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By: Father Divine (Rev. M. J. Divine)
Price: $585.00
Publisher: New York, Philadelphia, Father Divine: 1944
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 16530
Condition: Very Good
An engaging letter from the charismatic and controversial spiritual leader, Father Divine, exuding his characteristic and infectious positivity. Father Divine (1877-1965), also known as Reverend M. J. Divine, was a prominent African-American spiritual leader from about 1907 until his death. Allegedly born on a plantation in Georgia, his full self-given name was Rev. Major Jealous Divine. During the Great Depression, Divine founded the International Peace Mission movement, formulated its doctrine, and oversaw its growth from a small and predominantly black congregation into a multiracial and in... View more info
By: February, Vernon
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Kegan Paul International: 1988
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16236
ISBN: 0710302789
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book appears as new and unread. Jacket is also about fine but has just a touch of damage at bottom of spine. Despite its title this book is more about the growth of African literature in Creole ciultures than about music per se. There is a particular emphasis on the Dutch colonies of Surinam, South Africa and the Antilles. ; B&W Maps and Charts; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 212 pages View more info
By: Fisher, Antwone
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, William Morrow: 2003
Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 15627
ISBN: 0060549327
Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
This book is Fine in a like jacket. It is a collection of poetry by Antwone Fisher, Denzel Washington starred in a movie about Fisher, who came from an abusive childhood in foster homes to become a successful writer and director in Hollywood. This copy is signed boldly with a dedication on the title page. The ink from the Sharpie has bled through. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 61 pages; Signed by Author View more info
By: Fisher, Antwone
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Texas, Antwone Fisher: ca. 2010
Seller ID: 15800
Condition: Fine
Oblong card in pristine condition with the letterhead, Antwone Fisher. This is a note to a new acquaintance of Fisher's. Fisher says that he has sent books and invites the recipient to get in touch. This invitation seems genuine since Fisher's email and phone number are included. The note also includes mention of Mrs. Bush and Texas. Fisher's inspirational story was made into a film starring Denzel Washington. A blank envelope for the card is included. ; Autograph; Oblong 64mo 3" - 4½" tall; 1 pages View more info
By: Fleischer, Nat
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, The Ring / C. J. O'Brien, Inc.: 1938
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 13494
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Orange cloth over boards with black titles and illustration. No titles on spine, as is correct. Book would be near fine except for some aging on edges, light wear at the corners and a former owner's name in ink on the ffep. Book is square and securely bound. An unusually attractive copy. Volume 1 only of Fleischer's pioneering 5 volume set. ; The Ring Athletic Library, Book No. 14; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 182 pages View more info
By: Fleischer, Nat
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, The Ring / C. J. O'Brien, Inc.: 1947
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16126
Orange cloth with black titles and images. Some edge and corner wear with damage to bottom right front corner and bumps to other corners. Some soiling and aging. Front hinge has minor tearing but binding is secure and book is square. Overall, this copy is in the G+ to VG- range. Volume 5 only of Fleischer's pioneering 5 volume set on African-American fighters. ; The Ring Athletic Library; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 250 pages View more info
By: Fogelson, Genia
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Holloway House: 1979
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 11804
Condition: Very Good+
Pictorial wraps with very light edge and corner wear. A small number "8" is stamped three times on the bottom foredge (in a line). I don 't know if this is some sort of remainder mark or was done by a previous owner. The spine is neither creased nor cracked. Book seems unread. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 221 pages; Fogelson also wrote a biography of Harry Belafonte. View more info
By: Ford, James W.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York, Harlem Division of the Communist Part: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16425
Condition: Very Good
Stapled, white newsprint self-wraps with B&W images of Israel Amter and James W. Ford and black titles. Some light wear and general aging with a crease on the bottom rear front corner that affects several pages. VG to VG+. This pamphlet's purpose seems to be to support the candidacy of Israel Amter for the New York City Council. Amter had been one of the founding members of the Communist Party USA, and frequently ran for office. The author, James W. Ford, was, at this time, the most influential African-American in CPUSA and had run for President -- the first African-American to do so. Ford pro... View more info
By: Fradella, Sal
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston, Branden Publishing Company: 1990
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 15599
ISBN: 0828319316
Condition: Near Fine
Pictorial wraps with B&W photo of Jack Johnson and red and white titles. This copy has only very minor shelf wear. Rather short but informative biography of Johnson with many photographs. This book is one of a series of books on African-Americans titled, "They Didn't Know It Couldn't Be Done." ; "They Didn't Know It Couldn't Be Done"; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 116 pages View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: 1959
Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing
Seller ID: 15371
Book has only light wear and aging. Still square and securely bound. VG to VG+. The jacket has a dime-sized chip on the top front edge along with some other minor chips, tears and scuffs. Browning on interior page edges. VG-. This was Frazier's first book of poetry, written after he had served in the army and returned home to Chicago and was attending Junior College. He is not a polished poet, but his lines do have power. He does poetic portraits of fifteen mainly contemporary, at the time, African Americans: Jackie Robinson, Marion Anderson, George Washington Carver, Althea Gibson, Mahalia Ja... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Boston, Chapman & Grimes. Inc.: 1947
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 15410
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Light brown, leatherette over boards with gilt titles on spine. Light wear on edges and corners along with mild aging. Square and securely bound. Jacket also has light wear with a light smudge near the bottom of the spine and some age-toning. Originally from Virginia and New Jersey, Gholson was a wll-known African-American minister in Winston Salem NC. Gholson at different times, pastored First Baptist Church, First Institutional Baptist Church (which merged with the West End Baptist Church to become United Metropolitan Baptist Church) and Holy Trinity Baptist Church, all in Winston-Salem. In... View more info
By: Gifford, Justin
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2015
Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing
Seller ID: 16098
ISBN: 0385538340
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Book has only very light, general wear but with a remainder mark on bottom edge; near fine without remainder mark. Jacket has some light wear along with light edge toning and soiling. Excellent biography of Iceberg Slim. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 265 pages View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Self-Published: 1994
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16610
Condition: Fine
Stapled, blue wraps with black titles. Book appears as new. It is signed by the author, a Tuskegee Airman on the back of the title page, It is also signed on the cover by Bill Campbell, who flew in WWII, Korea and Vietnam, and on the inside front cover by five more Airmen: Fred Pendleton, Ronald L. Lucas, Sam Broadnax, Arthur Harmon and Les Williams. I think all of these men are now dead. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 33 pages; Signed by Collection of Signatures View more info
By: Gilmer, J. Lance
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Holloway House: 1977
Seller ID: 15922
ISBN: 0870670395
Condition: Very Good
Some light edge, corner and surface wear including mild scuffing near spine edge. Spine is neither creased nor cracked. It is square and securely bound and probably unread. VG to VG+. This Holloway House #BH039. I think it is probably a second printing; I think the first printing would have had a higher number following the "BH." This is another of Holloway House's black urban fiction novels in the tradition of Donald Goines and Joseph Nazel. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 224 pages; Sold to Emory 12/14/10. View more info
By: Gober, Don
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Holloway House: 1974
Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing
Seller ID: 16397
ISBN: 0870674617
Condition: Very Good
This copy appears to have been read and has a slight lean to the spine along withreasonably light edge, corner and surface wear. Still a solid copy. Don Gober was one of the pen names of Joseph Nazel who was an editor and writer at Holloway House. After Donald Goines, he was the most popular writer of black, urban fiction. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 224 pages View more info
By: Gober, Don
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Holloway House: 1976
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16609
ISBN: 0870674870
Condition: Near Fine
Pictorial wraps with red titles. This is probably as nice a copy of this book as can be found. It has very light wear and aging, mainly just slight toning on interior edges. Square and securely bound. About NF. # BH 487. Don Gober was one of the pseudonyms for Joseph Nazel, one of the most prolific African-American writers and editors for Holloway House. This is a novel of the LA police and a possible Presidential assassination. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 222 pages View more info
By: Goines, Donald
Price: $285.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Holloway House Publishing Company: 1972
Edition: 1st Edition, Stated; First Printing
Seller ID: 16060
ISBN: 08708674218
Black paperback with red titles and picture of woman. Some light edge and corner wear. Spine is neither cracked nor creased. Binding is square and secure; this copy seems to be unread. Interior has typical light toning of pages. VG+ to NF. This is an especially attractive copy of Goines' second novel and one of his most important. It is also quite scarce in a true first edition in attractive condition. After Goines' murder, his earlier works were reissued with new covers that mentioned his death, even as the text block still identified them as firsts. This is the true first; no mention of Go... View more info
By: Granger, Lester B., et. al.
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Chicago, National Urban League: 1943
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 16052
Condition: Very Good
Stapled, tan wraps with black titles. Some edge and corner wear with light loss at top left front corner and very minor loss at front bottom left. There are one or two short closed tears on edges and toning on front where books were stacked on this program, along with light overall aging. Binding is still secure and book is square, a solid very good copy with noted problems. This is the report from the National Urban League Conference held September 28 - October 2, 1943. The report has an essay on the general activities of the League followed by over twenty essays, by various authors, on speci... View more info
By: Greater Norwalk Section National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Norwalk, Greater Norwalk Section National Council of Negro Women, Inc.: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15835
This is a Norwalk, Connecticut program for a Harambee Luncheon in 1977. It is saddle-stapled with a slightly stiff cardboard front wrap with black titles and B&W illustrations. The program has very light wear with some minor finger indents on the front. No rear wrap -- not sure if there was one or if the program was published without one. Overall, VG+ to NF. "Harambee," which means "to pull together" in Swahili was a traditional ceremony or community event in Kenya. In the US the National Council of Negro Women sponsored various Harambee events as a way to bring African-American women together... View more info
By: Grimke, Archibald H., M.A.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York And London, Funk & Wagnalls Company: 1891
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 16790
Reddish cloth with gilt titling on spine and front. Some edge, corner and surface wear with boards showing at some corners. There is some tearing along the hinges but the binding is still secure and the book square. One interior page seems to have a child's blue crayon markings on it. Overall this copy has its problems but is still in the G+ range. This is an interesting biography of Garrison by an African-American author who was a nephew of the well-known South Carolina Grimke Sisters. Grimke was a lawyer, journalist and diplomat who served as Vice-President of the NAACP around 1914. ; Americ... View more info
By: Hall, Charles E. and Z. R. Pettet
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Washington DC, US Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census: 1935
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 15449
Condition: Very Good
Original cloth with some edge and corner wear along with mild aging. Still square and securely bound with no tears or parting. Supplementing two census volumes issued before World War I - though nearly three times as long as that of 1915 - this is a treasure-trove of government-gathered information about Black Americans during the crucial period of postwar Northern “urbanization” that saw the cultural birth of the Harlem Renaissance through the harrowing early years of the Depression. The statistics include age distribution, marital conditions, fertility, school attendance and “illiterac... View more info
By: Hammerstein, Oscar (Words) and Jerome Kern (Music)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Chappell & Co.: 1937
Seller ID: 16433
Condition: Good+
Lavender background with B&W photograph of Robeson and B&W titles. Some edge, corner and surface wear with the bottom right corner damaged and a small diagonal piece torn away. Some other small chips and tears. Two names written in ink in top margin area. Overall G+ or slightly better. The music was a little large for my scanner bed so part of sheet does not show. This is, I think, the first English publication of music from Showboat. Wonderful image of Robeson. ; Cover Photograph of Paul Robeson; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 4 pages View more info
By: Hammon, Jupiter
Price: $40.00
Publisher: San Diego, William F. Northrop: 1978
Edition: First Edition Thus; First Printing
Seller ID: 16007
Condition: Fine
This is a facsimile printing of the original 1760 poem. Publisher's Notes and limitation number (189) on rear. Tattered edges, as in the original, on all sides. This also has a separate explanation sheet, by the publisher William Northrop. Hammon was a black poet and a slave who became the first African American to be published in America . There is only one copy of the original 1760 broadside, held by the NY Historical Society.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 2 pages View more info
By: Hancock, Sybyl
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1977
Edition: 1st Softcover Edition, Stated; First Printing
Seller ID: 15600
ISBN: 0152073930
Condition: Near Fine
Beige, pictorial wraps with illustration of cowboy wrangling a bull and red and green titles. Book has very light shelf wear. Still square and securely bound with a spine that is neither cracked nor creased. This is the story of Bill Pickett, the first black rodeo star. This is a children's book from the " Let Me Read book" series. ; a Let Me Read book; B&W Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 61 pages View more info
By: Handy, W. C.
Price: $600.00
Publisher: New York, W. C. Handy: 1943
Seller ID: 15311
Condition: Very Good
W.C. Handy (1873-1958) brought blues music to the fore of American Music from its modest regional roots. Considered one of the most influential songwriters with a stunning number of classic compositions to his credit not the least being "Saint Louis Blues" and "Memphis Blues". Later in his career he authored four books on African-American composers and music history. His funeral was attended by thousands in Harlem and over a hundred thousand mourners lined the streets in the Bronx to his grave site. Offered is a typed letter signed 11 x 8½" on Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc... View more info
