Shiloh Baptist Church, Inc. after 100 Years, 1849-1949
(Cleveland): The Centennial Committee, (1949). Paperback. photos, 37p. Softcover in original wrapper. 31cm. Cover scuffed and rather worn. Minor wrinkling. More
(Cleveland): The Centennial Committee, (1949). Paperback. photos, 37p. Softcover in original wrapper. 31cm. Cover scuffed and rather worn. Minor wrinkling. More
Hampton, Va. Hampton Institute, 1918. Paperback. photos, pp. [209]-256. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Among the contents: "The Negro and Democracy," an address delivered by Monroe N. Work before the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (pages 219-222 with no photos); "The Red Cross at Hampton,"..... More
Greenville County Museum of Art, (c. 1990). Paperback. [Exhibition catalog] illustrations (some color), 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Front free enpaper lightly spotted. Catalog for an exhibition at Greenville County Museum of Art, May 15 through July 1, 1990, and at McKissick Museum September 2 through October 28..... More
n.p., 1944. Paperback. 18p. Softcover in original wrapper.15 cm. George W. Baber was the Presiding Bishop. The Fourth Episcopal District including six conferences: Ontario, Michigan, Northwestern (probably Iowa and Minnesota), Chicago, Illinois and Indiana. The last 5 pages in this report which provide space for entering statistics about an individual..... More
New York: Dial Press, (c. 1978). Benny Andrews. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis and other illustrations (by Benny Andrews), 283p. Hardcover. dj. 23 cm. Jacket has modest soiling and edge-wear on rear panel and adjoining flap. Small flaw at head of front cover joint. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by Raymond..... More
New York: Random House, (c. 1981). 1st ed. Hardcover. 272p. Original cloth backed boards. dj. 21 cm. Jacket slightly darkened. Browned area on front endpaper from a now absent clipping. The fourth of her autobiographical volumes. More
New York: Dial Press, 1974. 1st ed. Hardcover. 197p. Original orange cloth. dj. 20 cm. Previous owners name ("Yvette E. LeRoy June 1974") in red ink on front free endpaper. Someone (probably LeRoy) has written in pencil words from the third stanza of Handy's Beale Street Blues on a blank..... More
Boston: Meador Publishing Company, (c. 1943). 1st ed. Hardcover. 122p. Original green cloth. dj. 20cm. Jacket lightly soiled and has a couple of small edge chips. African American author. Although its status as a novel is dubious (pages 106-121 do contain "A Love Story" which is a religious anti-gambling tale)..... More
Paris: Christian Bourgois, (c. 1969). 1st ed. in French. Hardcover. 94p. Softcover in original wrapper. 20 cm. INSCRIBED on title-page by Bibbs ("To my favorite poet, Gus our new creator, Love, Leroy Paris Nov. 1970"). Minor browning along top of front edge and around a short tear on back cover..... More
New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, (c. 1998). Faith Ringgold. 1st ed. Hardcover. color illustrations, index, 167p. Original cloth-backed boards. 27 cm. More
New York: General Phonograph Corporation, n.d. 10-inch, 78 rpm record. Okeh 4966-A Fox Trot and 4900-B Fox Trot Later Sleeve. Note on sleeve rates this as V+, apparently because of some not very deep scratches (looks like on Side B). We have no record player and don't know how it..... More
Detroit: Agascha Productions, (c. 1973). Presumed first edition. Paperback. 22p. Pink wrapper. 22cm. Light cover soil & spotting. Poetry. A biographical sketch of the author on page 21 says that she shared the foundership and presidency of Agascha Productions with her husband Agadem and that she had a B. A...... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, 1946. 1st ed. Hardcover. 103p. Original cloth. dj. 20 cm. Jacket scuffed and edge-worn. Owen Dodson's bookplate pn front pastedown. Poetry. His first book. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, (c. 1951). 1st ed. Hardcover. 212p. Cloth-backed boards. Partial dj which lacks the front panel and is chipped and worn on backstrip and rear panels. 19 cm. Spine sloped. Backstrip discolorerd at ends. INSCRIBED on front free emdpaper by Dodson ("{For Kermit with the..... More
New York: Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1945. 1st ed. Hardcover. 207, [2]p. Original dark blue cloth. Contemporary but probably not original, plain glassine dj. 23 cm. Jacket chipped and split with some soiling. Backstrip modestly worn and darkened at ends. Gilt title on backstrip still bright and complete. Contents sound and clean..... More
New York: Doubleday, (c. 1999). 1st ed. Hardcover. 258p. Original black boards. dj. 24 cm. The third Mali Anderson mystery series set in Harlem. More
Boston: Meador, 1938. Revised edition. Hardcover. photos, index, 328p. Original green cloth. 20 cm. Cover scuffing and modest spotting. No jacket. Essays and biographical sketches by various African Americans, including *A. Philip Randolph. "The editor believes that our American system of capitalism and our American system of government at their..... More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., (c. 1968). 1st ed. Hardcover. photos, 282p. Original black cloth. dj. 20 cm. More
Berkeley: 1942. Paperback. photo (portrait), 111p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Cover has some ink scribbles and shows modest wear. Contents age-toned but otherwise sound and clean. More
New York: (c. 1954). Paperback. 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Five digit number ("5127480") of unknown purpose stamped in black on front cover. More
1967. Paperback. photos, 326p. Softcover in original wrapper. 20 cm. Minor cover wear amd fading. More
New York: Macmillan, (c. 1967). Symeon Shimin. 1st ed. Hardcover. Illustrations (by Symeon Shimin), 122p. dj. Original cloth. 23 cm. Some light brown spots on front cover. Brown stain in and around entire hinge area on rear endpaper (and just a little in bottom of hinge area on front endpaper..... More
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Lehigh University Press, (c. 2006). 1st ed. frontis, illustrations, index, 330p. Original black boards. dj. 24 cm. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (c. 2004). 1st ed. Hardcover. photo, 179p. Original red boards. dj. 21 cm. INSCRIBED by Rhodes on title-page ("Yvette Alicia Keys"). Yvette Le Roy, the inscribee, was a librarian who lived in Harlem and had owned Liberty House, a bookshop in Harlem between 1969 and..... More