New York: Basic Books, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very large 4to. Faux leather. Dust jacket. 2093 pp. Burn mark on right edge of front jacket cover. Minor shelf wear. This is a first edition, single-volume edition of Appiah and Gates' landmark encyclopedia of Africana. This very large item will require..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1968. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. This is a vintage paperback book about the fight for Black civil rights in Mississippi. 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
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. Paperback. Large 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. This is a scholarly text about the relationship between architecture and race. More
New York: Delta, 1971. 5th printing. Paperback. Minor shelf wear. This is an early printing of Black Panther icon Cleaver's influential autobiography. More
Detroit: Red Times, 1972. Folio. 8 pp. Minor shelf wear to edges. This is an uncommon Communist newspaper by the Detroit organization Youth Against War and Fascism. This issue features articles on McGovern, Busing, several unions and strikes, rising food prices in Detroit, and more. More
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback. This is a socological study of grassroots feminist activism among Black women in Chicago public housing. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. Hardcover. Square 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Full color plates. Minor shelf wear. This is an exploration of how art shapes the lives of the more than 2 million incercerated Americans. 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
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1998. First Thus. Cloth. 12mo. Grey cloth with gilt lettering on spine and Lakeside Press device in gilt on front cover. Gilt top edge. Frontispiece and photographic plates. 355 pp. Spine uncracked. A fine, unread copy. This is a limited edition Lakeside Press printing of Keckley's' memoir..... 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
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New York: Publishers Company Inc., 1968. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. Cloth. Many photographs throughout each volume. Minor shelf wear. This is a set of 3 volumes of the vintage International Library of Negro Life and History series. This set includes the following: The History of the Negro in Medicine..... More
New York: Arno / New York Times, 1969. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. This is an uncommon vintage paperback about Black life in Harlem in the first half of the 20th century. More
Chicago: Bolden, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. 8vo. Wraps. Inscribed on title page. This is a signed first printing collection of columns by longtime Chicago Tribune journalist Page. More
11"x8.25". Very good condition with press label pasted to verso reading "Greensboro North Carolina Anti Ku Klux Klan Nov 12 1979 E." This is an original press photo from the archives of the Baltimore Sun. Caption reads: "GREENSBORO, N.C., Nov. 12 -- POLICE SEARCH -- A Greensboro policeman searches a...... 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: Simon and Schuster, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Infrequent marginal notes. This is a first printing of Pulitzer-winner Wills' book. This item previously belonged to literary agent Lydia Wills, daughter of Garry Wills. 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