New York: Dial Press, 1945. First Edition. Octavo. 218 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$2.50" price present. Grey boards with spine stamped in black and gilt. Powell represented Harlem as Congressman from 1945 - 1970. This book recounts instances of economic discrimination against African Americans, and begins..... More
First Edition. New York: Vantage Press, 1982. Stated First Edition. SIGNED by author Adele B. McQueen with brief inscription to a friend above Foreword. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"); xii, 91p. Illustrated dustjacket over green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Price-clipped dustjacket shows a small, clean tear at top front with..... 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
Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. 201 pages. Black and white photographs. Unclipped dust jacket over red cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Jacket lightly chipped along edges, with a sticker to rear panel; and some toning to edges. Boards lightly worn at corners, with front..... 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
Hardcover. New York: The Exposition Press, 1948. Octavo; 162pp. Brick cloth-covered boards with dark red lettering. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with chipping and nudging to spine ends and bumps to corners, along with a few stray smudges to cloth. Boards open easily but binding is secure. Pages 115-124 folded..... More
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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
Boston: Hertel, Jenkins & Co., 1907. First Edition. Octavo. 379 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout and all accounted for. Red cloth; front ruled in black, stamped in white, now faded almost entirely to clear. Title stamped in black with title blind stamped. Heavy wear and soiling to..... More
Second Edition. Washington, D.C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1919. Second Edition. Octavo; 454pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Dampstain tracing along entirety of bottom front and back edges, not involving text or interior, with some bumping to corners and spine..... 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
First Edition, Second Printing. New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1963. Stated Second Printing. SIGNED by the author on front free endpaper with inscription: "Harold -- Baby -- I never intended Write This Book off The Top of my Head. Just for the option money. Bitter. Charles W." Signed again..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. Stated First American Edition (preceded by a 1964 French Edition). Octavo; 223pp. Printed dust jacket with original $4.50 price; book in quarter black cloth and red paper-covered boards with white lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few tiny tears and some..... 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
[N.p.]: [self-published by author], 1976. First Edition. Side-stapled wraps. Black and white illustrations. 24 unnumbered pages. Chapbook with many poems addressed to a black girl navigating such issues as feminism, dating, slavery, and drug abuse. Wraps are a trifle soiled with some pencil annotations to front cover and..... 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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925. Stated First Edition, with code H-Z on copyright page. Small Octavo. 108 pages. Yellow cloth spine with black, red, and yellow patterned paper over boards. Previous owner's bookplate attached to front pastedown. Spine and label are darkened and boards are worn at edges, heavily..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Later Printing with I-C code (September 1928). Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo; 108pp. Illustrations by Charles Cullen (no relation to the author). Publisher's patterned black paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and title cards to front and spine..... More
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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. New York: Abrams, 1993. First Edition. SIGNED without inscription by author, Deborah Willis-Braithwaite on title page. Signature reads "Deborah Willis." Previous owner's initials written on rear pastedown, else fine. Light creasing to edges of dust jacket, else fine. A remarkable look into the life and work of the..... 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
Paperback. Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1974. Mass market paperback, #BH464; 217p +7p ads. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly bumped and creased at corners, with some rubbing along edges and some general toning an smudging. Spine creased vertically but unbroken. Pages toned but unmarked. One of the last novels..... More
First Edition. New York: Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan, 1976. First Edition, signed by Donald Hall and Dock Ellis with brief inscriptions on front free endpaper. Octavo; 254pp. Printed dustjacket over black paper-covered boards with purple cloth spine and gilt lettering. Ex-library copy but remarkably free of library markings..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: PublicAffairs, 2003. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author "Best Wishes to Margaret Mellon" on bookplate attached to front free endpaper. Octavo; 322pp. Photo-portrait dust jacket with original $26.00 price; book in drab yellow paper-covered boards with brown paper spine and bronze..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1992. First Edition. Signed by Jones on title page to Carol Joy Smith. Octavo; 250 pages. Illustrated unclipped dust jacket. Black boards in black cloth with spine stamped in silver. Carol Joy Smith was Director of the National Advisory Committee on Black Higher..... More