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Cary, North Carolina: Oxford University Press. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 2002. First Printing. Hard Cover. 203 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 1.6: KB#006570: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Printing Number Line (1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Dustjacket has small edge cut. "Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the Gospel teachings of brotherhood and charity? Slaves were considered the sexual property of their owners: what was the status within the Church of enslaved women and young male slaves who were their owners' sexual playthings? Is there any reason to believe that Christians shied away from the use of corporal punishments so common among ancient slave owners? Jennifer A. Glancy brings…
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London UK, Oxford University Press, 1963, hardcover, xii-151 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Clean and firmly bound, slight spine-end and corner wear, lean to spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, wear to folds and head and heel of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. An historical and social study of the Creole society of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Illustrated with 4 black-&-white plates and 6 maps including a fold-out map of Sierra Leone showing Ethnic Boundaries. Appended; Handbill recruiting the black poor, Bibliography, Index.
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New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001. SIGNED on dedication page: "Thank you! / Brian Broome". This debut memoir is a NYT Editor's Pick and the winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. "In his thoroughly electric debut...Brian Broome will shatter your heart. Then make you laugh, sweat and cringe. And-all while eviscerating stereotypes and expanding notions of Black masculinity and queer identity-he'll shatter your heart again, then carefully, exquisitely, piece it back together."-Shelf Awareness Review. 9780358439103. New in like dust jacket w/ "signed by the author", in protective cover.
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Here are Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, and Fred Hampton; Kathleen Cleaver and other Panther women; the party's court battles and acquittals; its positions on black separatism, the power structure, the police, violence, and education; as well as songs, poems, and political cartoons. This is the story behind the Black Panthers.
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Harare, Zimbabwe, The College Press, 1991, trade paperback, 170 pp, First thus, published under license from The Women's Press, London, Very Good condition, no dustjacket as issued. Association copy, Signed and inscribed by the Author "Marie, this from Gloria & me with love. Ama Ata Aidoo-Nsukka '92" to Dr. Marie Gadsden an esteemed educator who devoted her life to improving international ties between the U.S. and Africa and to strengthening international programs at U.S. Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Straight, tight and clean with no other markings, slight wear to edges and corners, light rubbing. Tipped in is a typed signed letter from Gloria J. Braxton, Director of the Center for International Programs, Southern University to Dr. Gadsden thanking her for her suggestions on the current HBCU brochure, recalling a past meeting at the NAFEO conference in Washington DC, and touching on their shared interest in Aidoo's work, Aidoo's plans to teach at Hamilton College in Clinton NY the…
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Sounder: Author's First Childrens Book
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by Johnson, George, et al. (eds.), Edward Berry, Jon Eckels, Bill Lowe, Booker Emery, Joe Brantley, Huey P. Newton (about), et al
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Oakland, CA: Change!, ca. 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 16pp (stapled self-cover). An exceptionally well-preserved copy of a Civil Rights themed publication from late 1967 (or early 1968), published in association with the Unitarian Universalist Project East Bay in Oakland and Emeryville. Includes a short piece urging readers to "Support the Huey P. Newton Defense Fund" as well as writing by adults and children intended to inform a suburban audience about conditions in the inner city.
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 184pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Revealing and disturbing study of the racist ideas and fantasies of southern whites after the Civil War.
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Santa Cruz, CA: Hambone, 2009. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, [viii]+280pp, printed wrappers. Scarce nineteenth issue of this cultural magazine edited by Nathaniel Mackey. Includes "Black Man in the Cosmos," an annotated 17-page transcription of a spring 1971 lecture by Sun Ra. Unmarked copy (from the collection of contributor Leslie Scalapino), just about as new.
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Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill now first printed from the MS. With notes by Paget Toynbee
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London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for Constable and Co. and Houghton Mifflin, 1923. First edition. One of a total edition of 650 copies. 4to. Quarter calf and boards. Spine a bit scuffed, Small chip from foot, boards a little soiled. First edition. One of a total edition of 650 copies. 4to.
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Journal of the Printing-Office at Strawberry Hill
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1923. WALPOLE, Horace. Journal of the Printing-Office at Strawberry Hill. Now First Printed from the MS. With Notes by Paget Toynbee. Orig. calf-backed boards, black morocco spine label. [London:] Printed at The Chiswick Press for Constable and Company and Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 1st ed. 4to. First edition. One of 650 copies. Small bump to foot of front board, small bookplate, else near fine.
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London, Constable and Company, 1923., 1923. 4to. 12 photo gravures and facsimiles. Original 1/2 tan claf over tan boards, spine with gilt stamped black leather label, uncut. Plain paper dust jacket. Publisher's board slipcase; printed spine label. Fine, fresh copy. No foxing, signatures or bookplates.. Hardcover.
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[London]: printed at the Chiswick Press for Constable and Co. and Houghton Mifflin, 1923. First edition limited to 650 copies, 8vo, pp. xii, 150; frontis portrait, engraved vignette title-p., and 11 heliotypes and photogravures throughout; very fine copy in orig. calf-backed boards; the publisher's slipcase is broken. The day by day journal of the press, with extensive appendixes, index, and notes.
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[London]: printed at the Chiswick Press for Constable and Co. and Houghton Mifflin, 1923. First edition limited to 650 copies, 8vo, xii & 150pp., frontis portrait, engraved vignette title-p., and 11 heliotypes and photogravures throughout; very fine copy in orig. calf-backed boards; the publisher's slipcase is worn, with cracks. The day by day journal of the press, with extensive appendixes, index, and notes.
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Journal of the Printing-Office at Strawberry Hill. Now first printed from the MS. of Horace Walpole. With notes by Paget Toynbee
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[London:] Printed at The Chiswick Press for Constable and Company and Houghton Mifflin, 1923 Deluxe edition, limited to 650 copies. Original tan calf with gilt black morocco label. . Quarto. Photogravure frontispiece, and eleven other plates in heliotype or photogravure, including tipped in facsimile plates. Spine a trifle faded, but a very good, clean copy.
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Journal of the Printing-Office At Strawberry Hill. Now First Printed from the MS
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London, England: Constable & Co. Ltd. 1923. Hardcover. Good, boards tanned, calf spine somewhat soiled; Bookplate of Estelle Doheny on front pastedown. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Some pages uncut; Ltd to 650 Copies; Calf backed boards; 4to; No DJ .
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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"Malungu, Ngoma vem!" África encoberta e descoberta no Brasil (Cadernos do Museu da Escravatura No.1)
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Rare! Luanda: Angola. Ministério da Cultura, 1995. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Pages and cover securely held by one clean staple. Interior pristine. Covers clean and crisp, with slight reading wear to foreedge. Many B&W photos/illustrations. 24 pages. Not from a library. Published by the Angolan National Museum of Slavery and National Institute of Cultural Patrimony on the 20th anniversary of Angola's independence.
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Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun ( Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man)". 264 pages.. Solid. Clean. Flyleaf detached from title page, but all pages still bound. A great collector's item and a rare find. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A.B. Walker. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction.
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The Temple Of My Familiar
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Alice Walker. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR. Copyright 1989 by Alice Walker. Thorndyke, Maine. Hardcover, ISBN 9780896219298. Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1990. USED. VG CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Large print. 595 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ¾.
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Gone With The Wind
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MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."
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Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968
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As new except for tiny spot on side exterior page edges and light surface scratching on the back cover. 255 pages. 8.5" X 11" X .5" (22cm X 28cm X 1.3cm) History of Harlem as cultural center. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photos of people and cultural ephemera like playbills, tickets to the Cotton Club, and advertising banners about the importance of Black Santa. Part of a project with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Nonfiction. History. Photography. African American History. Regional History- New York.
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Black Ladies
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Book cover like new - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.Jacket like new, slight shelf wear.
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Robeson, Labor's Forgotten Champion
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Dick Gregory's Bible Tales, with Commentary
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187 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards and faux signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. Edited by James R McGraw. First edition. Richard "Dick" Gregory was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, motivational speaker, author and actor. He became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences. Condition: Lightly soiled. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped else better than very good in like jacket.
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The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X
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T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.
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