New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. 125 pp. Minor shelf wear. This is an uncorrected proof of Baldwin's examination of a series of child murders in 1980 Atlanta. Very uncommon. More
New York: Macmillan, 1965. Book club edition. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 415 pp. Shelf wear and sunning to jacket. Tearing to header of jacket spine. This is an early book club edition of Brown's memoir of life in Harlem. More
Kingston, Jamaica: Kingston Publishers Limited, 1977. First Edition. 8vo. Red faux leather with gilt text. Dust jacket. 207 pp. Association copy. Signed by the author to Cecil Charlton, former mayor of Mandeville, Jamaica. Book is signed multiple times with different pens, and there are scribbles on the front free endpaper..... More
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback. This is a socological study of grassroots feminist activism among Black women in Chicago public housing. More
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 113 pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket. Full page inscription by the author on front free endpaper. Inscribed to educator and activist Beverly Anderson. This is an uncommon signed book about reframing African history from an Afrocentric..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. 208 pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket. This is a first printing of Kozol's critical examination of the American public school system. More
New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1968. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. With black and white photographs. 258 pp. Minor shelf wear. This is the first paperback edition of Osofsky's history of Harlem. More
University of Chicago Press, 1984. First Edition. Cloth. This is a first edition sociological study of eight Chicago neighborhoods, focusing on "decline, gentrification, or stability in the face of high and low crime rates and minority presence." More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. 243 pp. Minor shelf wear. This is an uncommon uncorrected proof of Wideman's memoir. More
New York: Henry Holt, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. 204 pp. Minor edge wear. This is an uncommon uncorrected proof of Woods' collection of columns from apartheid South Africa. More