![Item #46591 [Handbill] Lew Leslie's 1940 Edition of Rhapsody in Black. 125th Street Apollo](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46591.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767038054)
New York: 125th Street Apollo, 1940. Broadsheet handbill (14x22cm); halftone photographic illus. Light foxing, tiny crease to bottom right-hand edge, else Very Good. Handbill promoting the updated 1940 edition of Lew Leslie's musical review "Rhapsody in Black" at the 125th Street Apollo in Harlem, home of "America's Smartest Colored..... More
![Item #47486 De Mojo Blues: De Quest of HighJohn de Conqueror [Review Copy, Inscribed and Signed]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/47486.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1774914264)
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1985. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [8],216pp. Very light shelf wear, spine slightly cocked and corners nudged, else a Very Good or better example. Review copy with promotional literature, review slip, and author portrait laid..... More
Providence, RI: Matrix, 1981. Stated First Edition. Oblong octavo (20cm); 80pp. Publisher’s photographic dust jacket; stiff white wrappers; red endsheets. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Dust jacket bumped, scuffed, smudged, and toned. Boards a bit bumped and toned. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets clean; interior pages lightly toned at edges. Previous owner’s..... More
![Item #29419 Wayward Child: A Personal Odyssey [Inscribed and Signed]. Addison Gayle Jr](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/29419.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1713476998)
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press / Doubleday, [1977]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in black pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95); [10],182pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins with subsequent wrinkling, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title page..... More
Minden, LA: 1931. Original black and white photograph (15.5x25.5cm.) depicting the girls' basketball team alongside their coach Mr. Russ, each player identified in ink manuscript along bottom of image. Photograph slightly curled with very small flaw at bottom of image, else Very Good overall. Misidentifying manuscript label mounted to verso..... More
Tulsa, OK: n.d. [ca. 1940]. Pictorial business card (6x10cm.) printed on pink card stock. Light toning to margins, old red wax remnants to verso, else Very Good. "Clean, Comfortable, Convenient" reads the hotel's logo. Located at 615 E. Archer St. in the heart of Tulsa's historic Greenwood neighborhood..... More
New York: B. Shackman & Co., 1998. Reprint. Quarto (28.5cm); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; [12]pp.; color illus. throughout. Remnants of old price sticker to rear cover, else a Near Fine example. Reproduction of a rare 1955 paper doll kit of two Black children and their outfits (nightgown, Cowboy..... More
N.p.: ca. 1910, though photographs developed ca. 1950. Oblong octavo (15x21cm.); hand-made photo album of contemporary ribbon-bound linen boards; [12]ll. of stiff card stock to which are mounted twenty-four (24) cyanotype photographs measuring ca. 9.5x12cm, occasionally captioned with ballpoint pen. Boards a bit bowed, minor soil to binding and interior..... More
Oakland, CA: Afrikan Peoples Alliance, n.d., [ca. 1974]. First Edition. Pictorial broadside flyer (21.5x28cm) printed offset on cream stock. Previous folds, brief soiling and red dampspot to verso, else Very Good. Invitation to a fundraising dinner at the Breakfast Club on 4606 Grove St. (renamed Martin Luther King..... More
![Item #46163 A Sister's Face [Inscribed and Signed]. Akwasi O. Agyeman](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46163.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1764083381)
Washington, DC: Akwasi O. Agyeman, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (23cm); publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; [2],22pp. Wrappers significantly toned and rather dust-soiled, shallow dog-earing to bottom fore-edge corner of textblock; About Very Good. Inscribed and signed on title page, "Peace + Love / Kwasi." Uncommon poetry collection..... More
![Item #46594 [Handbill] The Al T.N.T. Braggs Show. Al "T N. T." Braggs](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46594.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1767038197)
N.p.: s.i., n.d., [ca. 1960s]. Broadside handbill (28x22cm); halftone photographic illus., decorative text printed offset in red. Moderate wear to margins from handling, previous folds, light tonging; About Very Good. Handbill promoting the Al T.N.T. Braggs show which featured Al, James, and Floyd Braggs as well as "Miss Soul"..... More
![Item #33913 Hirschfeld's Harlem [Review Copy]. Al Hirschfeld, William Saroyan, Gail Lumet...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33913.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755897414)
New York: Glenn Young Books, 2004. First Edition with full number line. Quarto; publisher's cloth in bright yellow pictorial dust jacket; 127pp.; illus. throughout, many in color. A hint of shelf wear and dust-soil to textblock edge, else Near Fine. Review copy with slip and promotional materials laid in... More
![Item #47941 Black Box 2 [Signed by Ishamel Reed]. Alan Austin, Ishmael Reed, Ortiz Walton, Robert...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/47941.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1778253994)
Washington DC: The New Classroom [Watershed Foundation], 1972. Set of two white cassette tapes housed in a white cardboard box. (18.5x11cm) Cover design by Hunter W. Jones printed in black on cover and spine. Blue paste-down on verso has original $7.95 price and lists contributors. Box toned with some edgewear..... More
New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / Distributed by E.P. Dutton, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. 227 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$6.95" price present. Green boards with white lettering to spine; blue endpapers. Dust jacket worn and creased along edges with general scuffing. Boards show light shelfwear, mildly nudged..... More
New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / E.P. Dutton, 1970. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in blue and white decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); [12],227pp. Light wear to jacket margins, else a Very Good or better, bright and sound copy. Signed by the author on half title page... More
Garden City: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1973. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with $6.95 price intact; boards in blindstamped blue and gray cloth with black lettering to spine; 192pp; illus by the author throughout. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, with some smudging..... More
New York: The Bookery Publishing Company, 1914. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's red over green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; 512pp.; portrait frontispiece of Frederick Douglass with tissue guard. Light wear to edges; spotting to front board; a few scuffs and smudges; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. ... More
![Item #48950 The Color Purple [Signed]. Alice Walker](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48950.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785208455)
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. Later Printing. Octavo (22cm); 245 pp. Publisher's binding in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with $11.95 price present. Original price stamped on front free endpaper. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket clean and bright with minor edge wear; scuff on back panel but text..... More
![Item #48951 The Color Purple [Signed]. Alice Walker](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48951.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785209264)
New York: Washington Square Press / Pocket Books, 1983. Later printing. Octavo (21cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 251 pp. Wrappers are rubbed with some small chips to head and foot of spine; spine crease. Some scuffing and rubbing to wrappers; back panel toned. Small puncture mark on back wrapper goes through..... More
Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1972. First Edition; one of 500 copies. Slim octavo booklet (21cm); [4]pp. Cream-colored paper with purple text; single sheet folded. Toned at edges and centerfold. Near Fine. A collection of five poems that would be included in Walker’s Revolutionary Petunias, published by Harcourt the..... More
![Item #33834 Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning [Signed]. Alice Walker](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/33834.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753815650)
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21cm); publisher's dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; red boards and blue cloth spine with gilt lettering; [viii],53pp. Ex-District of Columbia Public Library, with the usual markings. Jacket in mylar cover and affixed to pastedowns, but is clean..... More
New York: Dial Press, [1979]. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped dust jacket; vi,53pp. Corners gently tapped, else Just About Fine. Lovely copy of Walker's third poetry collection preceding "The Color Purple" by three years. More
![Item #48946 In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens [Signed]. Alice Walker](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48946.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785208021)
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. First Edition stated. Octavo (21.5cm); unclipped pictorial dust jacket over publisher's purple binding; title stamped in gilt to spine; 397 pp. Jacket toned with light rubbing and edge wear; head of jacket and spine bumped; boards sunned with some smudging. Binding sound. Pages clean..... More
![Item #48949 Once: Poems [Signed]. Alice Walker](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/48949.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1785209730)
San Diego: Harvest/HBJ Book; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. Later printing. Octavo (20cm); 81 pp. Pictorial paper wrappers. Wrappers rubbed with some creasing to corners. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Overall, Very Good condition. Signed on title page by Alice Walker without inscription. Walker's first book, first published..... More
![Item #45381 Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems [Signed]. Alice Walker](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/45381.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1759871163)
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); [10],70pp. Closed tear at top edge of rear jacket panel with old tape repair, light wear to cloth margins, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy of..... More