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Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co, n.y.. Hardcover. Edited and with introduction by Malcolm Cowley. Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. xxi, 376pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Tight, attractive reprint edition of the 1928 Albert & Boni edition of this classic slave-trading narrative, first published in 1854 -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front pastedown is a near fine Typed Note Signed from editor and introducer Cowley, 1p, 7½" X 10", New York, NY, 10 September 1940. Addressed to noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). Near fine. Two original folds. On letterhead of "The New Republic" listing him as one of its editors, Cowley thanks this admirer for birthday wishes. Large and bold full signature. Cowley (1898-1989) was a noted editor, writer, critic, historian and chronicler of the "Lost Generation" of which he was one of the last survivors.
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Adventures of an African Slaver: Being a True Account of the Life of Captain Theodore Canot, Trader in Gold, Ivory & Slaves on the Coast of Guinea: His Story as told in the Year 1854 to Brantz Mayer
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African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with blue spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 309pp. Illustrations, tables. Near fine/fine. Handsomely tight and nice second printing.
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African Challenge: The Story of the British in Tropical Africa
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New York: British Information Services, 1945. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff green pictorial wrappers. 64pp. Map, numerous drawings. Very good. First edition. Historical overview of Britain's colonizing efforts. Rather biased, naturally.
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Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery
by JOHNSON, Charles, and SMITH, Patricia
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth spine and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 494pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A handsome and tight first edition of this accompaniment to the PBS series.
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All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
by MAYER, Henry
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New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xxi, 707pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. First softbound edition, tight and superb, of this thick 1998 study, a National Book Award finalist.
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An American Traveler's Guide to Black History
by DROTNING, Phillip T.
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue and black cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 247pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; small abrasion at upper right of front flyleaf. Early (not first) printing, tight and attractive.
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America's Most Famous Book: A Dissertation on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle's Tom Cabin and Uncle Tom Shows
by FOSTER, Thomas Henry
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Cedar Rapids, IA: The Torch Press, 1947. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with paper label and tan/brown patterned paper over boards. 37pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Handsome, tight first edition of this Christmas keepsake, an essay by the noted Iowa meatpacking company president (1875-1951), remembered for his bookplate collection and as a Victorian book collector and, strangely enough, as a Shakespeare denier.
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America's Ethnic Politics
by ROUCEK, Joseph S., and EISENBERG, Bernard (editors)
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Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with silver lettering. x, 403pp. Near fine. Tight, handsome first edition of this volume in the "Contributions in Ethnic Studies" series, featuring essays by noted scholars covering not just African-Americans, but also Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Italians, Puerto Ricans, Scandinavians, Germans, etc.
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Amistad
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N.p.: DreamWorks, 1997. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial glazed paper over boards. 316pp. Color illustrations. Fine. First edition of this novel based on the Franzoni and Zaillian screenplay.
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Anger, and Beyond: The Negro Writer in the United States
by HILL, Herbert (editor)
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New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, dust jacket. xxii, 227pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight, quite attractive first edition of these essays by Arna Bontemps, LeRoi Jones, Harvey Swados, Ossie Davis and other notables. From library of academic/literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir (1923-2013), with his ownership signature on front flyleaf.
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The Anti-Slavery Movement in Kentucky Prior to 1850
by MARTIN, Asa Earl
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New York: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth. 165pp. Tables. Fine. Tight and handsome facsimile reprint of "Filson Club Publication Number Twenty-Nine," first published in 1918.
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An Appeal to Pharaoh: The Negro Problem, and Its Radical Solution
by McKINLEY, Carlyle
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Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. Edited by Gustavus M. Pinckney. 8vo. Orange cloth with black spine lettering. xix, 185pp. Near fine. Tight, nice facsimile reprint of the 1907 third edition of this Reconstruction study, first published in 1889.
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An Appraisal of the Negro in Colonial South Carolina: A Study in Americanization
by KLINGBERG, Frank J.
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Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, 1941. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. xii, 180pp. Very good. A tight and decent first edition of this influential study. Mild, inoffensive ex-library, with very few and discreet markings.
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Archibald Grimke: Portrait of a Black Independent
by BRUCE, Dickson D., Jr.
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Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 269pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this volume in editor William J. Cooper Jr.'s "Southern Biography Series."
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Army Life in a Black Regiment
by HIGGINSON, Thomas Wentworth
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New York: Collier Books, 1962. Paperback. Introduction by Howard N. Meyer. 287pp, (1p ad). Very good. Tight, clean, nice first of this paperback edition, a volume in editor Earl Schenck Miers' "Civil War Classics" series.
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Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
by JONES, James H.
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New York: The Free Press, 1993. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed wrappers. xv, 295pp. Illustrations. Very good. Sixth paperback edition, tight and nice, of the expanded edition of the 1981 classic. "The modern classic of race and medicine," notes the front wrapper, "updated with an additional chapter on the Tuskegee Experiment's legacy in the age of AIDS."
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Black Children, White Dreams
by COTTLE, Thomas J.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Hardcover. Foreword by Senator Walter F. Mondale. 8vo. Black cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 187pp. Near fine/very good. Mildest bit of jacket edgewear. First edition -- tight, clean and attractive. "...Cottle records the daily lives of several black children and their families living in a northern city."
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Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia
by JORDAN, Ervin L., Jr.
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Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xv, 447pp. Illustrations, tables. Fine. Perfectly tight and pristine first edition.
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Black Humor Fiction of the Sixties
by SCHULZ, Max F.
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Athens: Ohio University Press, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 156pp. Fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A superbly tight and nice first edition of this scholarly approach. Review slip laid in.
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Black Jacob
by MAHONEY, William
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 247pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit age toned, more so on spine. A tight, handsome first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "first major novel to come out of the Movement."
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