![Item #14700 March: Book Two [Inscribed and Signed by Lewis and Aydin]. Andrew Aydin John Lewis,...](/pictures/thumb/14700.jpg?v=1670336529)
Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions, 2015. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; 187pp.; chiefly illus. Just About Fine condition. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Nita! Andrew Aydin," as well as "Keep the faith, John Lewis." The second volume in..... More
![Item #14594 Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement [Signed note laid in]. John Lewis,...](/pictures/thumb/14594.jpg?v=1669135631)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Note signed by John Lewis with brief inscription to previous owner on lined notebook paper loosely laid in . Large octavo. 496 pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to dust jacket and moderate..... More
![Item #12324 Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement [Signed]. John Lewis, Michael D'Orso](/pictures/thumb/12324.jpg?v=1644612656)
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company / A Harvest Book, 1999. Later printing. Signed by John Lewis without inscription on half title page. Octavo. 526 pp. Black and white photographs. Photographic wraps. Washington Informer sticker to inside of front cover and promotional palm card for "A Conversation with Civil Rights..... More
Hardcover. Cleveland: The Argyle Publishing Co., 1924. Later printing. Octavo; 149pp. 16 mounted portraits, all present. Black cloth-covered boards with white stamped lettering. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with lettering rubbed away on spine and partially so on front. Boards open a bit shakily, but binding is secure..... More
Los Angeles, CA: The John Henry and Mary Louisa Dunn Bryant Foundation, 1970. Fifth printing. Slim octavo. 31-57 pp, with pagination beginning on 31, as indicated in table of contents. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Edgewear to wraps with staining and discoloration to front and rear. Chip..... More
Philadelphia and New York: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Universe Publishing, 1993. Quarto (28x22x1.5cm); xiii + 210pp, including chronology, list of known works, bibliography, and index. Color art reproductions and B&W documentary photographs throughout. Illustrated card covers. Both covers and textblock clean and crisp; card spine uncreased..... More
![Item #25949 Slow Coins Minted by Julia Fields [Inscribed and Signed with Autograph Note Laid in]....](/pictures/thumb/25949.jpg?v=1678825262)
[Washington, DC]: Three Continents Press, [1981]. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Octavo; publisher's glossy grey pictorial card wrappers; [10],206pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear and soil from handling, else Very Good. Substantial poetry collection by the Alabama-born author, inscribed and signed inside upper cover: "To Joe Johnson with respect and honor..... More
Auburn / Rochester: Alden, Beardsley & Co. / Wanzer, Beardsley & Co., 1854. First Edition and second in the series. Octavo. 309 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Frontis portraits, including Douglass. Brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt decoration to front and spine. A collection of "Anti-Slavery Testimonies" from the Rochester..... More
New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1968. Stated First Printing. Octavo. 160 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket is price-clipped, rubbed along edges, with one small closed tear each to top of front and rear panels. Spine is a touch faded. Dark grey cloth boards with silver..... More
Washington, DC: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Octavo. [16] pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated wraps. Very mild curling to corners of wraps, binding sound, and pages unmarked. Scarce with three holdings in OCLC and no copies in retail..... More
[N.p.]: Austin Jenkins Co., [ca. 1919]. Presumed First Edition with no additional printings listed, "Austin Jenkins Co." to spine, and no publisher listed at title page. Octavo. xiii, 17-600, 705-712 [20 pp. terms of peace; 8 pp. chronology of war]. Note at foot of p. 705 reads "X 104 pages..... More
New York: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago et al. / Skira Rizzoli, 2017. Fourth Printing. Quarto. 289 p. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Grey cloth stamped in black with mounted color illustration to front. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Boards slightly cocked and..... More
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. First Edition. Oblong quarto (11.5 x 8.5"); 23pp. Photos throughout. Photo-illustrated boards with green cloth spine and black lettering. Boards heavily rubbed with exposure at corners and spine ends, with splits starting at bottoms of both joints. Spine cocked. Creasing to back pastedown along gutter..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Paperback Edition. Inscribed by author on half title: "For Bill & Harriett—With love—Larry." Octavo; xii + 372pp, including index. Coated, three-color, photographic card covers. Micro-peeling of coating at fore-edge of covers, front and back. Two inch vertical liquid stain, very narrow, at right..... More
![Item #12861 Black Music [Signed]. Leroi Jones, a k. a. Amiri Baraka](/pictures/thumb/12861.jpg?v=1649947151)
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1968. Later printing. Signed by Baraka at half title with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 222 pp. Black and white Illustrated wraps. Wraps edgeworn with some creasing. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall a very good copy. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 670 pp. Printed dust jacket with $8.95 price present. Black and yellow boards stamped in orange. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn with some general creasing and toning; library call number sticker to spine. Boards..... More
![Item #12491 What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. [Signed Pamphlet Laid in]....](/pictures/thumb/12491.jpg?v=1645725794)
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Pamphlet to a 2007 National Archives event laid in at front and signed by Bennett with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 227 pp. + appendices. Black and white photographs. Photographic dust jacket with "$4.95" price intact. Gray boards stamped in black..... More
![Item #000714 The Shame of Southern Politics: Essays and Speeches [Signed]. Leslie Dunbar, Dan T....](/pictures/thumb/000714.jpg?v=1658337635)
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2002. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "To Bill Taylor, civil rights champion, Leslie Dunbar." Octavo; xxvi + 175pp. Photographic dust jacket. White boards with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket as new. Boards are pristine with..... More
Clayton, GA: South Today, 1943. First Edition, reprinted from Winter Edition of South Today 1942-1943. Octavo. 12 pages. Side-stapled wraps. Covers show light toning and wear along edges. Secure in binding. Pages clean and unmarked. Smith was a critic of the Southern United States on racial and..... More
![Item #8336 Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Caroline Memoir [Signed]. Mamie Garvin Fields, Karen...](/pictures/thumb/8336.jpg?v=1614287510)
New York: The Free Press / A Division of Macmillan, Inc., 1983. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by Mamie Garvin Fields and Karen Fields on front free endpaper to a previous owner and dated 1983. Octavo. 250 pages. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in..... More
First Edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. First Edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.5"); xii, 200 pages. Illustrated boards. Ex-library with discarded stamp to front free endpaper and library marking blacked out on top edge, but no other library markings or additions. Light shelfwear to covers with a few faint smudges..... More
![Item #13107 Let the Circle Be Unbroken [Signed and Inscribed]. Mildred D. Taylor](/pictures/thumb/13107.jpg?v=1652362184)
New York: Dial Books, 1981. Fourth Printing. Signed by the author on full title with inscription "Best wishes to Jennifer & Alicia! Mildred D. Taylor (1988)." Octavo; [vi], 394pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $15.95 price; bound in blue paper-covered boards with ivory cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket rubbed..... More
![Item #14363 Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 [Signed]. Morris J. MacGregor Jr](/pictures/thumb/14363.jpg?v=1666010952)
Washington, DC: Center of Military History / United States Army, 1981. First Edition, stated First Printing. Large, thick octavo; publisher's orange cloth, front cover stamped in gilt, black and gilt spine titling; xx,647pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Spine crease from use with spine a bit cocked, light shelf wear with some..... More
New York: Phaidon Press Inc., / New Museum, 2019. First Edition. Quarto; 201 pp. Color and black and white photographs throughout. Illustrated boards stamped in copper. Black endpapers; illustrated edges. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Corners bumped and front board slightly bowed. Binding is sound and pages..... More
![Item #12895 Dawn [Signed Uncorrected Page Proofs]. Octavia Butler](/pictures/thumb/12895.jpg?v=1650986965)
New York: Warner Books, Inc., 1987. Uncorrected Proof copy. Signed by Butler without inscription on title page. Octavo. 264 pp. Gray card wrappers, with titling and publication info printed in black on front cover. Publisher's trial dustjacket without text on flaps or rear panel, and measuring approx. 1 cm taller..... More