New York: Common Council for American Unity, 1943 - 1945. Kurt Werth, Bernardine Custer, David Fredenthal illustrations. First Editions. Stiff printed wrappers. 8vo. Pp. 120 (vol. III nos. 3, 4); 112 (vol. III no. 5, vol. V nos. 1, 2.) Each issue illustrated with a pp. 8 section of b&w.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. 469. Illustrated with a 32 page section of photo reproductions on coated paper. With index. Red cloth backstrip with silver foil titles, blue paper covered boards: spine tail a tad bumped. In the color photo illustrated.....
New Haven: College & University Press, (1962). Stiff Illustrated Wrappers. 8vo. Pp. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Bound in stiff wraps featuring a photo of Cable on the front cover. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Slight wear to cover. A handsome copy. Inscription, to Howard University historian John Lovell.....
New York: RAW Books & Graphics, 1986. Sue Coe. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. [30]. Color illustrated paper covered boards, illustrated endpapers. Edges lightly rubbed, binding tight. The English political artist's illustrated companion to Malcom X's autobiography, interspersed with Judith Moore's Concurrent Events.
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, (1979). Second printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 4to. Pp. xxxii, 464. Frontis. black & white photograph. Edited and abridged with an introduction by Hugh Ford. Foreword by Nancy Cunard. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions, music scores and drawings. Index. Bound in brown.....
Washington, D.C. Howard University Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 306. With black-and-white photo portraits. Selective bibliography. Index. Bound in blue cloth with white lettering stamped on front cover and spine. In the dust jacket. With advance notice clippings from the publisher's catalog laid-in. Davis.....
New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. Lee Friedlander. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Oblong 4to. Pp. 119. Illustrated throughout with Lee Friedlander's black & white photography. Afterward by Whitney Balliett. Bound in scarlet-red cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine and lettering stamped on cover. Clean and fresh. In the.....
New York: The Dial Press, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. x, 245. Brown leatherette in illustrated dust jacket with $6.95 price present. Tiny scuff to front board, lightest wear to corners and extremities of dust jacket. A collectible copy. Novel written in the guise.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1976. First Edition. Stiff wrappers. 8vo. Pp. 569. Bound in stiff paper wraps; label stapled and tipped to front cover. Rubbed edges; notes to advance readers faded. Uncorrected proof copy of the landmark work concerning African American history and autobiography. One of the most.....
Memphis, TN: The Wimmer Companies, (1993). First Edition. Hardcover, comb-bound. 8vo. Pp. viii, 222, index. Illustrated red boards, comb-bound. Spine lettered in yellow. Cover and endpaper color illustrations by Faith Ringgold. Fine. Dorothy Height was a leading civil rights and women's rights activist. She focused on the issues of African-American.....
Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. xiii, [1], 222. Bibliography. Index. Bound in full black cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. In the dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket are in notably bright condition, with the dust jacket spine.....
New York: Atheneum, 1990. Mark Hess (dust jacket illustration). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Pp. 209. Bound in black half-cloth over burgundy paper-covered boards, silver lettering stamped on spine, In the dust jacket with $17.95 price intact on the front flap. Signed by Charles Johnson on the title page.....
Sausalito, California: Trans-European Publications, (1975). First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. Pp. 184, plus several pages of advertisements. Bound in wraps with black & white illustration on cover. Some creasing to spine, slight tanning to pages. A Liverpool Original "For Entertainment of Adults Only - Sale to Minors Prohibited" that's pure below-the-belt.....
Berkeley: Heyday Books Baytree Books, 2008. First thus. Illustrated wrappers. Octavo. Pp xxiii, 69. A bright, fresh copy. From the foreword: "Archy Lee's story takes the civil rights activities of California Black men out of the shadows and provides some idea of their scope and vigor." A pioneering study in.....
New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1998. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to. Pp. 87. Illustrated, mostly color. Blue boards lettered in red. Slightest wear to corners else Fine in Fine dust jacket. Fine examples of the artist's courageous work drawing on African American caricatures of yore, and stereotypes that.....
Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, (2001). First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. 4to. Pp. 336. Bibliography. Index. Frontis. color reproduction of a painting by Jacob Lawrence. Foreword by the editor, Peter T. Nesbett. Illustrated throughout with color reproductions of Lawrence's paintings. Bound in stiff printed wraps with color paintings.....
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New York: Othello Associates, (1958). First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. 8vo. Pp. 128. Bound in stiff photo-illustrated wraps, just a touch of edge-wear. Inscribed by Robeson on half-title, without identifying the inscribee. An international star in the 1930s, Robeson was the most famous black man in America by 1940. During.....
New York: Rachel Robinson, (1987). Second Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. 287, [3]. Illustrated Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. in dust jacket with light wear to extremities, light soiling. Inscribed by Jackie Robinson's wife, who also published this edition, with COA laid in. Dust jacket is now.....
[Columbia, South Carolina]: Georgia Rogers and Shash Woods, (2017). First Edition. Stiff printed wraps. 8vo. Pp. 168. Illustrated throughout with black & white photography. Bibliography. Bound in stiff photo-illustrated wraps. Signed by the authors on the title page. A history of the People's Learning Center, a workshop designed to increase.....
Washington, D.C. U.S. House of Representatives, 1870. First Edition. Sewn Signatures, Excised. 8vo. Pp. 1-255. Removed extract, binding intact. Leaves crisp and bright, edges a touch dust-soiled and minimally age-toned. Report of Brevet Brigadier General B. P. Runkle, chairman of a board of army officers investigating claims of fraud in.....
New York: Greenberg, (1948). First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. 170. Foreword by Branch Rickey. Illustrated throughout with black & white photography. Bound in red cloth with black lettering printed on spine and illustration of Jackie Robinson printed on cover. A hint of age-toning to leaf edges. In.....
Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. Hammatt Billings. Early Reprint. Hardcover in Clamshell Case. Two volumes. 8vo. Pp. x, 14-312; iv, 6-322. Illustrated title pages. With six additional full-page Billings illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spines, title page vignette in gilt on the upper.....
New York / Munich: The Museum of African Art / Prestel, (1993). First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 4to. Pp. 336 with 282 full color and 27 b/w illustrations. Light brown cloth lettered in dark brown. Very Good, faint stain foot of spine, nick to cloth on front board, slightest.....
Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company, (1971). First Edition. Stiff Paper Wrappers. 8vo. Pp. xi, 282. Bound in illustrated stiff paper wraps. First edition. A bright, fresh copy with a small check mark on the title page being the only detracting quality.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1928. Fourteenth Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 286. Glossary of "negro words and phrases." Black cloth, titles stamped in yellow with blue decorations on the cover and spine, publisher logo stamped in blind on the cover. Title page printed in blue and black.....