Slaves in the Family
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A very good first edition hardcover in jacket. More
Black Studies
The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Book is in very good condition. General shelf and handling wear. Interior is clean with a tight spine. More
Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America's Black Female Superstars (New and Updated Edition)
Continuum, 2007. Expanded Edition. Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A good used copy (has some reading wear). More
The Mis-Education of the Negro
Vertvolta Press, 2018. Reprint. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" NEW! More
A Five Year Odyssey
Berkeley, CA: Center for Urban-Black Studies, 1975. 9 b/w Photographs; 1 Decoration (red/black; Upper wrapper). First Edition. 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..... More
How to Love a Black Man
Grand Central Publishing, 1997. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A rough reading copy - spine and covers show creasing and wear; numerous page corners folded; some ink marking to text. More
Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature : Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper
Jackson, MS, U.S.A. University Press of Mississippi, 1995. First Thus. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As New condition. 272 pp. More
Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature : Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper
Jackson, MS, U.S.A. University Press of Mississippi, 1995. First Thus. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As New condition. 272 pp. More
Yaradee: A Plea for Africa, in Familiar Conversations on the Subject of Slavery and Colonization
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Reprint. 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
Black Carib Household Structure: A Study of Migration and Modernization
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1972. Second Printing. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good condition in Good dust jacket. Clean interior. Some scuffing and shallow chips/tears to exterior and edges of jacket. 163 pp. More
Psychiatric Aspects of School Desegregation
[New York]: Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, 1957. First Edition. 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
Marxism and Negro Liberation
New York: New Century Publishers, 1951. First Edition. Paperback. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 24pp. Saddle-stapled wraps. Clipped title page; slight stains/rubbing to covers, some pencil underlining. More
Out of Indochina! Freedom for Angela Davis! : Our Goals for 1971 and How to Win Them
New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1971. First Edition, Second Printing. Paperback (stapled). 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..... More
Survival in the Square
Northridge, CA: Brooke-Richards Press, 1989. 6 b/w Illustrations (chiefly Portrait photographs). First Edition. 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...... More
In the Cage: Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good in jacket (jacket has surface and edge wear). More
Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970
Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" First edition in dust jacket - signed by author. Jacket has closed tears to edges and minor wear. More
Black Manhattan
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In Very Good condition with some wear (light chipping to wraps; bumping to spine and corners; scuffing to front endpaper; very light soiling to fore-edge); else a clean, tight copy. More
James Weldon Johnson: Writings
Library of America, 2004. First Printing. 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
Hampton, VA: The Author, 1970. First Edition, Second Printing. 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
A Guide to the Archives of Hampton Institute (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies)
Westport: Greenwood, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Book is in very good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear. Interior is clean with a tight spine. More
Several Lives of Chester Himes
Jackson, MS, U.S.A. University Press of Mississippi, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good condition in Very Good dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Text is clean and unmarked. Light shelfwear to jacket. 209 pp. More
The Negro in Southern Agriculture
New York: International Publishers, 1953. 8 b/w Charts. First Edition. Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good+ in wraps (rub/stns to wraps; few sigs shaken; few annots). 8vo 128 Ex amination of the plantation system, sharecropping, etc, since World War II. More
Black City Stage (Pendle Hill Pamphlet; 162)
Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 1968. First Edition. 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
Mountain View, CA / Omaha, NE: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1965. Over 30 b/w Photographs. 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..... More