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
Black Studies
Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970
Indiana University Press, February 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First edition in dust jacket - signed by author. Jacket has closed tears to edges and minor wear. 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
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
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
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
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
Anthology of American Negro Literature
Modern Library, 1944. Hardcover. A Very Good ocpy. Bookhas shelfwear, edgewear, bumped cornrs, soiling to covers and edges of text block, sunning to spine, and a former owner's plate and name on the inside front cover and front endpaper. No dustjacket. Interior is otherwise clean, unmarked, and tight. Includes work..... 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
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
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
Black city stage (Pendle Hill pamphlet, 162)
Pendle Hill Publications, January 1968. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. VG stapled paperback. Slight rubbing to wrappers; slight internal browning to edges. 31 pages. Concise history of the Center-Stage project in Philadelphia, outlining 3 of its productions ('Time to Go, Joe', 'Street Scene' and..... More
Alice Princess: An Autobiography
Pacific Press Pub. Association, January 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG/G signed hardcover presentation copy. vii, [1], 166, [2] pages. Story of the indigenous Malawian and her adoption by the American couple Lowell and Josephine Edwards. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed (both as 'Alice..... More
A Five Year Odyssey
Center for Urban-Black Studies, January 1975. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 24pp., with color printed wraps. A concise survey of the various projects undertaken by the Center in its first 5 years, 1969-74 (courses, community ministries, etc). One of an unspecified number of copies..... More
Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
Cleis Press, March 2015. Trade Paperback. A clean copy with a b/w photograph insert. In Near Fine condition. More
Trayvon: On The Dawn Of Freedom
Nancy Musinguzi, 2014. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good condition.B/W Photographs. 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
Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon
Ecco, November 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Near Fine condition in Near Fine dust jacket. Some margin markings in pencil. Light shelfwear. 258 pp. More
Imagining Black America
Yale University Press, February 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. A very good copy of the first edition hardcover in jacket. Sight wear; text is clean and unmarked. 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
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
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
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
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