Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1967. First edition, stated first printing. Bound in publisher's printed wraps. Near Fine with light creases to spine, light wear and light soiling to wraps and heavy toning to pages as expected, but on the whole a very bright and sharp example. The best-known account of..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First edition, first printing. Signed by John A. Lomax with a lengthy inscription to a previous owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's coarse ochre cloth stamped in red. Near Fine with bottom corner bumped, non-authorial former owner gift inscription to half-title page..... More
San Francisco: Women's Co-operative Printing Office, 1881. First edition, first printing of the second cookbook published in America by an African-American woman and the third to be published by any African-American. Preceded only by the extremely rare A Domestic Cook Book by Mrs. Malinda Russell in 1866. Bound in publisher's..... More
Santa Cruz: Boneset, 1983. First edition. Signed by Nathaniel Mackey on the title page, inscribed to poet Tom Orange. Staplebound wraps. Near Fine with sunning along spine, very slight bump to corners. The award-winning poet's rare second chapbook. Includes eight poems. More
Nyack, NY: The Fellowship of Reconciliation, [1957]. First edition. (One of a reported 250,000 copies in the first and only printing of the first edition. Not one of the reprints with the orangish paper tone printed on the page in a dot matrix.) [16] pp. Bound in publisher's copper staples..... More
New York: Random House, 1952. First edition, stated first printing. Bound in publisher's two-toned black and beige cloth stamped in white and gray. Very Good with slight musty odor to pages, light rubbing to white stamping on spine, textblock edge spotted and a short tear to the bottom edge of..... More
Concord, CA: Nitty Gritty Books, 1969. First edition. [xii], 210, [1] pp. Publisher's wraps. Good+ with wear along edges, creased spine, slight curling to wraps, dampstain to bottom corner of last few pages. An uncommon soul food cookbook mentioned in Toni Tipton-Martin's The Jemima Code. More
New York: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with a large but faint stain to the front cover visible in raking light, light fading to spine and light wear to cloth..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1957. Signed by Gunnar Myrdal on half title. lix, [1], 1483 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. Later printing of the single volume edition first published in 1944. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket, lightly worn and soiled, price-clipped..... More
New York: The Hecla Press, 1964. First edition, suppressed first printing. 16 pp. (rather than 22 in the standard edition). 6 1/8" by 9 1/4". Stapled self-wrappers. Very Good with vertical crease throughout entirety, faint toning to left bottom corner of front wrap, paperclip impression and few tiny rust spots..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by Octavia E. Butler on the title page and inscribed to former owners. Bound in publisher's brown paper-covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with wear to rear cover, two diagonal creases to..... More
[no place]: Esso, 1934. 32 pp. Publisher's stapled wraps. Very Good, some spots of biopredation to front wrap,slight crease to bottom corner of front wrap, rubbing, contents toned with age. An advertising pamphlet relying upon African American culinary traditions, and prominently featuring a color tinted photograph of two "Aunts" in..... More
Washington, D.C. Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936. First edition. Signed by Alain Locke on the foreword, dated 1937. [vi], 122 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wrappers. Very Good, wraps a little stained and toned, light foxing along edges, wear at foot. Called the “philosophical architect” and “ideological genius” of..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First edition, first printing. xii, 146 pp. Bound in publisher's dark grey boards with black cloth backstrip, stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with subtle bowing to boards, foxing to boards, in a Good dust jacket, rubbed, price-clipped, closed tear in front panel mended with..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1923. First edition, first printing of the classic Harlem Renaissance novel. Extremely rare, signed by Jean Toomer and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper, "To Fay De Frantz with warm regards for one who feels so warmly about this book and..... More
New York: ESP-Disk, 1966. Signed by Sun Ra on the front sleeve on the right side margin in blue ink, inscribed "To Dana, Dawn and Jodi from Sun Ra." Original pressing with "156 Fifth Avenue" address on the back cover. ESP-DISK 1017 Stereo LP. Fair album, with deep scratches to..... More
Brooklyn, NY: Kingston Imperial, 2021. First edition. Signed by T-Pain on the title page. 139, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's leatherette with gilt lettering, rear cover label. Fine. A book of cocktails by singer/rapper T-Pain (stage name of Faheem Rasheed Najm), who had series of hits and was featured on..... More
New York: Mahlon Day, 1837. Second edition. [2], 257-260, [3]-253 pp. (index, i.e. pages 257-260 bound following title page). Bound in publisher's diapered reddish purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. A completely unsophisticated copy in wonderful shape for an American imprint of its age. Tight binding. Stain to front board..... More