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[Somewhere in Great Britain]: Primus, n.d. [ca. 1910?]. 8 colored glass slides in original card box. Slides 8.1 x 8.1cm. Brief captions in images. Box basically intact but with a fair amount of wear and a couple of strips of old cellophane tape. Contents sound and clean. A colorful racially-stereotyped..... More
Paris: Centre d'etudes afro-americaines; Cambridge: W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African-American Research, [1996]. Paperback. (20) unnumbered pages. Softcover in original marigold-colored wrapper. 22 cm. Text mostly in French. At head of cover title: En Sorbonne 24-27 Avril 1996: Colloque "April in Paris" La Musique Afro-Americanine et l'Europe. More
Los Angeles: Multicultural Arts, Inc.; Hollywood, Fl.: The International Review of African American Art, (c. 1990). Paperback. illustrated ( color and black & white), 61, [3]p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Issue on women artists who matured during and after the 1960s ("African American Women Artsists: Another Generation") --..... More
Austin: Harpoon Publishing Company, 1908. Paperback. 40p. Softcover. No separate wrapper. 30 cm. First leaf chipped along edges and moderately browned on recto. Significant vertical crease. Previous owner's name inked at top margin of front cover. Some penciled math calculations at top of one page. J. S. ("K. Lamity") Bonner..... More
Belmont: American Opinion, (1959). 4th printing. Paperback. (12)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Robert W. Welch's view, not surprisingly, was that Communists were behind the Brown V. Board of Education decision and the modern psychology cited in the decision. More
Dayton: EbonNia Gallery, (c. 2006). Paperback. color photos, 27p. Softcover in original wrapper. Oblong (25 x 19 cm.). More
New York: Pittsburgh Courier, (1949). Paperback. [Souvenir Program] photos, (16) pages (including cover). Softcover. 31 cm. Modest edge-wear. Moderate soiling and some light staining on back cover. Small gift inscription on front cover (From LeRoy & Martha Burks"). Contents sound and clean. Poll winners included Ella Fitzgerald (Female Vocalist) Lionel..... More
New York: The Library of America, (c. 2003). 1st printing. Hardcover. 2 vols. index, xvi, 996, (5), xv, 986, (6)p. Neatly rebound iin full leather by Asprey. 20 cm. All edges gilt. An attractive set. More
Jackson, MI: The Pioneer Gospel Mission, INc., n.d. [ca. 1956]. 3 small photos, Folded four-page publication. 28 cm. Two vertical folds so that this could be mailed as a business-letter-sized self mailer (with one small piece of tape (now just tape marks) used to hold it closed when mailed. Modest..... More
Paperback. Illustration mounted on card. 11 x 16.5cm.; image-size 10 x 14cm. Illustration by "Kash." Small commercial label on back (E. Borhek & Son, Opticians, No. 628 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia). Illustration shows an African American child, in ragged clothing, standing in long grass in front of the stone wall of..... More
Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838. Paperback. 46p. Original green wrapper. 23cm. Minor foxing. Light vertical crease. INSCRIBED by Allen (as "Geo. Allen") on title-page. Cover title: Mr. Allen's Speech Before the Convention of Ministers of Worcester County, Mass. More
![Item #92418 "90 Years ... Making a Difference" November 3, 2012. [cover title]. Alpha Kappa Alpha...](/pictures/thumb/92418.JPG?v=1662585179)
Detroit: Charles H. Wright Museum of Afircan American History, 2012. Paperback. photos, 122p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Celebrates this Alpha Kappa Alpha Graduate Chapter which evolved from Xi Chapter which was established as Xi Chapter in Detroit in 1922. More
Kobenhavn: Steen Hasselbalchs, 1963. Paperback. 117p. Softcover in flapped black wrapper, as published. 21cm. Danish text. Backstrip and adjacent areas faded. Partially unopened. Danish text. Translation of "The Fire Next Time" by Gudrun Vergmann. More
New York: Atheneum, (c. 1964). 1st ed. Black & white photos, (84)p. Original white boards. 36 cm. Slipcase. Backstrip somewhat darkened with minor spotting. Contents almost as new. Slipcase still sound although browned on upper fifth (or so) and moderately soiled. An appealing collaboration between two former schoolmates at New..... More
Richmond: Everett Waddey, 1889. 1st ed. Paperback. ix, 147p. Original rather fragile wrapper. 20cm. Ends of backstrip (and adjacent areas) chipped. A few archival tape repairs. Blair argued that the South would never become truly prosperous as long as African Americans were degraded and made lazy and uncooperative by segregation..... More
Pasadena, Calif. M. S. Sen, (c. 1947). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), 135p. Original green cloth with title on front cover and nothing on backstrip. 23cm. Backstrip somewhat wrinkled. Former owner's name on endpaper.Rust marks on endpapers around hidden staples. No Jacket. 3 newspaper clippings about the author (2 pasted..... More
New York: Parallax Publishing Company, (c. 1967). Mort Drucker and Neal Adams. Paperback. 44 unnumbered pages cartoons. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Moderate cover soil. Short split at top of fold. Small round yellow sticker on top edge of front cover. Internally sound and clean. Illustrated by Mort Drucker..... More
[San Francisco?]: 1946. Paperback. Folded softcover item in original plain envelope (15 x 9cm.). Printed -- red ink on white paper. A club for African American women in and around San Francisco which appears to have been founded in 1929. More
Single long narrow sheet folded to form four pages and then further folded into a stampless letter. 20 x 17 cm. when folded into four pages. Brown ink. Letter written on only one of the four pages with the addressee's name and address written on the adjacent page after folding..... More
[Memphis: 1889]. Hardcover. 192p. Later brown library binding with call number and an abbreviated title inked in white on the backstrip. 22cm. Lacks title leaf and original wrapper. Typed title-page added. Ex lib. (card pocket, perforated stamp on added title-page, date and number stamped on first text page). Contents sound..... More
Chicago: Chicago Public Library Omnibus Project, 1941. Hardcover. index, (6), 49p. Library binding with original front cover mounted. 28 cm. Ex lib. Perforated library stamp on title-leaf and library bookplate (City Library Springfield Massachusetts) inside front cover. Discard stamp on top and bottom page edges. At head of title: Federal..... More
Boston: Meador, (c. 1929). 1st ed. Hardcover. 121p. Original green cloth. dj. 20cm. Jacket has some edge-wear and streaky soiling. The author of this piece of fictionwas thought to be an African American -- authorship being attributed to *Anita Scott Coleman by many. It now seems almost certain that the..... More
n.p. The Committee, (1950). Paperback. 4 items: (1) Slip announcing an emergency meeting for the reinstatement of Dr Lorch. (2) Mimeographed letter from Rotan Lee briefly explaining the case and urging attendance at the meeting. (1)p. 36cm. 4 horizontal creases. (3) List of the Committee members. (1)p. 28cm. 2 horizonal..... More
New York: Henry Harrison, (c. 1938). 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), 78p. Green cloth. dj. 21cm. Jacket moderately worn with some chipping, fading and waterspotting. 21cm. INSCRIBED to J. Max Bond by Cotter (in a shaky hand on the front pastedown). Signed copies of his books are uncommon. More
New York and London: Harper & Borthers Pub. 1929. 1st trade ed. [a limited ed. was also published]. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 110p. Original cloth-backed blue boards. 19cm. No jacket. Title labels oxidized and unreadable. Ends of backstrip and corners rubbed. Some cover spotting, mostly on back cover. Bookplate of Ray..... More
