Slaves in the Family
Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 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
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
Brown Sugar: Over 100 Years of America's Black Female Superstars (New and Updated Edition)
Continuum, June 2007. Trade Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A good used copy (has some reading wear). More
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
New York, NY: Random House, 2021. First American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. As new condition book and DJ. First edition with number line starting at 1. More
Making Revolution: My Life in the Black Panther Party
Heyday, August 2021. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" new! More
How to Love a Black Man
Grand Central Publishing, February 1997. Trade 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
University Press of Mississippi, October 1995. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. As New condition. 272 pp. More
The South, The Civil War, Negroes and Slavery (Catalogue 97)
The Company, January 1975. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. VG- [70] pages (unpaginated). Sales catalogue of the firm, containing 1431 numbered lots in all (plus an additional 6); date is conjectural (not dated in book). Slight rubbing to spine (cloth tape) and wrappers; slight..... 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
Black Carib Household Structure: A Study of Migration and Modernization
University of Washington Press, 1972. 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
Marxism and Negro Liberation
New Century Publishers, January 1951. First Edition. Trade 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 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. First Edition. 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..... 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
How to Survive America: A Prescription
Custom House, 2021. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" A fine hardcover first edition in jacket. 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
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
Black Manhattan
Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. Trade 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, 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
He Freed Britain's Slaves
Herald Pr, June 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slight browning and rubbing to jacket; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers. 206, [2] pages. Story of William Wilberforce's campaign against the slave trade in Great Britain. Signed by Ludwig in blue ink on front..... More
A Guide to the Archives of Hampton Institute (Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies)
Greenwood, October 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Book is in very good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear. Interior is clean with a tight spine. More
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
Worthy Books, 2021. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. A fine hardcover first edition in jacket. More
The Negro in Southern Agriculture
International Publishers, January 1953. First Edition. Trade 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.8 b/w Charts. More