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By: Bonner, T. D. (from Beckwourth's narration)
Price: $575.00
Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers: 1856
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16400
Frontispiece and 12 wood-engraved plates included in the pagination. Original blindstamped cloth with faded spine lettered in gilt. Some edge, corner and surface wear with very minor damage at spine ends. Former owner's name on front pastedown along with very brief notes in pencil on rear pastedown. Book is square and binding secure with no tears or parting except for very short start at bottom of front hinge. Overall, a solid very good copy. Jim Beckwourth (c.1800-186... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Washington DC, The Associates in Negro Folk Education: 1937
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 15411
Light orange cloth over boards with red and black decoration. No titling on spine. No dustjacket, as issued (?). This copy has light general wear and aging along with a small, light smudge on the front, about two-thirds of the way down near the spine and an area of darker smudges on the rear near the top of the spine. Square and securely bound. This book is rather uncommon in hardback. This was one of a series of books issued by The Associates in Negro Folk Education in ... View more info
By: Burnham, Louis
Price: $200.00
Publisher: New York, Freedom Associates: 1955
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16405
Stapled, black and white wraps with drawing of Emmet Till. This pamphlet appears to be unused and would be fine except for light aging and one minor bit of light creasing on the back wrap.This is a fiery pamphlet regarding human rights abuses against African-Americans in the South. The pamphlet is not just about Emmet Till, whose murder helped galvanize the Civil Rights movement, but about violence against blacks throughout the South. The author was a civil rights activi... View more info
By: Casement, Rose
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Lanham, The Scarecrow Press: 2008
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16297
Book is as new and unread. This is an exceptional survey of children's literature that presents accurate pictures of the African-American histroy. For some reason, all copies of this book that I have seen on line list the copyright date as 2007. The book itself and WorldCat list 2008 as the correct date. This is the first edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 315 pages View more info
By: Center Theatre, Weldon, North Carolina
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Weldon, Benton Card Company: ca. 1956
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15487
Printed on a newsprint-type paper, that has some age toning along edges and one small tear along the bottom edge, this proadside is in remarkably nice condition. About near fine. It advertises the movie "Rockin' the Blues" The Wanderers, Hal Jackson, Pearl Wood, Linda Hopkins, The Hurricanes and a number of others. The text adds, "It's crazy, man, crazy! Also showing was "Curly" starring Frances Rafferty. "Rockin the Blues came out in 1956, so I a... View more info
![Image for The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: with a Memoir of Her Life and Character, by Benjamin Lundy. [bound with] Essays, Philanthropic and Moral, by Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: Principally Relating to the Abolition of Slavery in America](/assets/images/product/16404_1 "The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: with a Memoir of Her Life and Character, by Benjamin Lundy. [bound with] Essays, Philanthropic and Moral, by Elizabeth Margaret Chandler: Principally Relating to the Abolition of Slavery in America")
By: Chandler, Elizabeth Margaret (Benjamin Lundy, ed.)
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lemuel Howell: 1836
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16404
Full leather, patterned, with faded gilt titles on red panel on spine.Edge, corner and surface wear with light area of damage at top of spine and rubbed corners. One signature is slightly pulled, but book is square and binding secure. Some interior toning and foxing. Tissue guard on frontispiece present. Solid copy. This is two volumes in one, as, it appears, most copies were. The poems comprise the the first 180 pages followed by 120 pages of essays. Chandler was a Quak... View more info
By: Charters, Ann
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Albert & Charles Boni: 1970
Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing
Seller ID: 16139
Book has very light wear and light aging. Jacket has some edge wear including one very short, closed tear near the top front corner along with some soiling/aging. Book is square and securely bound. This is Ann Charters' biography of Bert Williams, probably the first African-American superstar. Williams was a singer and actor of great renown in the early 20th century. W. C. Fields said of Williams that he was the funniest man he ever knew and the saddest. ; B&W Illustrat... View more info
By: Cheadle, Dave and Russ Macieri (eds.)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Marlton, The Trade Card Collectors Association: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16285
Stapled white wraps with black titles and image from Victorian era trade card. About fine with only very light wear. This issue has an informative article on racial stereotyping in Victorian trade cards. There are also articles on Soapine Soap Cards, Insurance Trade Cards, French's Automatic Toy card, Trade Card Lithographers along with other reviews and announcements. ; B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 30 pages View more info
By: Chervenka, Mark
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Des Moines, Antique & Collectors Reproduction News: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16287
Stapled, white self-wraps with three punch holes so the issue can be placed in a binder. Some light wear and one dogeared corner. The main topics in this issue on fakes of African-American collectibles is on advertising pieces from the Coon Chicken Inn and other African-American kitchen-related item. Good information. ; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 12 pages View more info
Price: $400.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company: 1901
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16168
Cloth has some stains and soiling, including old, circular water marks on front and back covers along with light edge and corner wear; spine slightly sunned. Both exterior and interior show expected aging. The rear hinge has been reglued at some point. Crayon marks on p. 231. Overall, this copy in VG- condition. This is considered to be Chesnutt's finest novel. It deals with the Wilmington, North Carolina race riot 0f 1898.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 329 pages; Chesnut... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Athens GA, Signet from New American Library: 1970
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 15593
Orange wraps with black and white titles. Light, general wear with some small scuffs on the back wraps as well as two light diagonal creases on the back bottom corner. Spine is neither creased nor cracked and book feels unread. This is a collection of essays and selections about Harlem by well-known African-American authors, like James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Leroi Jones, and several more. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 215 pages View more info
By: Clarke, John Henrik, et. al. (eds.)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Freedomways Association, Inc.: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15602
Yellow wraps with B&W drawing of Bessie Smith along with black and white titles. General light wear on edges and corner but with some soiling.toning on wraps. Square and securely bound with an uncreased and uncracked spine. Civil Rights oriented magazine first published during the 1960's This issue features articles by John Conyers, Donald Bogle and others plus a short story by Alice Walker and political cartoons by Brumsic Brandon, Jr. ; Vol. 14, No. 4; B&W Cartoons; 8... View more info
By: Clarke, John Henrik, et. al. (eds.)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Freedomways Association, Inc.: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15603
Purple wraps with B&W illustration along with black and white titles. General light wear on edges, corners and surface. Square and securely bound with an uncreased and uncracked spine. Feels unread. Civil Rights oriented magazine first published during the 1960's This issue features articles by Jesse Jackson, Clarence Munford, W. D. Wright and others along with poetry by Willard Moore. ; Vol. 14, No. 1; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1-95 pages View more info
By: Clifford, J(ohn) R(obert) (ed.)
Price: $750.00
Publisher: Martinsburg, J. R. Clifford: 1885
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16364
This is a four-page newspaper on good quality newsprint with expected aging and surprisingly light edge and corner wear. There are vertical and horizontal folds from mailing or delivery and some small holes where these folds intersect. Please see photograph -- neither the folds nor the holes are obtrusive. A former owner's name is written in ink at the top of the first page. Overall this copy is VG to VG+. This is an important African-American periodical and copies are q... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Walter Neale: 1928
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 13142
Light blue cloth with tipped on B&W illustration and deep brown titles. Edge and corner wear with loss at top of spine. Streaks on picture on front. General aging and toning on page edges. Book is square and securely bound. ; B&W Illustrations; Musical Notation; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 143 pages; Partly written in dialect with a theme dealing with racial relationships, this book is mainly distinguished by 41 plates featuring musical notation and sample lyrics from song... View more info
By: Colored Division, Republican State Headquarters of Tennessee
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Nashville, Colored Division, Republican State Headquarters of Tennssee: (1940)
Seller ID: 16412
Single-fold (4 pp.) heavy-stock, newsprint pamphlet with general light wear and aging with some minor, flattened creading on corners. Overall VG. This pamphlet produced by the Colored Division of the Tennessee Republican Party goes into detail on segregationist policies of the New Deal Democrats in Tennessee, especially in regard to Civil Service positions, specifically the WPA, NYA and Census. It also mentions Democratics "Jim Crow Offices" and the cynical hirin... View more info
By: Committee On House Administration
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Washington DC, US Government Printing Office: 2008
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 15685
Book appears as new. Large, fully-illustrated compendium of all African-Americans who have served in the United States Congress. Large, heavy volume will require extra postage. ; B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 803 pages View more info
By: Cook, Will Marion and William Moore
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, G. Schirmer: 1907
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15674
Saddle-stitched, pictorial wraps with pale yellow and black tinted image of geese flying with the moon in the background has much edge wears and several tears, a number of which have tape mends. There is a former owner's name (Theda Gschwind) on the front, upper right. Some chipping and tearing on back edge as well as writing in pencil on back. Overall, this copy is in G- condition -- still presentable but with somewhat fragile edges. Will Marion Cook (b. 1869) began as ... View more info
By: Cunard, Nancy
Price: $500.00
Publisher: London, The Utopia Press Ltd.: 1931
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 15863
Stapled, tan wraps with black titles. Statement "Not for Sale" on rear wrap. The staples in this copy have rusted out. The booklet has been professionally cleaned, mainly at the staples, and carefully tipped together. Overall, there is some very light wear and the remnant of a vertical crease through the middle. This account of Cunard's marriage to a black man is quite uncommon. The book is an attack on racist attitudes and lynching, especially in America. This i... View more info
By: Cuthbert, Marion
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Friendship Press: 1936
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 15968
Pale blue wraps with black titles and black and pale blue image of children. This copy has a good bit of edge and corner wear along with toning and staining on wraps. The titles on the spine are readable but the spine is faded and almost worn away. What is especially interesting about this copy is that I can find no softcover copies for sale and WorldCat does not note any (as best I can tell.) I suspect that the softcover edition was fragile and that few survived since t... View more info
By: Davis, Angela and Fania Davis
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, International Publishers: ca. 1987
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16414
Stapled, pictorial wraps with B&W image by Charles White with black and white titles on red background. Booklet shows almost no wear or aging. This booklet by sisters Angela and Fania Davis focusses on the nature and importance of the African-American family. Angela Davis is the well-known activist and Communist whose arrest and trial in the late 1960's brought her international fame. Both she and her sister continue as activists today. This book has photographic images ... View more info
By: Decoy, Robert H.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Holloway House Publishing Company: 1971
Seller ID: 16062
White wraps with black and blue titles and picture of man in circle. Light, general wear with a slightly rolled spine which has reading creases. Two small numerical stamps on top edge. Still an attractive copy of this attack on the black preaching establishment. VG to VG+. DeCoy's first book was The Nigger Bible. This book does not state an edition, but during the 1970's Holloway House stopped making edition statements. This is likely to be a first but could be a later p... View more info
By: Demerson, Bamidele Agbasegbe
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Dayton, Dayton Visual Arts Center: 1997
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 15632
This small catlog has only very light, general wear. This is a catalog for an exhibition in Dayton, Ohio of Davis's work. It celebrated the artist's 60th birthday, Many nice illustrations. While the book is unpaginated, it has 16 pages. ; Color Photographs; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; Unpaginated pages View more info
By: Deodene, Frank and William P. French
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Chatham, The Chatham Bookseller: 1970
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16234
Stapled straw-colored wraps with black titles. Book has only very light general wear and aging along with a lightly sunned spine. A letter signed by Frank Deodene is affixed to the inside front wrap. This is a very attractive copy of this excellent bibliography. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 25 +ad page pages View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hamilton, Gallery Association of New York State: 1986
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 15634
Stapled, beige wraps with darker brown and black titles and B&W illustration. This catalog has very light, general wear. It was originally published for an exhibition at the Schomburg Center in New York. This second printing was for the travelling exhibition. Very nice copy with many illustrations. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 35 pages View more info
