Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Simultaneous Paperback First Edition. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xix, 285pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Previous owner's name in ink to half-title page. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: African..... More
Iowa City: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". 96pp. Surface paper loss to spine and covers of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A clean, solid copy of this work documenting the experiences of African Americans in Iowa beginning..... More
New York: Doubleday, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Oyinkan Braithwaite in ink to page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated first edition, first printing. 8 5/8" X 5 3/4". 364pp. Gentle shelfwear to dust jacket, with Signed First Edition sticker to front panel. Bound in blue paper over..... More
Cambridge: Radical America, 1973-1975. First Edition. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/4". Rubbing, toning, creasing, soiling, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text blocks. Slight lean to spines of some volumes. Age-toned pages are free of marks and notations. Bindings are sound..... More
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. Signed by editor and contributor, Mahogany L. Browne and contributor Whitney Greenaway in ink to title page. First edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 9" X 6". xxviii, 233pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper..... More
New York: Random House, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. This presentable first printing of Angela Y. Davis' landmark account of her life as one of the 1960s' most iconic Black activists comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist, theorist, activist, and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen (1950–2023)..... More
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New York: Popular Library, 1951. Paperback. A signed handwritten postcard on the author's stationery accompanies this 1960s Popular Library edition of the first novel by queer Black poet, novelist, and playwright Owen Vincent Dodson (1914–1983), who was incredibly influential in the development of the Black Theater Movement. Responding to a...... More
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xi, 469pp. Bound in black cloth over boards. Mild shelfwear to binding with rubbin to covers, corners, and edges of black cloth over boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumps to head and tail of spine..... More
New York: Atria Books, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6". 484pp. Mild rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bump to tail of spine. Gentle bumps to edges of blue paper over..... More
New York: One World, Ballantine Books, 2004. First Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. This powerful mother-daughter memoir offers a spectacular, bifocal view of the Civil Rights Movement, as told by Civil Rights activist Patricia Stephens Due and her daughter, award-winning speculative fiction novelist Tananarive Due, who signed and inscribed this copy..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Glory Edim in ink to page specially bound in by the publisher. First Edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xvii, 265pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust..... More
Toronto: Hanover Square Press, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Eve in ink at special publisher's page at front. 9 1/4" X 6". 266pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are..... More
London: Mantle, 2024. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Percival Everett in ink at title page. First U.K. Edition, with full number line indicating First Printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 302pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear..... More
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017. Third Printing. Paperback. Signed by Eve L. Ewing in ink at title page. 8" X 8". 94pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps, with faint dust soiling to covers and tiny crease to bottom corner. Pages are clean and..... More
New York: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., 2019. First Edition. Paperback. Both volumes are signed in ink by Eve L. Ewing at title page. Those With Courage is a second printing; Ten Rings is a first printing. 10 1/4" X 6 3/4". Unpaginated. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges..... More
Madison: The University of Wisconin Press, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". xix, 314pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In 1985 Johannes Fabian, while engaged in fieldwork in..... More
Birmingham: Wilson Fallin, Jr., 1997. First Edition. Paperback. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by Wilson Fallin, Jr. in ink at title page. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xiv, 220pp. Rubbing, creasing, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Non-sticky sticker residue to front cover..... More
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Andrew Feiler to title page. First edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 10 1/4" X 10 1/4". 102pp. Mild rubbing, bumps, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Very small tear..... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 9 1/4". 116pp. As New in publisher's shrink wrap. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A new consideration of extraordinary art created by Black artists during the mid-20th century My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of contemporary Black artists..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. An admittedly worn but presentable first printing in scarce dust jacket of this second book by Florida watercolorist Elvira Garner (1886–1956) following a Black boy from Sanford, Florida, written in Garner's interpretation of AAVE with her color illustrations inserted into..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xii, 229pp. Very mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bumps to bottom corners of blue cloth over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight..... More
New York: Clarkson Potter, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Nikole Hannah-Jones in ink to front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating First Printing. 12 1/4" X 10 1/2". 287pp. Bound in pictorial paper over boards. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of binding. Pages..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 258pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use..... More
New York: James Pott & Company, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. This landmark American anthology is the work of Hamilton Holt (1872–1951), long-tenured publisher of the progressive and internationalist magazine The Independent and vocal advocate for social reform, immigrant rights, and international peace, and later a founding member of the NAACP..... More
Boston: South End Press, 1993. First Edition. Paperback. "Before many of us can effectively sustain engagement in organized resistance struggle, in black liberation movement, we need to undergo a process of self-recovery that can heal individual wounds that may prevent us from functioning fully..." In Sisters of the Yam, the..... More
