust-soiled, with a small abrasion to... 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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Native Son
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] WRIGHT, Richard
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. Reprint, issued by the Book-of-the-Month Club, with "First Edition" and "A-P" code on copyright page (see Ahearn). Octavo (21cm); second binding in gray cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine; gray topstain; dustjacket; xii,359,[1]pp. Base of spine a bit nudged, lower rear board corner gently tapped (though still sharp),... Read More
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Judy Collins & Rosa Parks 1984
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY] [PHOTOGRAPHY] GORDON, Richard (1945-2012)
[Chicago: Richard Gordon, c. 1984]. Original silver-gelatin print on matte photographic paper. Image area 8" x 12", on 11" x 14" sheet. Titled in ink in lower left margin; signed in ink lower right beneath image. Fine, unfaded print in a hinged gallery mat. A lovely profile portrait of Parks in conversation with American folk singer and... Read More
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The Slave: or, Memoirs of Archy Moore
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [SLAVERY & ABOLITION] [HILDRETH, Richard]
Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1846. Sixth Edition. Two volumes bound in one; small octavo (20cm.); publisher's embossed cloth, titled in gilt on spine,123,[1],115pp. Slight rubbing and wear to cloth, heavier at board corners and with small loss at crown of spine; text tight and unmarked but moderately foxed; sound and Good. Contemporary ownership signature ("Lucia A Haynes") to front free... Read More
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American Smooth: Poems
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] DOVE, Rita
New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2004. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (21cm); pictorial card wrappers; [14],143,[1]pp. A Fine, unread copy.
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Grace Notes: Poems [Review Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [POETRY] DOVE, Rita
New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1989. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with two pages of publisher's publicity sheets and a promotional photograph of the author laid in. Octavo (21.75cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt and silver on spine; dustjacket; xiv,73,[1]pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $16.95). Sharp copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read More
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Singers in the Dawn: A Brief Anthology of American Negro Poetry
by [AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE] ELEAZER, Robert B.
Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, (1943). Later Printing. Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; 24pp. Minor external soil; Very Good. Seventh edition, dated 1943 (first published 1934). Anthology of African-American poets, including Wheatley, Dunbar, Du Bois, and others.
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![Curling: A Novel [Uncorrected Proof Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/848/020/1412020848.0.m.jpg)
Curling: A Novel [Uncorrected Proof Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] BOLES, Robert
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); publisher's galley sheets, comb-bound into printed covers; pp.1-93a. A few slivers of loss to comb-binding, light wear and toning to wrapper extremities, with some mild dustiness to same; contents clean; Very Good+. Second novel by Boles (1943-2012), a Chicago-born African American author. "Mr. Boles concerns himself with the... Read More
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Sanctions Against Rhodesia
by [AFRICA] SUTCLIFFE, Robert B.
London: Africa Bureau, 1966. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); stapled wrappers; 12pp. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. "The overwhelmingly important question in the Rhodesian crisis is now Rhodesia's vulnerability to economic sanctions. It is difficult to be exact in economic terms; we can only make rough estimates. It is even more difficult to say what the political effect... Read More
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James Shepherd Pike: Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] DURDEN, Robert Franklin
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1978. Reprint. Octavo. Cloth boards; 249pp; 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 sharp, unmarked copy, lightly soiled on covers.
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![From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/507/309/1572309507.0.m.jpg)
From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] KING, Robert Hillary
Oakland: PM Press, 2009. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-217,[7]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "4/1/10 - To: Louise...Robert H. King." Crown gently nudged, else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $24.95), with some trivial wear to extremities. Memoir by King... Read More
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The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research - Vol.2, No.4 (December, 1970)
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] CHRISMAN, Robert (editor); DU BOIS, Shirley Graham, Adam Clayton Powell, and Hayward Henry, Jr., et al. (contributors)
San Francisco: The Black World Foundation, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (26cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 63,[1]pp; illus. Light wear and handling to wrappers, with a few small scuffs and spots to same, and a contemporary mailing label to upper rear cover; Very Good+. Contents include contributions by Andrew Billingsley, Calvin B. Marshall III, Sister M. Martin de Porres Grey, Hayward... Read More
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The Black Scholar: The Black Male Vol. 2, no 10. (June 1971)
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] STAPLES, Robert, George JACKSON and Charles WATKINS
Sausalito, CA: Black World Foundation, 1971. First Edition. Small quarto (26cm); original pictorial card wrappers; 64pp. Light rubbing and soiling to wrappers; address label on rear wrapper; contents clean, complete; Very Good. This issue includes "The Myth of the Impotent Black Male" by Robert Staples; "Simple: The Alter Ego of Langston Hughes" by Charles A. Watkins; and "Struggle and... Read More
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Poster: Romare Bearden, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] BEARDEN, Romare (artist)
New York: American Vision Gallery, 1991. Original illustrated poster, offset printed in colors on white coated stock, measuring 71.25cm x 67.5cm (28" x 26 5/8"). Light wear and handling, a few tiny creases to lower right corner, with a few tiny tears to upper left corner; Near Fine. Poster promoting a show of Bearden's work at the Albright-Knox Gallery,... Read More
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![Hog Butcher [Bound Galley Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/047/584/1360584047.0.m.jpg)
Hog Butcher [Bound Galley Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] FAIR, Ronald L.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1966. First Edition. Quarto (31cm); publisher's galley sheets (rectos), comb-bound into patterned paper covers; [vi],127,[1]pp. Modest wear, creasing, and a few tears to wrappers, touch of dustiness to text edges; Very Good+. The African American author and sculptor's second and best-known book, a tragic coming-of-age novel that served as the basis for... Read More
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![Black Panthers 1968 [Signed by Kathleen Cleaver]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/752/296/1601296752.0.m.jpg)
Black Panthers 1968 [Signed by Kathleen Cleaver]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] BARUCH, Ruth-Marion and Pirkle Jones (photographs); CLEAVER, Kathleen (introduction)
Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 4,000 copies. Quarto (31cm); black cloth, with titles embossed on spine; dustjacket; [144]pp; illus. Signed by Kathleen Cleaver on the title page, dated July 30, 2010. Base of spine gently nudged, crown gently bumped, else Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket.
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Breaking Loose: African-Canadian Dance in Southwestern Ontario 1900-1955
by [AFRICAN-CANADIAN HISTORY – DANCE] SHADD, Ruth Ann
Windsor: by the Author, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers; 174pp. Private ownership stamps to bottom edge and fore edge of text block, Else a tight, VG copy with unmarked text. Rather scarce, self-published work by an Afro-Canadian dancer and educator, based on her Master's Thesis at Wayne State University.
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The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research - Vol.5, No.6 (March, 1974)
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] CHRISMAN, Robert (editor); DU BOIS, Shirley Graham, S.E. Anderson, and Fania Davis Jordan, et al. (contributors)
Sausalito, CA: Black World Foundation, 1974. First Edition. Small quarto (25.75cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [1]-64pp. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, original postal label on rear cover; contents clean; Very Good+. Contents include contributions by S.E. Anderson, J. Herman Blake, Lenneal J. Henderson, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Juanita Jackson, and others. 87234.
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The 51% Minority: An Address by Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) Delivered at the Conference on Women's Employment
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [WOMEN] CHISHOLM, Shirley
Pittsburgh: Know, Inc, [1970]. Slim octavo (21.5cm); pale yellow printed wrappers; [i],7pp. Mild toning to extremities, with contemporary pencil price at upper right corner of front wrapper; Near Fine. Full text of the lecture Chisholm delivered at the Conference on Women's Employment in Chicago, Illinois, on January 24, 1970, an event sponsored by the Chicago chapter of NOW. Shirley... Read More
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn From Her "Book of Life.
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] TRUTH, Sojourner (text); [GILBERT, Olive and Frances W. Titus] (editors); GARRISON, William Lloyd (preface)
Boston: Published for the Author, 1875. First Revised Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); dark blue-green cloth, with titling and portrait of the author stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; xii,[13]-324pp, with an engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, and the errata slip tipped onto the preface at gutter. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to front pastedown ("L.G.... Read More
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Apartheid: The Facts
by [SOUTH AFRICA]
London: International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, 1983. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 112pp; illus. Minor external wear; Near Fine and unmarked. Detailed cultural history of South African apartheid, well-illustrated and replete with statistical and ethnographic data.
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South Africa, Apartheid and Britain
by [SOUTH AFRICA]
London: LRD Publications Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (18.25cm); stapled wrappers; 20pp. Light wear to extremities, else Fine. A pamphlet, jointly published by the Labor Research Department and African National Congress (South Africa), addressing the following questions: "What in fact does apartheid mean in human terms? How does it affect the different race groups in South Africa? And... Read More
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Gatherings; The History and Activities of the Emerson Street YMCA Branch
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN] [CIVIL RIGHTS] WEST, Stan (Editor)
Evanston, Illinois: Shorefront Press, 2004. First Edition. Quarto. 25.5cm. Publisher's limp card wraps titled in black. [ix] 77pp. Minimal wear, internally clean, a near fine copy. An illustrated history of the Evanston YMCA branch that became an historic informal hub and gathering place for the African American population from its inception in 1914 to its eventual closing... Read More
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Poster: Jamaa Productions Presents Jamila-Ra's The Good Book. Available At All Good Bookstores
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] JAMILA-RA (formerly Maxine Hall Elliston); THOMAS, Stephen (artwork)
Chicago: Jamaa Scenes Inc, 1971. First Edition. Original illustrated poster, offset printed in two colors on white stock, measuring 35.5cm x 56cm (14" x 22"); two old folds, else Near Fine. Promotional poster for Jamila-Ra's The Good Book, a volume of black revolutionary poems by the Chicago-born poet and member of the Nommo group. OCLC notes 2 holdings (Yale,... Read More
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