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. ... Read More
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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... 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.... 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.m.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... Read More
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![Blue Monday [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/735/971/1567971735.0.m.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... 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... Read More
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![[Drop title] Memoire sur les Sondages Exécutés dans le Sahara (Compagne 1857 - 1858) [Inscribed and Signed to Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/243/738/1274738243.0.m.jpg)
[Drop title] Memoire sur les Sondages Exécutés dans le Sahara (Compagne 1857 - 1858) [Inscribed and Signed to Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy]
by [AFRICA - COLONIAL ALGERIA] [CIVIL ENGINEERING] LAURENT, Charles
[Paris: E. Noblet, n.d., but 1858?]. First Edition. Octavo (25cm.); original plain blue side-stitched wrappers; 32pp.; folding engraved plan. Wrapper extremities chipped with some loss to spine, else Very Good, contents and plate fine. Inscribed and signed by the author to the Belgian geologist d'Omalius d'Halloy on half title, with additional manuscriopt note at end of text, p. 32,... 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.m.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... 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... Read More
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![Evers [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/116/1655116826.0.m.jpg)
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... Read More
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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... 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... 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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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... 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... 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.m.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... Read More
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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... 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, .... Read More
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![The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC [Inscribed to Harry Belafonte]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/014/171/1653171014.0.m.jpg)
The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC [Inscribed to Harry Belafonte]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] SELLERS, Cleveland and Robert Terrell
Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. First Edition Thus. First Printing, a trade paperback original. Octavo (21cm); glossy printed card wrappers; [vi],[3],4-289,[1]pp. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "To Harry Belafonte & Family / Your steady and continuous support always made a difference / You helped many of us "SNICKers" find and know Mother... Read More
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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... 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... 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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![Connection. Journal of the Centre Ave. Poets Theatre. Volume 1, no. 1 [January 1968]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/724/182/1615182724.0.m.jpg)
Connection. Journal of the Centre Ave. Poets Theatre. Volume 1, no. 1 [January 1968]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] WILSON, August; Nick Flournoy, Curtiss Porter (et al, eds)
Pittsburgh: Centre Ave. Poets Theatre, 1968. First Edition. Quarto. Tape-backed printed card wrappers; 32pp. Mimeographed. Moderate external soil; internally clean, tight and ummarked; Very Good. Premier issue of this short-lived Black Arts journal (OCLC records are indeterminate, but it appears only two or three issues were published; starting with the Spring 1968 issue the imprint changed to... Read More
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![Down The Line: Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/744/825/1683825744.0.m.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... 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... Read More
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