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Win Progress for Harlem

By: Ford, James W.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harlem Division of the Communist Part: 1939

Seller ID: 16425

Binding: Softcover

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...
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Historical Romance of the American Negro

By: Fowler, Charles H.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Baltimore, Press of Thomas & Evans: 1902

Seller ID: 16976

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Somewhat faded maroon cloth over boards with blindstamped title and design on front and gilt tiles on spine. This copy has wear, aging and soiling. There is one bit of damage about midway down the spine and a small hole on the front spine edge near the bottom. Also, there are faded areas on both front and rear along the edge. Please see scan. The binding, however, has no tears or parting, and the book is square. There is a name and a library sticker on the front pastedown and I have found one interior stamp for Morgan College Library in Baltimore. Morgan began as an African-American college. T...
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The Blue Grass Cook Book

By: Fox, Minnie C.

Price: $325.00

Publisher: New York, Fox, Duffield & Company: 1904

Seller ID: 17132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

. Light wear on spine and corners. Light toning on edges though pages are clean. End papers appear to have been replaced. Book is square and binding is secure with no tears or parting. No dust jacket. VG+.; B&W Photographs; Small 8vo 7" - 8" tall; 350 pages; Ten page Introduction by John Fox Jr. , the author's brother. Frontispiece and eleven halftone photographs on coated paper by Alvin Langdon Coburn. (Occasionally, desriptions list a frontispiece and twelve photos but the photos of corn dodger and beaten biscuits are on the same page. ) Most of the photographs show African-American cooks;...
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Jack Johnson

By: Fradella, Sal

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Branden Publishing Company: 1990

Seller ID: 15599

ISBN: 0828319316

Binding: Softcover

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
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Fifteen Familiar Faces in Verse

By: Frazier, Max Yergan

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press: 1959

Seller ID: 15371

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Negro Looks into the South

By: Gholson, Rev. Edward

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Chapman & Grimes. Inc.: 1947

Seller ID: 15410

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim

By: Gifford, Justin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2015

Seller ID: 16098

ISBN: 0385538340

Binding: Hardcover

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
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The Tuskegee Experiment and Tuskegee Airmen, 1939 - 1949: Establishing America's Black Air Force for WW II

By: Gillead, Le Roy F.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Self-Published: 1994

Seller ID: 16610

Binding: Softcover

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
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Black Cop

By: Gober, Don

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Holloway House: 1974

Seller ID: 16397

ISBN: 0870674617

Binding: Softcover

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
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Killing Ground!

By: Gober, Don

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Holloway House: 1976

Seller ID: 16609

ISBN: 0870674870

Binding: Softcover

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. # BH 487. Don Gober was one of several 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
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Whoreson :The Story of a Ghetto Pimp

By: Goines, Donad

Price: $285.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Holloway House Publishing Company: 1972

Seller ID: 16060

ISBN: 08708674218

Binding: Softcover

15457; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 279 pages
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Victory Through Unity: Annual Conference, National Urban League, 1943

By: Granger, Lester B., et. al.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Chicago, National Urban League: 1943

Seller ID: 16052

Binding: Softcover

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...
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"Harambee Luncheon" Program, 1977

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

Seller ID: 15835

Binding: Program

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...
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William Lloyd Garrison: The Abolitionist

By: Grimke, Archibald H., M.A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York And London, Funk & Wagnalls Company: 1891

Seller ID: 16790

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Negroes in the United States, 1920-1932

By: Hall, Charles E. and Z. R. Pettet

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Washington DC, US Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census: 1935

Seller ID: 15449

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man Sheet Music from Showboat, 1937

By: Hammerstein, Oscar (Words) and Jerome Kern (Music)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Chappell & Co.: 1937

Seller ID: 16433

Binding: Sheet Music

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
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Image for An evening thought. Salvation by Christ, with penetential cries: composed by Jupiter Hammon, a Negro belonging to Mr. Lloyd, of Queens' Village on Long-Island, the 25th of December, 1760 (facsimile broadside)

An evening thought. Salvation by Christ, with penetential cries: composed by Jupiter Hammon, a Negro belonging to Mr. Lloyd, of Queens' Village on Long-Island, the 25th of December, 1760 (facsimile broadside)

By: Hammon, Jupiter

Price: $40.00

Publisher: San Diego, William F. Northrop: 1978

Seller ID: 16007

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Bill Pickett: First Black Rodeo Star

By: Hancock, Sybyl

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1977

Seller ID: 15600

ISBN: 0152073930

Binding: Softcover

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
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W. C. Handy Letter, Signed -- to a fan, 1943

By: Handy, W. C.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: New York, W. C. Handy: 1943

Seller ID: 15311

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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On the Origin of the Afro-American Nation

By: Harris, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Communist Workers Party, U.S.A.: 1979

Seller ID: 16894

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

This side-stapled, beige booklet has some general wear on edges and the cover. It would be in VG+ condition except for a tear on the back cover near the top of the spine that affects two interior pages as well. There is no lossand all text is readable though the tear affects some on each page. This booklet was excerpted from a Workers Viewpoint Organization presentation on the African National Question in Washington DC on May 12, 1979. IThe subject matter is both historical and polemical. ; B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 9 pages
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The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic

By: Harris, William J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Columbia, University of Missouri Press: 1985

Seller ID: 15633

ISBN: 0826202764

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Book has only very light wear with a couple of small nicks. It is square and securely bound, very close to near fine, The jacket has light edge, corner and surface wear with some small tears or chips at some corners and light scuffing at some folds. Overall, this is a solid copy in a still atrractive jacket. The book is an interesting study of Baraka's poetry and its relationship to jazz. This was a review copy with the review notice laid in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 174 pages
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The Key: Aesthetic Club Annual, Bluefield State College

By: Harris-Jefferson, Othello Maria and Shirley Painter

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Bluefield, Aesthetic Club: 1945

Seller ID: 15539

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

Stapled, pale green wraps with black titles and illustration. This copy had some wather damage many years ago and consequently has light waviness on all pages which luckily were a slick stock. There is also some light soiling and wear. Two names are written in ink on the rear wrap. Overall, this booklet is in solid and presentable condition. The yearbook is not dated but there are references to a student play for 1946. Bluefield State College is a historically African-American College established in 1895. This booklet is the annual yearbook for the Aesthetic Club, a female student organization...
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Esquire, November 1962

By: Hayes, Harold T. P. (ed.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Esquire Inc.: 1962

Seller ID: 16905

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

This copy has light, general wear and aging/soiling with some damage (chips and tears) along the spine. It is still square and securely bound. VG. This issue of Esquire has an article on the attempt to get the sentence of Benjamin Reid changed from death to life in prison. The article was written by William Styron who had take a special interest in Reid's case and attended the hearings that determined Reid's fate. There is also a clumn by Norman Mailer in this issue along with many other interesting articles and departments. ; Color and B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 182 pages
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New-York Conspiracy, or a History of the Negro Plot with the Journal of the Proceedings Against the Conspirators at New-York in the Years 1741-42 ...

By: Horsmanden, Daniel

Price: $900.00

Publisher: New York, Southwick & Pelsue: 1810

Seller ID: 16895

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Second American edition. 8vo. (1)-385, [7] pp. Illustrated with tables at rear. Modern quarter calf over paper-covered boards; all edges untrimmed; scattered light foxing and spotting to text, some dampstaining at bottom edge of title-page and prelims; early ownership signature at head of title-page. Sabin 33060; Howes H-652."Chief source on the 'Negro Plot' of 1741; of the 174 indicted two thirds were found guilty, on what seems frail evidence [of conspiring to kill slave owners by poisoning their water supply]..." (Howes H-652); Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 385 pages
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Troubled Island : An Opera in Three Acts

By: Hughes, Langston (libretto) and William Grant Still (music)

Price: $480.00

Publisher: New York, Leeds Music Corporation: 1949

Seller ID: 16307

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Stapled, pale blue wraps with deep red titles. This copy is toned around the edges and has some light wear at the spine but, otherwise, seems unused. Without the toning this would be a near fine copy. This opera, based on the Haitian revolution, was begun by composer Stills and librettist Hughes in 1936. Hughes eventually left the project and the libretto was completed by Verna Arvey who went on the marry Still. This edition, of the libretto only, lists only Hughes as the author. Some controversy surrounds the opera's limited run, since accusations were made that New York critics offered negat...
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Category: African - American