Search Results: African American from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Pasadena: Privately Printed at the Ward Ritchie Press, 1939. First edition, limited, one of 150 copies, this inscribed, signed, & dated by the author at the first blank page. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), xiv, 350, & [2] pages, indexed. With a frontis portrait, 3 double-page maps and 21 other plates (2 in color). Original blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt. Spine & margins sunned, hint of fraying at the top of the spine, front hinge started (still secure), lightly foxed & toned (mostly at early & lated leaves), small stain affecting rear pastedown & blanks, otherwise Very Good. An insightful biography written by the son of DeWitt Clinton Poole. Poole served in the Civil War with the Wisconsin Volunteers & afterward with the Freedman's Bureau in Atlanta, Georgia. Additionally, he was an Indian agent at the Whetsone Agency in the Dakota Territory.

Chicago, Illinois: Playboy Press, Four volumes, Numbers 3, 4, 6, & 8, 1969, 1970, 1972, & 1975.First editions. Quartos (11" x 8"), variously paginated, profusely illustrated. Publisher's original pictorial light card covers.
Modest edge wear, light soiling, Marilyn Monroe centerfold with crease & short tear, otherwise Verry Good or better.
Includes interviews with Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro, Ralph Nader, Sam Peckinpah, & others, contributions by James Baldwin, Vladimir Nabokov, Ray Bradbury, etc., pin up art by Alberto Vargas, Kurtzman & Elder's magnificent Little Annie Fanny comic strip, plus, of course, fine art female nude photography featuring Marilyn Monroe, Ursula Andress, the "Girls of Munich," & more!

New York: Socialist Workers Party. New York State Campaign, 1970. Illustrated broadsheet flyer, single sheet measuring 11 inches by 8.5 inches printed recto & verso.
Short diagonal creasing at two corners, otherwise Fine.
In addition to a poignant message provided in part below, this flyer supplies the platform of the Socialist Workers Party and solicits donations.
"Increasing numbers of Black and Puerto Rican people in this city are opening their eyes to the cruel and unjust system that oppresses us. It is this system which sends our sons to die in Indochina for "freedom" and "democracy" - in the name of the very rights denied us here at home. We fight against our Vietnamese brothers and sisters when the main enemy is right here at home.That enemy is capitalism - the system of Nixon, Rockefeller, Wallace and Lindsay. It is the system whose two parties, the Democratic and Republican parties, come asking us for votes every year while Democratic and Republican officeholders send out brothers to die,… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, (1994). First edition, this copy boldly signed in ink on the title page by Barbara Neely. Octavo ((8.5" x 5.75"), 232 pages. Publisher's black paper over boards lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket (art work by John Howard).
Light foxing at the top edge of the text block & very briefly on the front free endpaper, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket.
The second title featuring "black domestic worker extraordinaire" Blanche White. In this book, "Blanche gets an insider's view of the color and class divisions within the black community."
Barbara Ann Neely (1941 – 2020) was named Grand Master in 2020 by The Mystery Writers of America.

New York: Ballantine, "A One World Book," (2000). First edition, this copy boldy signed in ink at the title page by Kristen Lattany (nee Kristin Hunter). Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), 265 pages. Publisher's orange paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered brick paper, in pictorial dust jacket.
Top edge of the text block lightly foxed, otherwise fine in fine dust jacket.
"The ever-widening gap between Africans and African-Americans - and the strong but precarious link that bridges it ... The unexpected peril of romanticizing our roots - and the foreigners who represent them...The importance of taking care of others - without sacrificing oneself...Kristin Lattany takes political correctness and Afrocentricity and turns them upside down." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1930. First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"), 473 & [1] pages, illustrated, the frontispiece by Keith Mackaye & linoleum cuts by Ina Annett. Publisher's gilt-lettered light brown cloth, with a pictorial device depicting a team of horses & a man plowing a field.
Margins sunned, base of the spine with shallow loss, corners bumped, internal toning mostly affecting endpapers & pastedowns, previous owner's name & place in ink at the ffep, small booksellers' label at front pastedown, otherwise good or better.
This copy from the library of Allen Walker Read, an American etymologist and lexicographer, best known for his studies into the words "okay" and "fuck."
Contents include Wide River by Langston Hughes, Apocrypha of Billy the Kid by Maurice G. Fulton, & The Witch by Paul Horgan.

Frederick-Town, (Maryland): Printed by John P. Thomson, Vol. II, No. 77, Saturday, December 3d, 1803. First edition. Original newspaper, single sheet measuring 18 inches by 23 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. Text in four columns, printed on laid paper. Brigham/ Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820 (1962 edition), vol. I, pp. 261 & 262.
Moderately tattered & creased, last two letters in "Herald" at masthead rubbed, toned, foxed, lightly stained, signature in old ink at the top margin of "Rev. Jos. Glass," brief ink annotations in the margins, otherwise very good.
Previous owner Rev. Joseph Glass was one of five ministers who organized the Presbytery of Winchester, Virginia. He is cited in Graham's Planting of the Presbyterian Church in Northern Virginia.
This issue features lengthy reporting on current considerations in the House of Representatives involving the Louisiana Purchase. Also includes period advertising for, among other things, a run away slave:
"SIXTEEN DOLLARS… Read More

Frederick-Town, (Maryland): Printed by John P. Thomson, Vol. II, No. 73, Saturday, November 5th, 1803. First edition. Original newspaper, single sheet measuring 18 inches by 23 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. Text in four columns, printed on laid paper. Brigham/ Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820 (1962 edition), vol. I, pp. 261 & 262.
Moderately tattered & creased, toned, foxed, lightly stained, signature in old ink at the top margin of "Rev. Joseph Glass," otherwise very good.
Previous owner Rev. Joseph Glass was one of five ministers who organized the Presbytery of Winchester, Virginia. He is cited in Graham's Planting of the Presbyterian Church in Northern Virginia.
This issue features lengthy reporting on current considerations in the House of Representatives involving the Louisiana Purchase. Also includes period advertising for, among other things, a run away slave:
"SIXTEEN DOLLARS REWARD. RAN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Montgomery County, near the Sugar-loaf… Read More

[New York]: "Sold in theatres showing "Gone With the Wind" and may be purchased from Ellison B. Greenstone," no date (circa 1939). First edition. Original movie program in pictorial, stapled light card covers measuring approximately 12 inches by 9 inches with 18 pages plus covers, illustrated throughout in color & black & white.
Small scuff briefly affecting the portrait of Ann Rutherford on the rear cover, slightly soiled & toned, trace edge wear, otherwise Near Fine.
A unusually nice copy of the "Southern" edition of this movie program which omits a portrait of African American Hattie McDaniel on the back cover. Her image, which appears on the "Northern" edition, was left off this version at the suggestion of consultant Legare Davis, the Advertising Manager for Atlanta Gas Light. Ms. McDaniel and other African American cast members did not attend the premier due to the State of Georgia's Jim Crow laws which prohibited them from sitting with their white colleagues. Thereafter, McDaniel was awarded an… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1988). First edition, this copy boldly signed in ink on the title page by Edwards-Yearwood. Octavo (9.25 x 6.25"), 279 pages. Publisher's gray paper over boards backed in light green cloth lettered in black on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Top edge of the text block a bit foxed, internal toning, otherwise very good or better in fine dust jacket.
Grace Edwards-Yearwood, 1933 - 2020, (nee Grace Frederica Smith) was director of the Harlem Writers Guild from 2007 to 2016. In the Shadow of the Peacock is her first book followed by six detective novels all set in Harlem.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, (1978). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink at the title page by Kristen Hunter Lattany. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), [6] & 314 pages. Publisher's red cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Edges of the text block lightly foxed, otherwise fine in slightly toned dust jacket, still about fine.
Kristin Hunter (1931 - 2008), an African American author, comments on her writing:
"The bulk of my work has dealt, imaginatively, I hope, with relations between the white and black races in America. My early work was "objective," that is, sympathetic to both whites and blacks, and seeing members of both groups from a perspective of irony and humor against the wider backdrop of human experience as a whole. Since about 1968 my subjective anger has been emerging, along with my grasp of the real situation in this society, though my sense of humor and my basic optimism keep cropping up like uncontrollable weeds."

New York: Vantage Press, (1971.) First edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"), 58 pages Publisher's green cloth patterned paper over boards lettered in silver on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket Edges lightly rubbed, previous owner's name & date at first blank page, otherwise Very Good in moderately rubbed & soiled dust jacket with edge wear including small losses & short tears. "At a time when racial integration is such a burning issue, this novelette has something pertinent to say on the subject. Ruth O Williams' story is set initially on a plantation in the last days of the old South. After the death of his overseer, a judge "adopts" the widow and her daughter and eventually leaves them his fortune The daughter, Janet, grows up with the secret knowledge that, though white, she carries black blood in her veins." 
~Excerpted from the dust jacket

New York: Oliver Dodd, Publisher, (1890). First edition. 12mo, 200 pp. Publisher's paper over boards backed in brick cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Wright III: 2636. Brief wear at spine extremities, corners bumped & rubbed, small gouge along the lower edge of the rear cover, light foxing mostly at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise Very Good. Set in Memphis, Tennessee, Nicholas Blood chronicles the race for mayor between a black candidate & his white rival. A contemporary review provides clarity of a sort: "The negro question in our South is producing a literature of its own. This bit of realistic fiction deserves no mean number in the list of books devoted to that momentous problem. It is written from the point of view of the white race, as a terrible warning against the dangers of negro domination." Arthur Henry , a journalist & playwright, was an associate & friend of Theodore Dreiser. He served as mentor & assisted in the editing of Dreiser's first novel, Sister Carrie.

[Baton Rouge]: Louisiana State University Press, 1949 First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink at the ffep to Edward M Crane who was the long-time president of the D Van Nostrand Company Octavo (8.75" x 5.75"), xxi & 235 pages including maps & tables Publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth-patterned paper over boards, in pictorial dust jacket
Covers lightly soiled, bookplate of Edward M Crane at the front pastedown, otherwise very good in worn, good only dust jacket, soiled, with tears & small losses briefly affecting text
A title in the Louisiana State University's Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in Southern history
Chapters include: Southern Society: A Reinterpretation; To the Promised Land: The Migration and Settlement of the Plain Folk; Southern Folkways; The Role of the Plain Folk; with Appendix providing a statistical analysis of land and slave holdings in sample counties

Baltimore, Maryland: "Published every Monday, Wednesday & Friday by Charles Prentiss," Vol. II, No. 107, Friday, March 18, 1803. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 21.75 inches by 27 inches folded once horizontally forming 4 pages.
Old folds, tattered & creased, losses in the margins not affecting text, separated about half way at the vertical fold, toned & lightly foxed, a good or so copy & still quite useful.
A rare example of a short-lived Federalist newspaper published & presumably edited by Charles Prentiss who is described in the Encyclopedia Virginia as "a fiery Boston writer." In addition to political content reflective of the then defeated Federalist Party who lost to the Democratic-Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson, this issue includes poignant if now repulsive advertising:
"Twenty Dollars Reward.""RAN-AWAY from the subscriber, some time in November last, a NEGRO MAN, named Sam, he is about 24 years old, 5 feet 6 inches high, well made, has some impediment in his… Read More

Birmingham, Alabama: Crane Hill Publishers, (1994). First Edition, this copy signed in ink at the half-title page by Kathy Kemp & Keith Boyer. Quarto (10.25" x 10.75"), 224 pages, profusely illustrated mostly from color photographs. Publisher's gilt-lettered black linen in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in near fine slightly soiled dust jacket with trace edge wear.
Provides "profiles of 31 artists and over 125 color reproductions of their work, ... takes you on a personal tour of Alabama's finest - literally revealing, for the first time together anywhere, the unique lives, works, and personal visions of these refreshingly original artists …" ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

New York: New York State Socialist Campaign Committee, 1970. 4to (11" x 8.5"), mimeographed broadside, single sheet printed on pale yellow paper recto only.
Lightly browned along the right & left margins, slight edge wear, otherwise Very Good. Describes conditions in New York City public high schools as perceived by the Socialist Workers Party, particularly with regard to bias & racism directed at African American & Puerto Rican students. Additionally presents the party's demands which include "all cops get out of the schools, that the demonstration school districts be restored under community control, and that Black and Puerto Rican people control Black and Puerto Rican education" Quite uncommon, not found in OCLC

[Charlottesville, Virginia]: John F. Slater Fund, 1933. [Charlottesville, Virginia]: Trustees of the John F Slater Fund, 1933 Second printing 8vo, 66 pp, frontis portrait Original printed paper wraps Slater Fund Occasional Papers No 27 Wraps moderately browned, trace edge wear, otherwise very good Collects "Twenty odd papers garnered from magazines, school journals and other periodicals" by Dillard, the son of slave owners, who was president of the Negro Rural School Fund (Anna T Jeanes Foundation) & Director of the John F Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen Additionally, Dillard University is named in his honor

[Dillon, South Carolina: published by the compilers], (1957). First edition. Octavo (8.5" x 5.5"), vii & 89 pages. Original pictorial, stapled, stiff paper wraps. Laid in is a statement from the compilers addressed generically to a "leader in South Carolina" indicating that this complimentary copy "will contribute to your understanding of the vital and timely problem of race relations in our state."
Covers browned at the margins, llightly foxed & soiled, otherwise very good.
Extremely controversial in its day & condemned by Governor George Bell Timmerman, South Carolinians Speak gathers statements from 11 contributors including Claudia Thomas Sanders whose house was fire-bombed by the Ku Klux Klan following publication.
"The present controversy in the field of race relations is no exception. Recent days in South Carolina as well as in the entire Southern region of the United States, have seen the development of a climate of opinion and emotion in which extreme positions have dominated. Not only… Read More

Atlanta, Georgia: Student Voice, Inc./ Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. First edition. Uncirculated newsletter, volume 5, number 8, March 3, 1964. 4to (11" x 8.5"), single sheet folded once vertically forming 4 pages, illustrations throughout mostly from photographs.Unobtrusive horizontal crease (seemingly a production flaw), otherwise near fine."A final SNCC legacy is the destruction of the psychological shackles which had kept black southerners in physical and mental peonage; SNCC helped break those chains forever. It demonstrated that ordinary women and men, young and old, could perform extraordinary tasks." ~Julian Bond, October, 2000.