Powerful Long Ladder
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, 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: Popular Library, (c. 1951). 1st paper ed. Paperback. 143p. Softcover in original wrapper. 18 cm. Corner chipped on last dozen leaves with minor loss of text. Stain in top margin (more extensive on first interior page (which contains quotes from some book reviews). Browned. Owen Dodson's bookplate inside..... 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
Missoula, Montana: Ulysses Doss, n.d. [1976 or 1977]. [1st ed.]. Paperback. text and illustrations printed on one side of 139 numbered leaves. 139p. Stapled softcover with gold-colored front and back covers. 28 cm. Our suggested date comes from another copy, no sold, which had an inscription dated 1977 as well..... More
New York: Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1945. 1st ed. Hardcover. 207, [2]p. Original dark blue cloth. 23cm. Spine sloped Ex lib. Bookplate (Library Office of Education, Federal Security Agency on front pastedown; "LC' duplicate stamp on front free endpaper and on copyright page; small library stamp embossed on title-leaf). Spine moderately sloped..... 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
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 434p. Grey cloth. Silver lettering. 21 cm. Just a few bits of wear at ends of backstrip and at tips or outer corners/ No jacket. An attractive copy of his first novel. More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (c. 1971). 1st ed. Hardcover. index, 384p. Original cloth backed boards. dj. 21 cm. Bookplate ("Community Church of New York Library Gift of Anna and Thomas O. Johnson") mounted on front pastedown. A Community Church library label is firmly affixed toward base of backstrip on both jacket and..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company; London: Thornton Butterworth, (c. 1915 but this copy was probably published in 1932 or so, based on other titles listed on jacket). Unidentified later printing. Hardcover. maps, index, 254p. dj. 16 cm. Original blue cloth. Backstrip slightly faded. Jacket has minor edge-wear. Former owner's..... More
New York: Random House, (c. 1971). 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 vols. index, xi, 576, x, 815p. Original black cloth. 24cm. Card slipcase. Backstrips somewhat faded. No jacket (as published). Slipcase scuffed and has some wear but is still sturdy and sound. Edited (and with a lengthy Introduction) by Julius Lester..... More
New York: Atria Books, (c. 2005). 1st ed. Hardcover. 484p. Original boards. dj. 23 cm. SIGNED. More
New York: HarperCollins, (c. 1997). Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 346p. Original black boards. dj. 21 cm. Unpriced jacket scuffed and has some edge-wear, especially at ends of backstrip. Text moderately browned. No number line on copyright page. SIGNED by author on title-page ("Tananarive Due"). Supernatural novel. More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1901. 2nd State (title in green on title-page). Hardcover. frontis (portrait), decorative cover & page borders (by Margaret Armstrong), photos (by the Hampton Institute Camera Club), 127p. Green cloth. Partially gilt cover decorations. 22cm. Heavily browned along gutter of first three leaves (probably from old, now..... More
New York: Negro University Press, (1969). Reprint of the 1904 edition. Hardcover. frontis & illustrations (by E. W. Kemble), 309p. Original brown cloth. 22 cm. A few spots on top edge of pages. No jacket (as published). Sixteen short stories. Reprint of a book first published in 1904 by Dodd..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1900. 1st ed. Hardcover. 200p. Original green cloth. 18 cm. White lettering (publisher's name) chipped off at base of backstrip and partially chipped off front cover lettering. Spine moderately sloped. Minor cover cpotting. Corners creased on a couple of leaves. No Jacket. The second of Dunbar's..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1905. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, photos (by Leigh Richmond Miner), (117)p. Original decorative brown cover with photo mounted on front cover. dj. 22 cm. Jacket rather heavily chipped around edges and on backstrip (which lacks a large portion at top and a small piece at bottom)..... More
Cincinnati: The John Church Company, (c. 1911). 1st ed.[?]. Paperback. modest rectangular image on first page, 7p. plus publisher's adverts on final page. 31 cm. Coleridge-Taylor met when Dunbar when the poet was in London in 1897. Dunbar allowed Coleridge-Taylor to set some of his poems to music and Coleridge's..... More
New York: Jos. W. Stern, c. 1900. Paperback. cover illustration, photo (portrait), musical scores (some in adverts), [8] pages including wrapper. Second and seventh pages blank. This piece on pages number 3-5. Sixth and last pages have excepts from other pieces of music. Moderately worn front cover (some chipping --..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1938. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, xvii, 258p. Original blue cloth. dj. 20 cm. Jacket has modest edge-wear, heaviest at ends of backstrip, as well as a small brown spot and some soiling on back panel. Endpapers unevenly browned. Edited by Benjamin Brawley, who selected 20 short..... 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
n.p. n.d. [ca. 1965]. Two unnumbered leaves printed on one side. Mimeo. Purple ink. Not bound or stapled. Prepared for the Fourteenth Annual Republican Women's Conference Workshop on "The Republican Party and the Negro Vote." Jenkins, an African American born in Butte, Montana, wrote this, probably around 1965, while serving..... More
New York: Random House, (c. 1999). 1st ed. Hardcover. xxiii, 368p. Original green boards backed in black. dj. 24 cm. Edited by John F. Callahan, literary executor of Ralph Ellison's estate. An effort to cobble together a novel out of unpublished materials. More
New York: G. Ricordi & Co., (c. 1914). 3-6p. Sheet Music. Image of an attractive woman on front cover. 35cm. An instrumental piece -- no words. Statement under title: Listed by Victor Talking Machine Co. as Castles Lame Duck Waltz. Handsome copy of this piece of sheet music by an..... More
Lancaster, S.C. n.d. (ca. 1975). Paperback. illustrations, 76p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. SIGNED on title-page in 1975 by Evans. ("4-27-75 To a friend Rev. C. N. Evans of Lancaster, S., C."). Pages 48-76 contain poems by Evans. Rosetta Griffin appears to have been his daughter. 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