![The Nigger Factory [Inscribed to Gwendolyn Brooks]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/882/202/1656202882.0.m.jpg)
The Nigger Factory [Inscribed to Gwendolyn Brooks]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] SCOTT-HERON, Gil
Edinburgh: Payback Press, 1996. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, a trade paperback original. Octavo (19.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; xii,237,[7]pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks: "Miss Brooks – Forgive the N..... word, this was written a long time ago. (But I'd say it again) / Gil Scott-Heron (A Chicago Native)... Read More
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![The Dragon Has Come" [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/983/202/1656202983.0.m.jpg)
The Dragon Has Come" [Inscribed]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] ARMSTRONG, Gregory
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); red cloth, titled in black and yellow on spine; dustjacket; xiv,238,[2]pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "For Harriet / Who lives in me almost as if she were a part of myself / Love always / Gregory." A bit of softening to spine... Read More
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Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] WILSON, Harriet E. (novel); GATES, Henry Louis (introduction)
London: Allison & Busby, 1984. First U.K. Edition (and Second Edition overall). First Impression, cloth issue. Octavo (20.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [2],lx,[vi],140,xxxiii,[3]pp. Early ink gift inscription to a preliminary blank, some of the usual subtle tanning to the text edges, and some scattered foxing to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine.... Read More
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Look For Me in the Whirlwind: The Collective Autobiography of the New York 21
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] BURNS, Haywood (introduction)
New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; xvi,,[2],3-364pp. Faint forward lean, trivial thumb-soil to right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), with the usual gentle sunning to the spine lettering, modest surface wear, and a few faint creases; Very Good+. A... Read More
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Scottsboro Boy
by [AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] PATTERSON, Haywood and Earl Conrad
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; x,309,[1]pp. Spine ends lightly nudged, with a stray, tiny ink mark to lower edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), with remainder price rubber-stamped directly beneath; gently spine-sunned, a bit shelfworn... Read More
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Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855. In Five Volumes
by [AFRICAN EXPLORATION] BARTH, Henry
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. First Edition in English. Five uniform octavo volumes (23cm). In the publisher's deep green grain-patterned cloth, blind-embossed on covers, titled in gilt on spines; printed terra-cotta endpapers; xxxvi, 578, [24]ads.; xi, 676; xi, 635; xiv, 641, [24]ads.; xii, 694pp; text illus; fifteen folding maps; one folding woodcut; 60 inserted leaves of... Read More
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![In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/431/022/1523022431.0.m.jpg)
In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria [Signed]
by [AFRICA - EXPLORATION] STANLEY, Henry M.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1890. First Edition. Signed limited Demy Quarto Edition de Luxe. #230 of 250 copies printed. Quarto (30cm). Two volumes half-bound in black morocco and vellum, stamped in gilt on front and spines. top edges gilt; plain endpapers; I: [ii],[xvi],529,[1]pp; II: [ii],[xvi],472pp; 2 photogravure frontispieces, 6 etchings, 2 large color folding maps backed... Read More
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![Horace Pippin: A Negro Painter in America [Sol Libsohn's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/813/092/1639092813.0.m.jpg)
Horace Pippin: A Negro Painter in America [Sol Libsohn's Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] RODMAN, Selden (text); PIPPIN, Horace (artwork)
New York: The Quadrangle Press, 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (31.25cm); grey cloth, titled in silver on spine and front cover; [iv],[2],3-88,[4]pp; illus. Sol Libsohn's copy, with his signature at upper front pastedown; Libsohn (1914-2001) was a documentary photographer, and co-founder of the New York Workers Film and Photo League. Gentle sunning to spine, lower rear board corner... Read More
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![Journal of an African Cruiser: Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape de Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa [Presentation Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/800/698/1329698800.0.m.jpg)
Journal of an African Cruiser: Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape de Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa [Presentation Copy]
by [AFRICA] BRIDGE, Horatio (author); HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (editor)
New York: George P. Putnam & Co, 1853. Presumed Third Printing, First Issue. Octavo (19.25cm); brown vertically-ribbed cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, triple-ruled border and decorative centerpieces stamped in blind to covers; pale yellow endpapers; [ii],[viii],179,[3]pp. Inscribed in pencil on the front flyleaf: "Hon. J. Collamer / With respects of The Author" (possibly Jacob Collamer, judge... Read More
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![Die Nigger Die! [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/878/202/1656202878.0.m.jpg)
Die Nigger Die! [Review Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] BROWN, H. Rap (b. Hubert Gerold Brown)
New York: The Dial Press, 1969. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21.75cm); red-orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [xii],145,[1]pp; illus. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95), gently spine-sunned, with a few small... Read More
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![Insights & Poems [Signed by Ericka Huggins]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/724/825/1683825724.0.m.jpg)
Insights & Poems [Signed by Ericka Huggins]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] NEWTON, Huey P. and Ericka Huggins
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Small octavo (15cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-84,[4]pp; illus. Signed by Ericka Huggins on the title page. Pinpoint wear to extremities, tiny stress creases to upper left corner of rear wrapper, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. Scarce collection of poems co-authored by Newton and Huggins,... Read More
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Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
by [AFRICA] MURRAY, Hugh
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Horme, and Brown, 1818. Second Edition. Octavo (12.5cm). Two volumes in contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt roll to outer perimeter of boards, titled in gilt on green leather spine labels; plain endpapers; I: [iii]-[xxiv],557,[1]pp; II: [viii],550pp; 7 maps (3 folding), including a Chart of Zaire not mentioned in the directions to... Read More
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Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa...Enlarged, and Completed to the Present Time, with Illustrations of Its Geography and Natural History, As Well As of the Moral and Social Condition of Its Inhabitants
by [AFRICA] MURRAY, Hugh; John Leyden
Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., and Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Contemporary calf rebacked with red leather, titled in gilt on black leather spine labels, all edges sprinkled brown; plain endpapers, f.f.e.p. renewed in vol. I, both front endpapers renewed in vol. II; I:... Read More
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New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] REED, Ishmael
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006. First Carroll & Graff Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,482,[6]pp. Spine ends gently bumped, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $25.95), with light wear to extremities. A substantial collection of Reed's poetry, spanning more than four decades.... Read More
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![Lawrence - Paintings, March 25 - April 20 [Two Rebels]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/569/481/1702481569.0.m.jpg)
Lawrence - Paintings, March 25 - April 20 [Two Rebels]
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS] LAWRENCE, Jacob
New York: Terry Dintenfass, 1963. First Edition. Original lithographed poster, with text and illustrations printed in dark red and black on thick cream laid paper, measuring 48cm x 66.25cm (18 7/8" x 26 1/8"). Mild handling, a few faint creases from being rolled, with a half-dozen foxed spots; unbacked; Near Fine. A striking poster by Lawrence, designed to... Read More
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A Time of Black Devotion
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] [POETRY] KILGORE, James C.
Ashland, OH: Ashland Poetry Press, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 55pp. Light wear to extremities, else Fine. Louisiana-born poet, whose work primarily addresses racial tensions, beginning with the poem "The White Man Pressed the Locks," in which a white man locks his car doors while driving "down the concrete vein." Also includes poems dedicated to Frantz... Read More
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![Chameleon [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/968/072/1544072968.0.m.jpg)
Chameleon [Review Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] MAYS, James A.
Los Angeles: Crescent Publications, 1978. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publlisher's slip laid in. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; iv,155pp. A few faint streaks to rear cover, else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, showing light wear, and some pronounced foxing to extremities. Self-published novel about the difficulties faced by a... Read More
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Dark Symphony: Negro Literature In America
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] EMANUEL, James A. and Theodore L. Gross (editors)
New York: The Free Press, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); turquoise cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; xx,604pp. Spine ends nudged, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $8.95), lightly edgeworn, with a fingernail-sized indentation toward the center of the front joint; Very Good+ or better. An anthology containing 91 selections from the works... Read More
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No Name in the Street
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] BALDWIN, James
London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1972. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22.5cm); turquoise paper-covered boards, blocked and titled in gilt and black on spine; dustjacket; [12],13-168pp. Small bruise to upper margin of pp.25-28, else a fresh, Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced £2.00 net), with some mild surface wear and a very fine crease along... Read More
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Black Separatism and the Caribbean, 1860
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS - CARIBBEAN] HOLLY, James Theodore and J. Dennis HARRIS
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 174pp. 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 lightly soiled dustwrapper. Reprints James Theodore Holly's "Vindication of the Capacity of the Negro Race for Self-Government and... Read More
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Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] JACKSON, George L. (text); GENET, Jean (introduction)
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; photo-illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; [xvi],[2],3-330,[6]pp. Crown gently bumped, with a tiny nick to cloth at upper edge of front board; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with a lower ink price written beneath the printed $5.95 price on... Read More
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Here and Now for Bobby Seale
by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] GENET, Jean
[New York]: Committee to Defend the Panthers, [1970]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; [20]pp; illus. Subtle toning along upper right edge of front wrapper, else Fine. First edition of this collection of four essays by Genet, written as an appeal to defend Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale, who was facing murder charges in New... Read More
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![Brothers & Keepers [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/851/561/1613561851.0.m.jpg)
Brothers & Keepers [Review Copy]
by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] WIDEMAN, John Edgar
London: Allison & Busby, 1985. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, cloth issue, a review copy, with the publisher's slip and 2pp press release laid in. Octavo (22cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-243,[3]pp. Pictorial bookplate to front endpaper, crown gently bumped and sunned, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced... Read More
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Moving with the Face of the Devil: Art and Politics in Urban West Africa
by [AFRICA] NUNLEY, John W.
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (26cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,281,[7]pp; illus. Some trivial wear to lower board edges, else Fine in a Near Fine, lightly shelfworn dustjacket. Scholarly volume illuminating "the vigorously creative traditions of Yoruba art in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and shows how... Read More
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The Slave Power, Its Character, Career & Probable Designs
by [AFRICAN AMERICANS] CAIRNES, John E.
Newton Abbott: David & Charles, [1976]. Reprint. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 410pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1863 edition. 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 lightly soiled, VG dustwrapper.
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