A Gesture of Belonging: Letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979
Heinemann, March 1991. First Thus. Trade Paperback. A very good copy of the first printing of this edition (slight wear). More
Black Studies
As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation
AK Press, June 2018. Trade Paperback. A Very Good copy with light shelfwear, else fine. More
The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
University of Massachusetts Press, January 2005. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Book is in very good condition. General shelf and handling wear. Interior is clean with a tight spine. More
Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity and I write What I like
New England Free Press, 1981. Saddle-stapled wraps. Written by the South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. 17 pp., a clean copy in Very Good condition with light toning to the wraps and minor wear. // 'The first of these articles by the martyred South African leader Steve Biko was originally..... More
Great Slave Narratives
Beacon Press, January 1969. Later Printing. Trade Paperback. Paperback in very good condition. More
Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63
Simon & Schuster, November 1989. Trade Paperback. A Very Good copy with minimal shelfwear, else fine. More
In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
Harvard University Press, April 1995. Trade Paperback. A Very Good copy with minimal wear (bumped corners and marks in black ink throughout). Paperback 8vo. 359 pp. More
With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together
William Morrow, October 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket. A first edition (with complete numberline) signed by both authors. More
Paul Robeson
Knopf, February 1989. Hardcover. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ has minor but noticeable shelfwear, bumped corners, some edgewear. Book has minor shelfwear, bumped corners. More
The Souls of Black Folk (Paperback - 1964)
Crest Book R699, January 1964. Trade Paperback. A Third Printing. Introduced by Saunders Redding. 12mo. - over 6 3/4 in. - 7 3/4 in. A clean copy in Very Good condition with moderate oxidation to the wraps and red-edged pages and minor creasing to the back panel. More
Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper
University Press of Mississippi, October 1995. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As New condition. 272 pp. More
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed By Author on title page and dated 5/16/07 - no inscription. A near fine copy of the first edition, 2nd printing (with number line to 2). More
Yaradee;: A plea for Africa, in familiar conversations on the subject of slavery and colonization
Negro Universities Press, January 1969. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good. Solid clean ex-library hardcover in original binding (has library markings but not much evidence of use). More
Inciting Joy: Essays
Algonquin Books, October 2022. Hardcover. New Copy arrived damaged. Jacket has spall tear along top edge of the spine. Hardcover has several small dents. More
Out of Indochina! Freedom for Angela Davis! : Our Goals for 1971 and How to Win Them
New Outlook Publishers, January 1971. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 60, [4] pages (including wrappers). Upper wrapper title. 'The sharpening crisis of U.S. imperialism and the tasks of the Communist Party' (upper wrapper); notable for the section on both the Black and Chicano movements..... More
Survival in the Square
Brooke Richards Pr, June 1989. Trade Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. VG SIGNED. Slight rubbing to wrappers (chiefly to foredges and lower edge of upper wrapper); slight internal browning to edges. [8], 152 pages. Story of the training of a successful African-American professional boxer, written together with..... More
In the cage;: Eyewitness accounts of the freed Negro in Southern society, 1877-1929
Quadrangle Books, January 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good in jacket (jacket has surface and edge wear). More
Psychiatric Aspects of School Desegregation
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, January 1957. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG- 95 pages. Technical study of the then-evolving situation following the 1954 Supreme Court decision. Issued as Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Report Number 37, May, 1957. See Porter #589..... More
James Weldon Johnson: Writings
Library of America, January 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In Near Fine condition in original red cloth and publisher's slipcase (very slight wear to slipcase). Publisher's printed notes laid in. More
Ebony Brass; an Autobiography of Negro Frustration Amid Aspiration
The Author, January 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good. Solid clean ex-college library hardcover in original binding (has library markings but not much evidence of use). More
How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
Harvard University Press, February 2009. Hardcover. 12mo. A Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ has shelfwear, rubbing, and edgewear. Book has a cocked spine, some creases on the pages, and a former owner's stamp on the title page. Interior is otherwise clean, unmarked, and tight. More
From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir
Lawrence Hill Books, March 1999. Trade Paperback. 8vo.- over 7 3/4 in. - 9 3/4 in. 313pp., illustrated with a b/w photograph insert. A clean copy in Near Fine condition with just a touch of shelfwear; the spine is tight and uncreased. // 'After being raped by her employer's husband..... More
Trayvon: On The Dawn Of Freedom
Nancy Musinguzi, 2014. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition.B/W Photographs. More
The Negro In the Making Of America
Collier Books, 1968. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. A Good copy with some wear to wraps and edges. Clean bright and unmarked eighth printing. More