Search Results: Stereotype from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1966. 121p. exhibition catalog, profusely illus. with black/white reproductions of the African American artist's work, along with works by the other two "naive" European American artists, 8x11 inches, plain printed wraps, spine panel somewhat sunned with a nick at the tail.

Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1904. Paperback. 210p., nine full-page woodblock illustrations (ten, counting cover), softbound first edition in 7.5x5 inch decorated wraps printed black and red on smooth yellow stock. Front cover is nearly detached with an ineffective bit of old tape at the heel, very acidic textblock with a bad bump and crumpling to tips of many leaves. All cover texts, and all images and content within are intact, but item is hard to handle, and was bound rather stiffly to begin with. As is.

New York: Center for Asian, African and Caribbean Studies :: Global Organization of People of Indian Origin, GOPIO, nd. Hardcover. v, 366p., red boards in dust jacket; dust jacket is slightly shelfworn, else very good.

New York: George Sully & Company, 1929. Hardcover. 146p., ten illus., previous owner's gift inscription, no dj. first edition. Dialect stories about a black mammy from Virginia.

New York: Irvington Pub, 1985. Paperback. [v] 81p. + index, 8.5x11 inches, forms, handouts, tables, questionnaires, mild general toning and a small snag at the head, a good to very good oversize trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

Oakland: PM Press, 2013. Paperback. 118p., 8.5x11 inch wraps, as New. Basic skills like golfing, making money. Tongue-in-cheek pseudo-ethnography and parody of "sensitive" educational books for kids about ethnic minorities.

Berkeley, CA: Oyate, 1990. [28p.], wraps, spiralbound, wraps somewhat browned, pencil notation on front wrap else very good condition. Basic skills like golfing, making money. Tongue-in-cheek pseudo-ethnography and parody of "sensitive" educational books for kids about ethnic minorities.

Paris: Stock, 2005. Paperback. 209p., softbound first edition in 8.5x5.5 inch glossy green & white wraps and enclosed in a similar dust jacket featuring a colorphoto portrait of Iacub with green parrot. Signed and briefly inscribed by her on the first blank. A stylish production in perfect shape: both book and dj are as-new, pace the author signature.

Los Angeles: Middle Passage Press, 1996. 208p., boards in glossy dj, very good copy. See pp.95/6 for analysis of the doctoring of O. J.'s picture for the cover of Time magazine. "Time, after many protests from blacks, admitted that it doctored O.J.'s cover photo to make him look more sinister; managing editor James Gains at first blamed the distorted photo on a freelance artist." Gains later defended the alteration by "insist[ing] that it was an editorial decision that newspapers and magazines make all the time. They routinely crop, touch-up, and retouch." FYI, such photoshopping must be acknowledged in print.

New York: Howley, Haviland & Dresser, 1902. 8p. sheet music with Dewey illustration of a black man and his weeping woman on the front wrap, 10.75x13.5 inches, lightly worn red & black on white wraps with notation, "This is the march and two-step arrangement of the greatest coon song of the day, introducing Sabina, arranged by Ben M. Jerome.'. An oft-covered song, with versions recorded by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong to Patsy Cline and Michael Bublé. Several versions of this sheet music appear, with different text or images in the rectangular box at lower left.

New York: HarperCollins, 1994. Hardcover. xv, 224p., first edition, bit soiled/rubbed dj. African American culture critic.

Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co, 1882. Hardcover. 300p., first edition, illustrated with 11 fullpage wood engravings of urban and country African American life; these stylized and quite capable, if stereotyped. Minor edgewear. no DJ. Dialect novel set in Detroit's black community, by a European American author. For a change of pace, the table of contents page is arranged in Alphabetical order (!?!).

Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1920. Sheet_music. 5p. (of which 3 imprinted with music notation and lyrics (provided with chorus), sheet music in 12x9 inch color pictorial wraps, several inked tics, rear wrap detached but held on by two pieces of ancient yellowed tape. Cover illustration a placid scene, exclusively African American, with children and banjo. As is, serviceable condition.

New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1994. Paperback. xvi, 238p., trade paperback first printing. Paperstock somewhat toned.

Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1989. Hardcover. xvi, 270p. hardcover, some pen underlining, a decent reading copy.

no place: Anaya Editores S.A., 1980. Paperback. 233p. plus 6p. "Nota final", glossy red paperbound in 8x5 inch decorated wraps (a workingclass guy at a urinal), illustrated with vignette t&a sketches (young busty females). Text paperstock slightly toned, but an unhandled copy just out of its shrinkwrap. We are assuming Mexican publication data, as per the collection this item came from, most likely Mexico DF, but we cannot be sure.

San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1955. Staplebound. 32p., staplebound wraps, 4.25x5.5 inches, illus. with b&w drawings, light soiling to wraps, else very good condition. An introduction to Chinatown history, somewhat sympathetic despite the credulous rehashing of old tales about slave auctions, streets running with blood during the Tong Wars, etc.

New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008. Paperback. 211p., plus an Acknowledgments section ("Helvetica!" they love this font!), b&w vignette illustrations (i.e., distractions) throughout the (bright white!) alkaline-based textblock, softbound in 9x6 inch decorated wraps. Nice clean copy, they don't carry pencils anymore, bother with dog ears, or even open the book they just bought to be friendly. Starts off with Coffee, a WASP special, and ends with the font of choice. Compiled by a center-right of whatever ethnic persuasion; what else would venture that whitey endorsed Obama so as not to sound racist. Another false note, p.169: "Generally speaking, the type of conspiracy most beloved by white people involves the American government working with some sort of multinational corporation to extract money or resources from a poor nation" --as a put-down.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1929. Hardcover. 410p., illustrated with b&w production stills (Fox Movietone) on glazed inserted stock, the Grosset edition of the original Payson & Clarke publication neglected to change copyright information (therefore G&D may be advertised as the "first", which it is not). Hardbound in textured red cloth lettered black, cloth is smudged with a partial light cup-ring, top edge dust-soiled, a sound copy clean and unmarked within. FYI, the selling point of Mr Ripley's novel is hardly the storyline (hangovers, racism) but the four plates. One is simulated shot of horseback revolutionaries, and the other three of Victor McLaglen being a towering ladies' man (whatta grin!) and a singleton of a young Humphrey Bogart being obsequious.

Madrid: Ediciones Españolas, 1939. 242p., Chapter heading vignette linedrawn cartoons lampooning left stereotypes, some foxing, first edition, wraps rebound in library buckram, ex library.