New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; 222pp. Light wear and shallow creasing along jacket extremities, spine slightly cocked, faint soiling to top textblock edge with a couple light waterspots to bottom, else Very Good and sound. Posthumously-published novel..... More
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994. First Paperback Edition (published simultanously in cloth). Signed by author with inscription to Emmett Curran. Octavo; xxix + 404pp. Three-color coated paper. Textblock clean and unmarked. Documents by 78 eyewitness of the 16th-19th century Southern experience, some celebrated, many not. Includes statements from..... More
London: Women's Press Ltd., 1994. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; ix,[3],290pp. Light shelf wear, most notable at jacket spine foot, corners very gently bumped, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Includes a preface by the author. More
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1945. Second Printing. [Publications of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society Vol III] Octavo; x + 126pp, including appendices and bibliography. Burgundy cloth with gold lettering on spine. Cloth mildly soiled, with some scratches, and nudging to crown and foot of sunned spine. Lettering darkened on spine..... More
Don Mills, CA: General Publishing Co. Limited, 1977. Stated First Printing. Octavo. 191 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. Light wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket with a couple short closed tears. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
Paris: Alexandre Cadot, 1856. First Edition. Small octavo (16cm.); contemporary brown calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled endpapers; 320pp. Boards a bit scuffed at extremities with some exposure, chiefly at corners, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown and slightly latter rubber-stamps to title page a few internal leaves, stock uniformly..... More
Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 378 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Maroon boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is heavily chipped along edges with some light general staining. Boards are lightly worn at edges with some staining near top of spine. Binding is sound..... More
![Aunt [ant] Phyllis. Beverly J. Robinson](/pictures/thumb/003793.jpg?v=1549995595)
First Edition. Paperback. Los Angeles: Women's Graphic Center, 1982. First Edition. Quarto (8.5" x 7"); vi, 42p. Side-stapled photographic paper wraps. Covers show a small, clean tear at top front with some light fading and toning along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Folklorist's short study of..... More
First Edition. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. Octavo. 215 pages. Stated First Printing. Inscribed by author to previous owner on the title page. Textured yellow boards in maroon cloth with maroon topstain. Unclipped dust jacket is creased at spine ends and lightly soiled along bottom edge. Book is..... More
Palo Alto, CA: P.E.L. Printers, 1979. Fourth Edition. Side-stapled wraps. 63 pages. Black and white photographs. An entirely different set of poems from the 1976 self-published edition. Many poems also addressed to the titular black girl and touching on similar themes of race, femininity, and education. Light toning..... More
Palo Alto, CA: P.E.L. Printers, 1979. Fourth Edition. Side-stapled wraps. 63 pages. Black and white photographs. An entirely different set of poems from the 1976 self-published edition. Many poems also addressed to the titular black girl and touching on similar themes of race, femininity, and education. Toned at..... More
Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1986. First Edition. Octavo; xxiii + 387pp., including notes, bibliography, and index. Fifteen B&W documentary photographs, additional maps, and 21 statistical tables. Photographic dust jacket. Sage green boards with black lettering on celadon spine. Almost as new. Dust jacket unmarred; textblock without marks..... More
First Edition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo; 212 pp. Pictorial dust jacket. Brown cloth binding with lettering stamped in orange. Ex-library with Library of Congress Duplicate stamp on front free endpaper and on copyright page, but with no other library markings. Dust jacket is crisp..... More
![Black Fire: A Story of Henri Christophe [Roland B. Scott copy]. Covelle Newcomb, Avery Johnson](/pictures/thumb/5892.jpg?v=1578514792)
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1943. Second Printing. Octavo. 276 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with Avery Johnson wrap-around illustration. Beige boards stamped in black on spine with figure holding a machete stamped on front. Dust jacket is chipped at spine ends with rubbing along edges. Spine is..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Stated First Edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.5"); 213p. Blue cloth with black cloth spine and silver lettering. Missing dustjacket. Covers lightly edgeworn with scuffs at corners, spine ends, and lettering, along with some faint staining on back. Binding is sound and..... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 170 pages. Printed wraps. Charts and graphs. Staff study number 12 prepared for the Advisory Committee on Education. Wraps are rubbed and stained. Rear wrap and three pages creased and dogeared. Sound in binding and pages unmarked. More
![The Sylvan Cabin: A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse [Signed]. Edward Smyth...](/pictures/thumb/7214.jpg?v=1599502154)
Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1911. First Edition. Signed by Jones on dedication page with "29 Holyoke St. Boston, Mass.," under his name. Octavo. 96 pages. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Edward Smyth Jones had already published one book of poetry when he..... More
Philadelphia: T. Allwood Chapman, 1861. Octavo. 240 pages. Brown boards blind stamped front and rear and spine lettered in gilt. Elias Hicks was an influential Quaker minister and anti-slavery activist, advocating for a consumer boycott of slave-produced goods, and helping bring about the abolition of slavery in his..... More
![Sister [Signed]. Eloise Greenfield, Moneta Barnett](/pictures/thumb/000978.jpg?v=1591285217)
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "For black truth / faith / purpose, Eloise Greenfield. Jan. 15, 1975." Octavo; 83 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price intact; book in drab yellow cloth with..... More
![American Daughter [Roland B. Scott copy]. Era Bell Thompson](/pictures/thumb/6603.jpg?v=1594842636)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo. 301 pages. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in black. Red topstain. Jacket is chipped at extremities with a few smaller punctures and closed tears to spine and flaps, and some general toning and spotting. Boards lightly faded at spine..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1895. First Edition. Small 12mo (15cm.); publisher's grey-green pictorial cloth stamped in dark blue and pink; [4],147pp.; frontispiece. Light shelf wear, corners gently bumped, hairline crack to front hinge, title page cleanly separating about an inch down from top along gutter, contemporary ownership..... More
Fairfax: Frances Holloway Wynne, 1983. Octavo; x, 219pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. No dustjacket, assumed as issued. Covers lightly edgeworn with a scratch to cloth at front center and a slight roll to spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Verbatim transcriptions of the two..... More
![Arias in Silence [Signed Bookplate Laid in]. Gordon Parks](/pictures/thumb/9211.jpg?v=1618344748)
Boston: Bulfinch Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First Edition (stated). Bookplate signed by Parks loosely laid in at front. Oblong quarto. 128 pp. Color photographs throughout. Photographic dust jacket. Beige boards stamped in dark green. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges with some light intermittent spotting..... More
Evanson, IL: Recency Books, 1961. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 160pp. Light shelf wear, tiny chip at spine crown, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper quality, neat contemporary ownership signature of a Victor Lanctis to title and dedication pages, else Very Good and sound, free of..... More
Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1995. Second Edition. Octavo. 735 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Black boards with spine stamped in white and front stamped in white with red label. Light wear to corners, with a slight roll to spine. Sticker to rear board. Binding is sound and pages..... More