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... Read More
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![Letters to the Hon. William Jay, Being a Reply to His "Inquiry into the American Colonization and American Anti-Slavery Societies" [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/245/956/775956245.0.m.0.jpg)
Letters to the Hon. William Jay, Being a Reply to His "Inquiry into the American Colonization and American Anti-Slavery Societies" [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] REESE, David M.
New-York: Leavitt, Lord & Co, 1835. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, unadorned spine; xii,120,[7](ads)pp. Spine ends chipped, minor cracks along upper joint cloth; a few leaves slightly creased, else textblock sound. Very Good. Inscribed "Rev T. Mason / with the respects of / The author" on front free endpaper. Refutation of... 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... Read More
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![The Bounty [Inscribed to Quincy Troupe]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/571/545/1581545571.0.m.jpg)
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... 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... Read More
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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... 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... 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... Read More
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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... Read More
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The Supreme Wisdom: Solution to the So-Called Negroes' Problem
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [NATION OF ISLAM] MUHAMMAD, Elijah (text); Naeem, Abdul Basit (introduction)
Newport News, VA: The National Newport News and Commentator, 1957 [but ca.1981]. Later Printing (dated from ads, despite copyright page stating "First Edition – February 26, 1957). Slim octavo (20.25cm); original photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; [2],3-56 + [5]pp ads; illus. Light wear and a few tiny creases to wrappers, with a few fingernail-sized indentations to front cover; contents clean; Very... 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... Read More
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![Revolution in Black and White: Photographs of the Civil Rights Era [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/275/721/1665721275.0.m.jpg)
Revolution in Black and White: Photographs of the Civil Rights Era [Signed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] CAHAN, Richard and Michael Williams (text); WITHERS, Ernest C. (photographs)
Chicago: Cityfiles Press, 2019. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28.75cm); black paper-covered boards, titled in silver on spine; photo-illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; [13]14-288pp; illus. Initialed by Richard Cahan (R.B.C. – 2019!) in the year of publication on the copyright page. Upper rear board corner gently tapped (though still sharp), else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket shows some very light... Read More
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Original silver-gelatin photograph: "II/8/68 - So. 2nd St & Beale
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY] WITHERS, Ernest C.
Memphis: Ernest C. Withers. Original black and white silver-gelatin photograph, 16" x 20" (c. 40cm x 51cm). Printed later (by Withers) from an original negative. Mounted on foam-core. Signed in marker, lower right: "Ernest C Withers / MLK 1948." Titled in ink on verso, with Withers' studio stamp repeated four times. Staining and soil to verso; mount trimmed somewhat... Read More
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![Missions to the Niger - Volumes 1-4 [Complete Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/566/095/1517095566.0.m.jpg)
Missions to the Niger - Volumes 1-4 [Complete Set]
by [AFRICA] [NIGER] BOVILL, E.W. (editor)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, for the Hakluyt Society, 1964-66. First Editions. First Impressions. Four octavo volumes (22.25cm); light blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spines and front covers; dustjackets; xvi,406; xiv,306 + folding map; xii,[307]-595,[1] + folding map; x,[597]-798pp, with folded map housed in a pocket mounted to the rear pastedown; with pictorial frontispieces and... Read More
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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... 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... Read More
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![Will You Die With Me? My Life and the Black Panther Party [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/505/309/1572309505.0.m.jpg)
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... 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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![Diary of a Sit-In [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/974/1631974826.0.m.jpg)
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... Read More
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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... 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. ... Read More
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The Long Shadow of Little Rock [Review Copy, from the Library of the Amsterdam News]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] BATES, Daisy; Eleanor Roosevelt, fwd
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition. First printing. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in; ink annotation to front pastedown: "Amsterdam News / Oct 2 1962 /Review Copy;" pictorial bookplate of C[ilian] B. Powell. Octavo (21cm); full red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; xviii,234,[4]pp; illus. Faint foxing to endpapers, else clean throughout;... Read More
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The Beacon. Vol II no 2-d4 (July 29, 1939)
by [AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] PIERCE, George E (ed)
Pittsburgh: Beacon Publishing Company, 1939. Single quarto issue. Offset-printed wrappers over mimeographed text; 22pp. Soil and wear to wrappers; internally complete, clean and unmarked. Good and sound. An unknown and practically unrecorded Pittsburgh African-American weekly magazine, devoted to race relations, uplift, and news of goings-on in Pittsburgh's historically Black neighborhoods, including the Hill District, Coraopolis, Homewood, Beltzhoover,... 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... Read More
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