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 about West African Cooking for Black American Families
5th Printing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Fifth Printing. 12mo. 449 pages. Part of the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers Series. Navy cloth with spine and front stamped in gilt. Pages 4 and 5 creased. A sound copy. More about Selected Works of Angelina Weld Grimke
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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 about Aunt [ant] Phyllis
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 about The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861: A History of the Education of the Colored People of the...
First Edition. Washington, D.C. / Philadelphia: The United States Supreme Council Southern Jurisdiction / The Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, 1977. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on front pastedown. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); xvii, 237p. Black cloth with gold lettering and design. Covers slightly leaning, with... More about Prince Hall: Life and Legacy
First Edition. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. First Edition. Signed by Tracy K. Smith without inscription on first page of her contribution. Small Quarto; ix, 847-1101pp +7 ads. Printed paper wraps. Covers lightly edgeworn with light bumping to corners and spine ends and a few faint smudges. Binding is... More about Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters (Vol 27 No 4
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 about Absolutely Nothing To Get Alarmed About
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 about The Messenger
First Edition. Hardcover. 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... More about Cotton Comes to Harlem
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Paperback. Milano: Longanesi & C., 1968. I Gialli Proibiti (The Forbidden Yellows) #5. Italian language. Mass market paperback; 239p. In shrinkwrap. Very faint rubbing at corners, else covers are clean, bright, and crisp. Spine is straight and unbroken. Italian translation of Cottom Comes to Harlem, the sixth in Himes's Harlem... More about Harlem [trans. of Cotton Comes to Harlem
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 about Forty Acres and A Mule
First Edition. Cleveland: The Cleveland Poetry Center, 1994. First Edition, published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. Signed by the author with brief inscription dated 11.30.95 on full title. Octavo; 76pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly bumped at corners and spine ends with some vertical creasing along spine. Binding is... More about Nothing in Nature is Private
First Edition. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. First Edition with full numberline. Signed twice by the author, once on front free endpaper and again on full title, both with the inscription "To Harold, Stay Strong & Prophetic! In Struggle, Cornel West." Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"); [xiv], 105p. Photographic dustjacket with original... More about Race Matters
First Edition. 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... More about Color
Charles Cullen. Later Printing. Hardcover. 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... More about Color
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 about VanDerZee: Photographer 1886-1983
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 pages unmarked. More about The Shadow That Scares Me
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 about Daddy Cool
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. Printed dustjacket over black paper-covered boards with purple cloth spine and gilt lettering. Ex-library copy but remarkably free of library markings, with only a withdrawn... More about Dock Ellis: In The Country of Baseball
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 about Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir
First Edition. Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers, 1943. First Edition. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth-covered boards with black lettering. Jacket shows a couple 1.5" tears, one at bottom front near spine and another at top back, along with couple smaller clean tears and rubbing along edges, but is clean... More about Harriet Tubman
First Edition. New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. Stated First Edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); xi, 452p. Illustrated dustjacket with original $25.00 price; book in black paper- and cloth-covered boards with red lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with some sunning to spine but no chips or tears. Boards... More about A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Stated First Edition. Signed by Reed with brief inscription on full title. Quarto (11.25" x 10.25"); 176p. Original dustjacket with $29.95 price; book in gray cloth with black lettering. Jacket is crisp with light edgewear but no chips or tears... More about Black in America
Hardcover. 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... More about Register of Free Negroes and Also of Dower Slaves, Brunswick County, Virginia, 1803-1850
First Edition. Hardcover. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Covers lightly edgeworn with some scuffs to gilt lettering and some general smudging and soiling to face. Front cover opens easily and book opens readily to between a few gatherings, but binding... More about Report From Part One