London: The Women's Press, 1986. First British hardcover edition. Signed by Alice Walker on the page following the front free endpaper [vi], 245, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver spine lettering. Fine, with pages a bit age-toned, in Fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed. More
Zurich, Switzerland: Edition Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, 1985. First edition. Signed by Jean-Michel Basquiat in blue ink on verso of title page, copy #984 in the limitation of 1000. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gray spine lettering. Very Near Fine with hint of foxing to paste downs, slightly musty, in..... More
Chicago: Published by the Author, 1911. First edition of one of the first cookbooks published by an African American author. 142 pp. Bound in publisher's original white pebbled cloth stamped in black. Good with wear at the extremities, foot of spine heavily worn. Soiling. Price in marker to front free..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Claude McKay and inscribed to a former owner in the year of publication on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original patterned red and blue paper over black cloth spine titled in red; lacking the dust jacket..... More
New York: Avon, 1973. First edition. 284, [4] pp. Bound in illustrated wraps, red edges. Near Fine, uncreased spine, light shelf wear. A paperback original that went through a single printing. One of the high spots of political cynicism in the Watergate era was this long out-of-print memoir by..... More
London: Victor Gollancz LTD., 1954. Advance uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Bound in publisher's drab wraps with typed paper title label adhered to upper wrap with "uncorrected" rubber-stamped to front wrap and title page. Larry McMurtry's copy with his bookplate to the verso of the front cover. Near..... More
Boston: Published for the Author [by Thayer & Eldridge], 1861. First edition. 306 pp. Bound in recent three-quarters leather over marbled boards. Very Good, page 96/97 lacking and provided in facsimile, several leaves either remargined or repaired at the gutter. Soiling, staining, creases and wear to contents throughout, contemporary former..... More
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1963. First edition, first printing. Signed by C.L.R. James on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with spine stamped in gilt and white. Near fine with slight splaying to boards, light soiling. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunning..... More
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. First edition. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over buckram spine cloth lettered in blue. Very Good with with rubbing to boards especially at edges, two indentations to rear cover at spine and a light crease the rear board at the top..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First edition, first printing. [vi], 569 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine and unread in a bright, attractive dust jacket, scratch to rear panel, else Fine. A novel of Black life in Harlem centering on a Single..... More
Cambridge, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1957. First edition. [viii], 266 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with red and white spine lettering. Near Fine, slightly over-opened front hinge, very faint stain to bottom edge, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with no fading, rubbed and a little worn along..... More
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990. First edition. Signed by Thomas Sowell on the front free endpaper; an association copy inscribed to conservative affirmative action critic Lino Graglia, "Who has fought the good fight on this and other issues." 221 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth and boardswith gilt..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Toni Morrison on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's orange cloth stamped in gilt. Binder's error leaving front free endpapers uncut from front paste downs, otherwise a Near Fine copy with light lean to the binding and..... More
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934. First edition. 296 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with purple spine label, gilt spine lettering, blindstamped front, black topstain. Near Fine with dulling to spine lettering, light wear, in the rare pictorial dust jacket, chipped along top edge, smaller chip at foot, a...... More
New York & Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1970. First edition. [x], 245 pp. Bound in publisher's red boards with black cloth backstrip with white and red spine lettering. Very Good with slight bump to textblock upper corner, remainder stamp to bottom edge, in an unclipped dust jacket with scratching..... More
Printed at the Joint Expence of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Societies instituted for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Edinburgh, 1791. Rare first Edinburgh edition, published same year as the London edition, of eye-witness testimony on the horrors of the British slave trade, containing a very early engraving of the..... More
Compton, CA: Public Information Communications Association, 1962. Original pressing in red vinyl with Pica labels. DTL-831. About Very Good record with light wear and some surface srctahcing, label darkened, in a Good sleeve, some staining and wear to bottom of front and back, text effaced MLK's speech at a civil..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. A signed review copy. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Toni Morrison on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. A review copy with publisher's slip and advertising broadside laid in. Bound in publisher's original black cloth binding with titles stamped..... More
[no place]: The Pullman Company, 1952. First edition. Brad-bound printed sheets in black leatherette covers stamped in silver. Very Good with wear to silver stamping, light staining to textblock edges, pages tanned and a child's crayon scribbles to the final blank leaf. A rare guidebook produced for the largely African-American..... More
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Freedom Pennant, 1963. Original felt pennant from the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. White felt printed in red and blue measuring 11.5" x 26.25 with a 36" dowel. Very Good with soiling, browning, foxing and light creases. A historic event in the battle for civil rights, an estimated 250,000..... More
London: W. Tweedie, 1862. First British edition, first printing of the scarce feminist narrative of escape from slavery, and the first published slave narrative by a woman. 306 pp. In a recent half faux-leather over marbled boards, new endpapers. Very Good+. Former owner bookplate and penciled "[Linda M. Brent]" to..... More