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
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
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
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
![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
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Reprint. Octavo. 648 pages. Brown boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Full title continues: Including a Classified Summary of the Legislation of the Thirty-Ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-First Congresses. With the Votes Thereon; Together with the Action, Congressional and State, on the..... 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
First Edition. New York: Dial Press, 1971. Stated First Printing. Octavo. 245 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $6.95 price; book in brown faux-marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket heavily worn along edges and chipped at spine ends, with a clean 1.5" tear tracing upwards from bottom of..... 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
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
[Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press, [1947]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket printed in brown; xvi,254pp.; illus. throughout by Joseph V. Rigsby. Some light shelf wear, shallow chipping at spine crown, rear panel and spine lettering quite toned, contemporary ownership signature to half title verso..... More