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James Hedderwick & Son. Glasgow. 1836. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. 8vo. (7.1 x 4.4 inches). 172pp, i (publishers advert). A very good, uncut copy in the publishers brown morocco grained cloth with printed paper label to the spine. Several gatherings unopened. A little chipping to the label but overall a very good clean copy of this uncommon First UK edition. --------- Channing (1780-1842) initially held a common American belief about the inferiority of African people and slaves and felt that that once freed, they would need overseers. The overseers (largely former slave masters) were necessary because the slaves would lapse into laziness. Furthermore, he did not join the abolitionist movement because he did not agree with their way of conducting themselves, and he felt that voluntary associations limited a person's autonomy. Therefore, he often chose to remain separate from organisations and reform movements. This middle position characterised his attitude about most questions, although his eloquence…
Read More The Pillar of Society, Constitution and By-Laws, Burial Tribute, Jubilee Day Service - Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine Of North and South America And Jurisdiction Collection by Jackson, Raymond; Barnes, J. W.; Thompson, Victor A.; and others - 1945
by Jackson, Raymond; Barnes, J. W.; Thompson, Victor A.; and others
The Pillar of Society, Constitution and By-Laws, Burial Tribute, Jubilee Day Service - Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine Of North and South America And Jurisdiction Collection
by Jackson, Raymond; Barnes, J. W.; Thompson, Victor A.; and others
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Pillar booklet: red cover color bled to end pages.� Text readable on all copies.� Damp staining on Burial Tribute. Constitution Very Good, age-tanned.� Jubilee: red transfer to back cover from Ritual booklet.� All but Burial staple bound.� Pillar booklet is 1945, Fifth Edition. Others are from the same time period.� A group of 4 publications formerly owned by a member of the Medina Temple No. 19, and issued by the Imperial Council of the The Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine Of North and South America And Jurisdiction (A. E. A. O. N. M. S). These were secret documents only to be seen by the Nobles of the society and are very rare.�� The Pillar of Society contains old initiation -- a.k.a. hazing -- rituals which have since been declared forbidden by current group leaders. Some of the practices are now illegal in many jurisdictions. Includes: The Pillar of Society...Ritual... [verso of title page] To Be Had Only of the Imperial Recorder, 5th edition 1945; Constitution and By-laws of the Imperial Council of the ..., 1944, Raymond E. Jackson, G. Oscar Carrington, 33rd Imperial Recorder; "Jubilee Day service" written by Noble G. Oscar Carrington, 33rd approved by Imperial Divan Raymond E. Jackson 33rd Imperial Potentate; Charles C. Quander, 33rd Imperial Recorder; Burial Tribute To Be Used at All Funeral Ceremonies, Noble J. W. Barnes No. 12, Past Imperial Potentate; Noble Raymond E. Jackson, No. 61, Imperial Potentate; Noble Adolph G. F. Simmons, Jr., No. 44, Imperial Recorder.� Ritual booklet signed by past owner from whose estate these were obtained.
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SLAVERY. From the Boston (U.S.) second edition, revised by the Author
by CHANNING. WILLIAM E(llery)
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Opera Baritone Todd Duncan Signed Letters
by Duncan, Todd
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, 1954; Two handwritten signed letters from singer/ actor Todd Duncan (1903-1998) addressed to early television director Jerome Shaw. Duncan, the original Porgy in "Porgy and Bess," was Gershwin’s personal choice, singing the role more than 1,800 times. His first operatic performance was in 1945 at the New York City Opera Company as Tonio in Leoncavallo’s "Pagliacci." He taught at Howard University for over fifty years, during which time he continued a rigorous concert performance schedule, logging over 2,000 performances the world over. He was a recipient of the George Peabody Medal, the Donaldson Award, the New York Drama Critic’s Award for "Lost In The Stars," and numerous domestic and foreign honorary awards and degrees. The first letter, dated Feb. 1, 1954, is written on stationery from the Hotel Monticello, Longview, Washington, and is in the original addressed and stamped envelope. In it Duncan at one point makes a pun by advising Shaw not to be consumed by…
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The Liberty Bell 1847
by Friends of Freedom; Chapman, Maria Weston (editor)
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Boston: National Anti-Slavery Bazaar. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, spine sunned, hinges . cracked and tender, shaken.. 1847. Hardcover. Green ruled cloth with liberty bell design stamped in gilt on front boards and titles stamped in gilt on spine, (the "cloth, gilt extra" binding). All edges gilt. viii, 304pp. One of the annual gift books containing poems, prose, and short stories by various authors on the subject of slavery which were compiled by Boston abolitionist Maria Weston Chapman. The books were one of the items sold at annual bazaars that were major fundraisers for the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, This volume contains writings by William Lloyd Garrison, John Quincy Adams, Edmund Quincy, James Russell Lowell, Maria Lowell, Edmund Jackson, Wendell Phillips, David Lee Child, Joseph Mazzini, and many others. Scarce. LCP/HSP 5877.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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How Black Female Offenders Explain Their Crime and Describe Their Hopes: A Case Study of Inmates in a California Prison
by Skiffer, La Tanya
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Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Danny Madrid - Cover Art. Hardcover/ no DJ, VG+ to Near Fine condition. Assume First Edition, c. 2008- no note of further printings. Light brown, color pictorial cloth binding tight, clean & square w/ only light rubbing. NO bumps, chips, fray, sun discolor or scuffs. Cover illus. on front, color photo portrait of author on back & all lettering bright & totally intact.Text is tight, clean & UNmarked. NO names, notes, torn pages, etc.; NOT ex library. Very handsome, well preserved copy. ***Reliable, fast. (74)
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Comer Cottrell: A Story That Will Inspire Future Entrepreneurs
by Cottrell, Comer
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Signed. First Edition. The late Comer Cottrell was an extremely successful Dallas businessman. He was also influential in politics, education, sports and cultural affairs. He was a minority owner of the Texas Rangers, he brought Paul Quinn College to Dallas and he helped elect Mayor Ron Kirk, Dallas' first black mayor. The book is inscribed to the late Joe Atkins, another trailblazing Dallasite, who, in 1955, sued North Texas College for admission on the basis of racial discrimination. In addition, there is a bookmark for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Ellis and Betty Davis. Ellis Davis was basketball coach of Roosevelt H S in Dallas. They named a stadium after him. The book is in fine, unread condition. The dust jacket has a quarter inch tear at the fold on the back flap and there is minor shelf wear. The book is inscribed, dated and signed on the front free end page. An important book with significant associations.
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Old Massas People
by Orland Kay Armstrong
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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931. 1st edition Stated. Near Fine/very good +. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931 1st edition Stated in near fine condition with a very good + dust jacket. Orange cloth with red lettering. The spine is bumped but contents are clean and tight with perhaps some light foxing The dust jacket is not price clipped, has a couple of small closed tears, and quite a bit of fading to the spine. It is in a protective dust jacket.
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Porgy
by Du Bose Heyward
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THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.
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Transition Magazine 36 (July 1968) - includes Ideological Commitment and the Judiciary by Picho Ali
by Neogy, Rajat (ed.), Picho Ali, Ralph Steadman (caricature of Enoch Powell), Chinua Achebe, Peter Enahoro, et al
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Kampala, Uganda: Transition Ltd, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Rare 1968 issue of this seminal African magazine, then published in Uganda. The article in this issue by Picho Ali triggered letters in the next issue and a court case that resulted in the jailing of editor Rajat Neogy and the departure of the magazine from Uganda. Issue also includes a full-page caricature of Enoch Powell by Ralph Steadman, a cartoon referencing the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, writing by Chinua Achebe and Peter Enahoro, other interesting content. Unmarked copy, some bumping and wear.
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. 1860
by Helper, Hinton Rowan
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The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. by Hinton Rowan Helper, of North Carolina. Seventeenth Thousand. New York: A B Burdick, 1860. Thorough analysis of opinions on slavery from the North and South, slaveholder and non slaveholder. Opinions of European nations as well. Also good chapter on the comparison between the free and slave states.Condition: NOT a library book. Impressed covers on brown cloth, original spine piece re-applied during professional restoration. Fresh blended end pages. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision!
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Behold the People: R C Hickman's Photographs of Black Dallas 1949-1961
by Hickman, R. C.
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Signed. Near Fine. Softcover. The late R C Hickman became a professional photographer after WW II. He made a visual record of the black community in Dallas, Texas for 3 decades. He worked for the Dallas Star, Jet Magazine and the NAACP. There are 109 mostly full page black and white photographs. He got photos of important celebrities when they came to Dallas: Martin Luther King, Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Louis and Thurgood Marshall to name a few. His photos of regular folks are the best though. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan wrote the Preface and said, "These are images of the ordinary lives of extraordinary people". The book is in near fine condition with only very slight shelf wear. The dust jacket has a crease on the upper left front. The pages are clean and unmarked, and the corners are square. The author has dated and signed on the title page (no inscription).
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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"Malungu, Ngoma vem!" África encoberta e descoberta no Brasil (Cadernos do Museu da Escravatura No.1)
by Robert W. Slenes
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Rare! Luanda: Angola. Ministério da Cultura, 1995. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Pages and cover securely held by one clean staple. Interior pristine. Covers clean and crisp, with slight reading wear to foreedge. Many B&W photos/illustrations. 24 pages. Not from a library. Published by the Angolan National Museum of Slavery and National Institute of Cultural Patrimony on the 20th anniversary of Angola's independence.
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Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun
by Roark Bradford
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun ( Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man)". 264 pages.. Solid. Clean. Flyleaf detached from title page, but all pages still bound. A great collector's item and a rare find. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A.B. Walker. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction.
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Gone With The Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
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MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."
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The Temple Of My Familiar
by Alice Walker
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Alice Walker. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR. Copyright 1989 by Alice Walker. Thorndyke, Maine. Hardcover, ISBN 9780896219298. Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1990. USED. VG CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Large print. 595 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ¾.
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Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968
by Schoener, Allon (editor)
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As new except for tiny spot on side exterior page edges and light surface scratching on the back cover. 255 pages. 8.5" X 11" X .5" (22cm X 28cm X 1.3cm) History of Harlem as cultural center. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photos of people and cultural ephemera like playbills, tickets to the Cotton Club, and advertising banners about the importance of Black Santa. Part of a project with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Nonfiction. History. Photography. African American History. Regional History- New York.
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Black Ladies
by Uwe Ommer
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Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.Jacket like new, slight shelf wear.
Proceeds benefit Friends of the Library.
"Honest and reliable service - every book hand-packaged with care."
A photographic portrait of African women.
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Robeson, Labor's Forgotten Champion
by Charles H. Wright
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United States: Balamp Pub Co, 1975. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Book has one page with a small wrinkle, else clean and tight, jacket has some paper-loss on the backcover, else clean. Jacket is not price-clipped.
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Dick Gregory's Bible Tales, with Commentary
by Richard "Dick" Claxton Gregory (1932-2017)
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187 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards and faux signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. Edited by James R McGraw. First edition. Richard "Dick" Gregory was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, motivational speaker, author and actor. He became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences. Condition: Lightly soiled. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped else better than very good in like jacket.
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The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X
by T'Shaka, Oba
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T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.
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