London and New York: Ernest Nister & E.P. Dutton and Company, 1896. First edition. Bound in publisher's pictorial boards backed in white cloth. Near Fine with small nick to spine, faint stain to back board, very light foxing to endpapers. A very clean, bright copy with sharp gilt. The famous..... More
New York: Time Inc., 1993. Volume 1, No. 3. November 1993. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. 120 pp. Near Fine with light reading wear, hint of toning. Includes subscription card. This issue features Living Colour's Vernon Reid interviewing funk legend George Clinton, profiles of Chaka Khan, Boyz II..... More
New York: Time Inc., 1993. The very first issue of hip hop and R&B magazine Vibe. Volume 1, No. 1. September 1993. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. 140 pp. Near Fine with light reading wear, hint of toning. Includes Columbia House and Vibe subscription cards. Rare. The debut of..... More
[Los Angeles]: Quincy Troupe, 1968. First edition. Signed by Quincy Troupe, poet and biographer of Miles Davis; inscribed to photographer and filmmaker Sedat Pakay, "Keep on pushin!" with Troupe's address and phone number written below. His collected poetry from the past 50 years was released in 2022 by Seven Stories..... More
[Portland, OR]: [No Publisher], 2002. Original 11" x17" b/w flyer for a 2002 Portland, Oregon show by group of turntablists X-ecutioners and radical Oakland hip hop group The Coup. Very Good with a few pinholes and faint wrinkling. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1954. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards over green spine cloth lettered in black. Near Fine in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with a rubber stamp number to the front panel, light toning, soiling and wear, creases to..... More
Alton, Illinois: Alton Museum of History & Art, 1989. 115 pp. Publisher's original comb-bound printed stiff wraps, with additional 14-page insert laid in. Near Fine, with light shelf wear, light soiling to wraps. Compiled by The Committee on Black Pioneers, whose mission was to document and preserve the art and..... More
[np]: J.A. Rogers, [1917]. First edition. 128 pp. w/ publisher's announcement tipped-in to last page's margin. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with black lettering. Very Good+ with slightly soiled cloth, light rubbing along edges. Rare. The Jamaican-American writer's first book, a self-published attack on racist ideas about Black people in..... More
Chicago: Washington Intercollegiate Club of Chicago Incorporated, 1927. First edition. Signed by Frederic Robb with a warm inscription the former owner. 232 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy leatherette. Near Fine, worn at tips. No jacket, presumably as issued. The first of two volumes, the second volume being published in..... More
Toldedo, OH: Pioneer Publishing, 1945. First edition. Signed by the author and inscribed to his good friend in the year of publication on the portrait frontis. Very Good with toning, soiling and light wear to wraps. The second of two books written by this African American author. Bound in publisher's..... More
Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1817. First edition. 94 pp. with five engraved plates and frontis. Recent quarter leather with marbled paper sides, black title label lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with occasional offsetting and a few minor stains, small loss to inner hinge at p. 85. A rare abolitionist..... More
New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1984. Original 18" x 24" poster for a 20 year retrospective of the Black feminist artist's work, showcasing her quilt Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima. Another retrospective of her work opened at the New Museum in New York in 2022. Very Good, folded..... More
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with lean and light sunning to spine, pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket, rubbed at the extremities with wear at the head, foxing and light staining..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First edition. 266 pp. Original gray cloth with pictorial black lettering, red top stain. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with small chips at extremities, closed tear along foot. The African-American author's follow-up to her debut novel The Street, set in New England..... More
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Torch Press, 1925. First edition. Signed by Elizabeth David Richards on the front free endpaper with inscription. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over patterned blue spine cloth with paper title label to spine and upper board. Near Fine with light rubbing to corners and spine..... More
Auburn / Buffalo: Derby and Miller / Derby, Orton & Mulligan, 1853. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind with spine lettered in gilt. A poor copy, with heavily binding worn and soiled, front hinge tender, missing preliminary pages including the portrait frontis and..... More
Cincinnati: W.H. Ferguson Company, [1896]. First edition. 720 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in black, blue, and gilt. Very Good, front board stained, creased spine panel, cloth at head repaired, worn tips, back board scratched, thumb smudges to text. Binding sturdy. Rare. An illustrated late-19th century self-help..... More
New York: Students for a Democratic Society, [1968]. First edition, New York SDS variant. [3]-14 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps.Very Good with toning to wraps, folded slightly askew, corner chip to front wrap, a few tiny tears along edges. The first separate publication of an interview by the underground..... More
[np]: [No Publisher], [ca. 1960]. An ebony wood letter opener for The Black Star Line, Ghana's national shipping corporation, which is named after Marcus Garvey's shipping line that ran from 1919 to 1922. Ghanian Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was profoundly influenced by Garvey's thought and pan-africanism; his nation lead the..... More
Lockport, NY: Ward and Cobb, 1896. First edition. [vii]-xxx, [31]-485, x, with folding map at front. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine, with light rubbing to cloth at extremities, inner front hinge exposed though binding remains firm. Slight chipping to edges of front free endpaper and..... More
Philadelphia: McGirt Publishing Company, 1907. First edition. 131 pp. w/ illustrations and frontis of the author. Bound in publisher's red cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt. Good+, with foxing and insecting to cloth at front. Former owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper. Contents generally sound and clean with..... More
Los Angeles: Golemics, 1978. First edition. Signed by Nathaniel Mackey on the blank page following the title page, inscribed to former owner. [16] pp. Tall stapled wraps. Very Good with light stain to front wrap, sunning to wraps. Nice shape overall. The National Book Award-winning poet and novelist's first..... More
New York: Methodist Book Concern, 1915. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original olive green cloth stamped in black. Very Good or better with light staining to cloth visible in raking light as well as staining to the bottom corner of the rear cover. Three small areas of abrasion..... More
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1925. First edition. [xii], 180 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated boards. Very Good+ with foxing and rubbing to edges, toning to gutters. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with some trivial creases, a little dust-soiling and rubbing, spine panel a little sunned. An..... More
[Pasadena]: Ammo, 2010. First edition. Signed by Spike Lee on title page in sharpie. 359. Publisher's illustrated boards, no jacket, as issued. Near Fine with slightly bumped corners, small scratch to rear board. A photo chronicle of the director's best-known film, Do the Right Thing from 1989. More