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A Time to Listen . . . A Time to Act: Voices from the Ghettos of the Nation's Cities [A Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights - 1967]

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Washington, D.C., U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: 1967

Seller ID: 021685

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: VG+

Light orange illus. wraps, perfect-bound. Light shelf/handling wear. vii,133 pp.
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African American Artists of the Harlem Renaissance Period and later . . .

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Sacks Fine Art, Inc.: 1991

Seller ID: 042648

ISBN: B01HU357RK

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Booklet, stiff color illus. wraps. [20] pp., illus. w/ 27 b&w plates. Slight handling wear, nearly as issued. Scarce.
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now [SIGNED]

By: Angelou, Maya

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1993

Seller ID: 049449

ISBN: 0679427430

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

SIGNED. Burgundy 1/4 cloth, red paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. New/as issued, in dust jacket now in mylar. xiii,141 pp. Book plate signed by Angelou laid in, printed with a quote from the author and inscribed simply "Joy!"
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Afro-American Poetics: Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic

By: Baker, Houston A.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Madison, WI, University of Wisconsin Press: 1996

Seller ID: 021976

ISBN: 0299115046

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

x,201 pp., illus. As issued.
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The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader

By: Baraka, Amiri [LeRoi Jones]; William J. Harris (editor)

Price: $6.50

Publisher: New York, Thunder's Mouth Press: 1991

Seller ID: 040604

ISBN: 1560250070

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Stiff pictorial wraps. Stated 1st ptg. xxxiii,500 pp. Mild shelf wear, surface laminate peeling along front cover fore-edge, several light stress creases along firm binding. Text block edges somewhat toned by age. Interior clean and unmarked.
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The Negro Vanguard

By: Bardolph, Richard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage/Random House: 1959

Seller ID: 021673

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Modest shelf wear, covers a bit rubbed. Former owner signature on half-title. Firm binding, slightly bowed. ix,495,xvi pp. Scattered internal underlining, generally unobtrusive.
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Slaves and Serfs in the Post-Emancipation Imagination, 1861-1915 [ProQuest Number 10119924]

By: Bellows, Amanda Brickell

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, MI, ProQuest: 2016

Seller ID: 046123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Black buckram, spine panel lettered in gold foil. As issued. ProQuest Number 10119924. Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2016. xiii,349 pp.
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston [INSCRIBED]

By: Boyd, Valerie

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Scribner: 2002

Seller ID: 049505

ISBN: 0684842300

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

INSCRIBED. Black and yellow paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. As issued, dust jacket now in mylar. 528 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. 1st ptg., complete number line. Inscribed by author on lower main title, full signature, personalized and with inscription "May your life always / remain wrapped in rainbows," dated 1 Mar. 2004.
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Let It Burn: MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City [INSCRIBED]

By: Boyette, Michael; Boyette, Randi

Price: $20.00

Publisher: San Diego, CA, Quadrant Books/Endpapers Press: 2013

Seller ID: 037328

ISBN: 193786832X

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Stiff pictorial wraps. As issued. 363 pp. Signed by both authors on main title, full signatures, personalized and with inscription. Scarce signed copy.
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The Negro in Maryland: A Study of the Institution of Slavery [Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science - Extra Volume VI]

By: Brackett, Jeffrey R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Negro Universities Press: 1969

Seller ID: 032115

ISBN: 0837115493

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Both flyleaves attached to pastedowns, with slight glue (?) staining along hinges preceding main title, otherwise essentially as issued. Facsimile reprint of original 1889 edition. 268 pp.
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Its Origin and Development

By: Brazeal, Brailsford R.; Leo Wolman (fwd.)

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York and London, Harper and Brothers: 1946

Seller ID: 032291

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Black cloth, lettered in gilt. Light shelf wear, gilt spine lettering mostly rubbed away. Signature/date of former owner, labor historian Herbert R. Northrup, on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked. xiv,258 pp. Illus. dust jacket shows loss of approx. top 1 1/2" of spine panel, with separation along lower spine panel joints, 1" closed tear with minor loss at top rear corner and thin triangular sliver of loss along top rear edge, minor chipping of corners, still presents reasonably well in archival mylar with bright front panel showing minor wear. No statement as to edition, sugges...
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Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksongs from Texas Prisons

By: Bruce Jackson

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press: 1972

Seller ID: 044615

ISBN: 0674945476

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Near Fine

Stiff pictorial wraps. Light shelf wear, top corner slightly bumped. Square, uncreased binding, clean interior. xxii,326 pp. Nicely preserved copy. 2nd ptg.
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The Precambrian Geology of the Reading 15' Quadrangle [Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Fourth Series, Progress Report 161] - with map and envelope

By: Buckwalter, Tracy V.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, PA, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Internal Affairs, Topographic and Geologic Survey: 1962

Seller ID: 025822

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Booklet, tan wraps, lettered in black. [ii],ii,49 pp. Accompanied by large color folding map, housed in manila envelope original to issue. Booklet "as new," slight handling to map and envelope.
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The Precambrian Geology of the Reading 15' Quadrangle [Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Fourth Series, Progress Report 161] - with map and envelope

By: Buckwalter, Tracy V.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Harrisburg, PA, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Internal Affairs, Topographic and Geologic Survey: 1962

Seller ID: 038268

Binding: Original Wraps

Condition: Fine

Booklet, tan wraps, lettered in black. [ii],ii,49 pp. Accompanied by large color folding map, housed in manila envelope original to issue. Booklet as issued; map with light toning to edges, envelope with slight handling wear.
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Erma: A Black Woman Remembers: 1912-1980 [SIGNED]

By: Calderon, Erma, with Leonard Ray Teel

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1981

Seller ID: 021635

ISBN: 0394517431

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Dark plum 1/4 cloth, salmon paper covered boards, lettered in bronze foil. Slight shelf wear, nearly as issued. Stamped price on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. xix,200 pp. Dust jacket shows light shelf/edge wear, now in archival mylar. Signed by author along top edge of front flyleaf. Relatively scarce signed copy.
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Black Workers and the New Unions

By: Cayton, Horace R., and George S. Mitchell

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press: 1939

Seller ID: 027624

Binding: Buckram

Condition: Very Good

Light brown buckram, lettered in gilt. Light shelf wear, spine lettering dulled by age, text block edges somewhat age-toned with mild dampstaining to bottom text block corner, not extending to interior. Firm binding, clean interior. xviii,473 pp. From the library of noted economist and labor historian Herbert R. Northrup, obtained directly from his Estate, with his signature (from his college days at Harvard, 1941) on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked.
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The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales

By: Chesnutt, Charles W.; Richard H. Brodhead (editor, intro.)

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Durham, NC, Duke University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 032952

ISBN: 0822313871

Binding: Softcover

Condition: VG+

Stiff color illus. wraps. Presents externally with only slight shelf wear. Square, uncreased binding. [v],208 pp., illus. A few scattered annotations internally.
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De Namin' ob de Twins and Other Sketches from the Cotton Land

By: Childs, Mary Fairfax

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, B. W. Dodge and Co.: 1908

Seller ID: 045574

ISBN: B000I82JXK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VG+

Ribbed gray cloth, lettered and illus. in black, white and gilt, deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Former owner's signature in pencil on front flyleaf. 139 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Told in African-American dialect.
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Frederic Bancroft, Historian

By: Cooke, Jacob E.; Allan Nevins (intro.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press: 1957

Seller ID: 021690

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth, lettered in silver foil. Ex-library, typically marked/stamped, but little actual wear. Solid reading/reference copy. xiii,282 pp.
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The Black Cat Club: Negro Humor and Folk-Lore

By: Corrothers, James D.

Price: $69.95

Publisher: New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls: 1902

Seller ID: 011385

ISBN: B000L26XS0

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Very Good

1st edition: March 1902. Red cloth, blind-decorated, lettered in gilt on spine panel. 264 pp., illus. throughout in borders and margins with whimsical drawings depicting the misadventures of a black cat. Minor shelf wear, slight rub to one top spine corner. Fore-edges of both boards show several areas each of minor loss to cloth, more a cosmetic distraction than a major flaw. Boards are clean and bright, otherwise a solid Near Fine with an exceptionally clean and bright interior. Scarce.
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The Black Cat Club: Negro Humor and Folk-Lore

By: Corrothers, James D.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls: 1902

Seller ID: 046905

ISBN: B000L26XS0

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: VG-

1st edition: March 1902. Red cloth, blind-decorated, lettered in gilt on spine panel. 264 pp., illus. throughout in borders and margins with whimsical drawings depicting the misadventures of a black cat. Cloth is moderately soiled, with spine panel somewhat sunned; minor binding lean. Lacking front flyleaf, interior otherwise intact, binding firm.
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Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership

By: Cox, LaWanda

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press: 1982

Seller ID: 046918

ISBN: 0872494004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Gray cloth, spine panel lettered in gold foil. As issued, with note that text block is bound in upside-down. Dust jacket as issued. xiii,254 pp.
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Burn, Killer, Burn!

By: Crump, Paul

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Johnson Publishing Co.: 1962

Seller ID: 042489

ISBN: 1135246793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dark red cloth, lettered in black. Text block edges slightly foxed and soiled, otherwise as issued, a notably well preserved copy. [vii],391 pp. Pictorial dust jacket mildly rubbed along joints, light surface rubbing and a minor chipping at top corners, now in mylar.
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Reconstruction in Retrospect: Views from the Turn of the Century

By: Current, Richard N. (editor)

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press: 1969

Seller ID: 021676

ISBN: 0807108502

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Yellow-green cloth, with dark green title panel on spine. Slight shelf wear, former owner's signature in pencil on front flyleaf, virtually as issued. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, small hole along lower front flap fold, now in archival mylar. xxiii,165 pp.
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In Freedom's Birthplace [The American Negro: His History and Literature]

By: Daniels, John; Lorenzo J. Greene (fwd.)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Arno Press/New York Times: 1969

Seller ID: 032123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Black and white cloth-effect paper covered boards. Slight shelf wear, former owner's signature on front flyleaf. ix,xiii,496 pp.
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Category: African-American Studies