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Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Very clean black cloth boards with burgundy title box, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 421 pgs. with index. Clean unfaded dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, unclipped. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A comprehensive interpretive history of the African-American novel (more than 150 novels are discussed). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black History..

University of California Press, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Paperback. Stated First Paperback Edition.. University of California Press, 1973. Stated First Paperback Edition. Near Fine. Very clean and tight first paperback edition (so stated). Trade paperback - size approx. 5-1/2" x 8". No soiling, creasing or chipping; very slight wear to one corner tip. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or marks. Translated by Jean Decock. Illustrated with photographs throughout. 290 pages with index..

Free Press, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Free Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. Very clean unfaded maroon cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 272 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has a few small edge nicks and very short closed edge tears, slight vertical surface wrinkle due to manufacturing on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Authentic and appalling study of government syphilis medical research on 400 African American men from 1932 to 1972. 8vo. Black History..

Boston: Little Brown, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Boston: Little Brown, 1947. Stated First Edition. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Clean green cloth boards have light dust-soling, hint of sunning to spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Tasteful previous owner bookplate on front fixed endpaper. 324 pgs. 8vo. Black History..

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First Edition . Near Fine. Clean decorated binding, green cloth boards with black decoration and lettering, front and rear flaps of dust jacket laid in. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrations and decorations by Edward Larocque Tinker. 210 pages. Negro folk song, music and stories gathered from author's life in Louisiana..

New York : Atheneum, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Very clean hardcover book and dust jacket. Later printing. clean black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, all pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. Well-illustrated in black and white. 198 pages with index. Clean bright jacket is unchipped, has one short closed edge tear at top rear spine fold; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Through careful research and rare antique prints and photographs, this book reveals how black and red people learned to live and work together in the Americas. An American story that reveals a little-known aspect of our past..

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1948. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing.. Second printing of the first edition in unclipped original dust jacket. Very clean orange-brown cloth boards with crisp black lettering on cover and spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. No previous owner names, writing or bookplates. 305 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, a few short closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Being the Story of Ralph Rudd his early Adventures, Perils and Misfortunes on Land and Sea, including sundry close Encounters with High-jacking, Mutiny and Violence off the African Slave Coast together with an Account of the Treachery of Others, and of his subsequent Confinement in the Gallow's Cell of old Newgate in the fourteenth summer of his Life in the Year of our Lord Eighteen-Hundred and Twenty-Nine..

Picador, 2015. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Very clean hardcover first edition, first printing in clean unclipped dust jacket (now enclosed in archival quality removable mylar cover). Clean black paper-covered boards with white lettering on spine. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. 294 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. One Black doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of Black Americans. .

New York: The Feminist Press At CUNY, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: The Feminist Press At CUNY, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Fine first edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean beige cloth boards with burgundy lettering on cover and spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean lavender endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Frontispiece photo of Mary White Ovington in her youth; additional black and white photos at rear of book. Edited and with a Foreword by Ralph E. Luker. Afterword by Carolyn E. Wedin. 168 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. "An important contribution to the literature of the African-American freedom struggle." - Coretta Scott King..

New York: Samuel Curl, Inc., 1946. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: Samuel Curl, Inc., 1946. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean gray cloth boards with blue-black lettering on cover and spine. Slight surface wear to top and bottom spine edge. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean; clean endpapers -- no names, writing or marks. 267 pgs. Color illustrated dustjacket is not price clipped, has slight edge wear and short closed edge tears, slightest hint of light soiling. Author's photo on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. First book appearance of "Boysi" the African American cook and self-elected manager of the Oates family; Glenn Allan's widely loved stories about Boysi first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. 8vo. Fiction..

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1934. Book. Illus. by Rockwell Kent, Illustrator. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Clean first edition, first printing in original unclipped dust jacket. Red and white polka-dot cloth boards with red title box, black lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear-through. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages are clean with clean Rockwell Kent illustrated endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Frontispiece illustration by Kent with numerous Kent illustrations throughout. 310 pages. Dust jacket is clean, not price clipped; has chipping at top spine edge (up to 3/4"), numerous closed edge tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A vivid and moving story of negro life on a plantation along the Savannah River in South Carolina. .

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. Book. Illus. by Illustrated with Photographs. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition (Signed).. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999. First Edition (Signed). Near Fine/Near Fine. Illustrated with Photographs. Very clean bright red cloth boards with metallic deep blue lettering on spine. Very slight bow to front board. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages, edges and endpapers are very clean, crisp and bright; no previous owner names or bookplates. Title page SIGNED BY AUTHOR (Paul Bauer). 230 pgs. with index. Clean, bright dustjacket has some very light edge wear, no chips, tears or creases. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8 Vo. Sports..

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Near Fine . Very clean hardcover book in clean dust jacket. Charcoal gray cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; small marginal notes on two pages. 191 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

Barricade Books, Inc., 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition.. Very clean hardcover book and dust jacket. Black boards with black cloth spine, crisp silver lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 280 pages with index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The stunning, sexy, and fiercly independent Ms. Kitt relates the story of her extraordinary life, in forceful, articulate prose. Great copy, collectible in quality..

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. First Edition, First Printing, in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean gray paper-covered boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No fading or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages and edges are clean and bright with clean decorated endpapers. Black & white illustrations. Foreword by Barack Obama. No names, writing or marks. 454 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. "in real life we deal, not with gods, but with ordinary humans like ourselves: men and women who are full of contraditions, who are stable and fickle, strong and weak, famous and infamous." - Nelson Mandela.

Wilberforce, Ohio: Frederick A. McGinnis, 1962. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Wilberforce, Ohio: Frederick A. McGinnis, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. Clean first edition in clean original unchipped dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 104 pages with index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. From the Preface: "This book is the outgrowth of a number of years' study of the education of Negroes in Ohio. In fact, both of my grandfathers were freedmen, (sons of their slave-holding fathers) who had been manumitted and settled in Ohio.this book was written chiefly to enlighten the public as to what transpired through the years as the Negroes of Ohio were striving for status and opportunity… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1955. Stated First Edition. Very Good/Very Good+. "First Edition" stated on copyright page, in clean original unclipped jacket. Clean red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Very slight surface wear at top and bottom spine edges, no fraying, no bumping. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, but tanned. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 295 pp. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped (3.95 on front inside flap), unchipped, with a few short closed edge tears. Author's photo on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Author's first novel, set in South Africa during the time when South Africans were determined to win the right of self-rule..

Oxfor University Press, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean hardcover first edition, first printing in clean unchipped jacket (now in new archival quality removable mylar cover). Blue paper-covered boards with black spine, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. All pages and edges are clean - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with glossy black & white photographs. 241 pages with Index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears. .

New York: St. Martins Press, 1990. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: St. Martins Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. Stated First U.S. Edition (first printing, with full number line) in unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with gold lettering on spine. Slight wear to one corner tip, tiny bump to one corner. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 237 pages. Clean illustrated dust jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, has two short closed edge tears along flap fold edges. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. An adventure novel based on the true story of two black aviators (James Herman Banning and Thomas C. Allen) who set out to be the first black Americans to fly coast to coast across America..

New York : Scholastic Press, 1997. Book. Illus. by Christopher Myers, Illustrator. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated first printing with complete number line, in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Very clean hardcover book with no fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, all pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with boldly assembled collage art by Christopher Myers. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, no fading no wear, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A beautiful copy of this poem by Walter Dean Myers. Caldecott Honor book, with silver Caldecott Honor seal on front panel of dust jacket..