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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1900.
8vo. 200 pp. Front free endpaper pasted down to cover. Green cloth binding with white flowers and lettering. Ex-Library, with former owner's bookplate present. Overall, in good condition. more information
Price: 64.00 USD
Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1986.
8vo. 211 pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author by Sherilyn Van Valkenburgh. Richly tooled green leather with raised bands and marbled endpapers. All gilt edges. Ribbon marker. Frontispiece. Decorative head-- and tailpieces. Signed by the author. Minor scratching on gilt edges, otherwise in fine condition. more information
Price: 95.00 USD
New York: Self published, Handy Brothers Music Co, (1944).
4to. 236pp. Dark blue leatherette with gold lettering on cover. Inscribed by William Handy on free front endpaper, dated 5/21/1951. Name of person Handy inscribed the book to unreadable. Frontispiece portrait of Handy. Small publisher's stamp on title-page. Captivating work focusing on musical compositions / scores by and about African Americans. Also includes poems and biographical sketches of other important African Americans such as Ira Aldridge, Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Phyllis Wheatley, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, WM. Monroe Trotter, Isaac Murphy, Toussaint L'Ouverture and many others. Illustrated with b/w sketches by Beauford De Laney as well as a few... more information
Price: 175.00 USD
New York: Dodd Mead, 1901.
Decorative green cloth, t.e.g. lower edges uncut. 127 pp. Black & white photos with green, oval decorative borders. Octavo. Age-worn, otherwise good to very good. Beautiful photographs of African-American life and portraits and lovely decorations. more information
Price: 175.00 USD
New York: Dodd Mead, 1899.
16mo. Decorative gilt-stamped green cloth binding, t.e.g., lower edges uncut. 227 pp. Frontispiece photograph of Dunbar. Very good condition. more information
Price: 175.00 USD
Grand rapids: The Abra Cadabra Press, (1970).
8vo. 25, [1]pp. Original illustrated green wraps. Collection of 19 poems by Herbert Woodward Martin. Discoloration, creasing and some staining on wraps. Original price on bottom right corner of front wrapper crossed-out with black pen and "by the pound" in hand writing. Blind-stamped ex-libris of Jean Marie on half-title page. Wraps in fair, interior in very good condition. more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Chicago: Duke Publishing Co, 1957.
4to. 70pp. Original pictorial color wraps. Scarce first issue of Duke magazine. The magazine was published for an African-American audience and featured reprinted works by artists such as Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, Erskine Caldwell and others. After Hugh Hefner first published Playboy in 1953, dozens of clones appeared. This 'African-American Playboy' clone was issued in June 1957. American pianist and journalist, Dan Burley was the editor. Burley edited many African American publications such as Ebony, Jet, New York Age and the Amsterdam News. He also appeared in films, performed with Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and many... more information
Price: 375.00 USD
1836.
Original drab green cloth (4-1/4" x 7") with "SLAVERY" in gilt lettering on the spine. A collection of 6 pamphlets on the subject as follows: 1.) THE CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY: WITH THE DECLARATION OF THE NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION AT PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER, 1833, AND THE ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC, ISSUED BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIETY, IN SEPTEMBER, 1835. New-York: American Anti-Slavery Society. 1838. 12 pages. Sabin 81824. 2.) WESLEY: THOUGHTS UPON SLAVERY (Caption title). n.d. Postscript dated 1791. 24 pages. First published in 1774, this edition dates to the 1830s. Sabin 102680. 3.) DOES THE BIBLE... more information
Price: 5000.00 USD
NY: John Wiley, [2000],
Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Owner's rubberstamp to first blank page, else very fine. more information
Price: 12.00 USD
NY: Dial Press, [1968],
Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of tha author's first book. Illustrated by Tom Feelings. "The ancestry of any black American can be traced to a bill of sale and no further." Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. more information
Price: 75.00 USD
Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, [1986],
4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. The only comprehensive monograph on Lawrence, published on the occasion of a major exhibition. Profusely illustrated. As new. more information
Price: 75.00 USD
Santa Barbara: John Daniel, 1990,
A trade Paperback Original. The author's first book. A highly acclaimed collection of stories set in the Oakland slums. As new. more information
Price: 3.50 USD
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987,
Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of the author's highly acclaimed first book. Briefly inscribed by McMillan. Fine (trivial touch of wear to dj). more information
Price: 325.00 USD
[NY]: Viking, [1989],
Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of the author's second book. Review copy with slip and publisher's material. Additionally, this copy is briefly inscribed by the author. Very fine. more information
Price: 125.00 USD
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1994,
Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. As new. more information
Price: 15.00 USD
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1984],
Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Poems. Signed by Walker. Fine (imperceptible sunning to portion of back panel of dust jacket). more information
Price: 65.00 USD
NY: W.W. Norton, [1992],
Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author. Very fine. more information
Price: 45.00 USD
NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1982],
Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the author. Fine (couple of tiny spots of foxing to page edges) in dust jacket with the small HBJ symbol on the spine faded. An unusually bright, sharp copy of a difficult title. more information
Price: 250.00 USD
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1992],
Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of the author's highly acclaimed first book. Briefly inscribed by Pickney. Fine. more information
Price: 20.00 USD
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, [1992],
Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of the author's first book. Fine. more information
Price: 5.00 USD
