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New York:: Kensington,, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. Covers Christmas, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, New Year's, Mardi Gras as well as birthdays and family get-togethers, with contributions of memories or recipes from more than 50 African-American women, including Myrna Williams, Patricia Russell McCloud, Mrs. Denzel Washington, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Synthia Saint James and many others. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs. List of resources, bibliography and index. Square format. 244 pp.

Freeport, NY:: Books for Libraries,, 1972.. Hardcover -. Fine in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine.. Facsimile reprint edition. A title in The Black Heritage Library Collection, of a work originally published in 1905. In his preface Merrill, a white minister, states that he sought to show "the real purpose of educated negroes, just as I have seen it carried out, in their efforts to adjust themselves to their new surroundings. My Negro characters are taken from lowly cabin homes, educated in good schools, and become influential agencies among their people." Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and three internal plates. 331 pp.

New York:: Hanover Square Press,, (2019). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) "The extraordinary story of the first African American military pilot in World War I, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer." Bullard, the son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, fled home as a young boy to escape the racial hostility of his Georgia community, determined to get to France. He garnered fame as a boxer, but when war broke out he joined the French Foreign Legion. 324 pp plus author's note and bibliography.

New York:: Pantheon,, (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of speeches, essays and reviews on topics ranging from the US constitution to jazz and American and African American literature. Index. xvii, 267 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.

New York:: Pantheon,, (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket.. First printing. The author's third book, a collection of essays on race, sex, politics, art, jazz and blues, history and also Duke Ellington, Albert Murray, John Ford and films, and Ralph Ellison. Index. viii, 321 pp.

Fayetteville: : The University of Arkansas Press,, 1991.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page, and dated in the year of publication ('To Deedee, with best wishes and thanks for your contribution to a wonderful event.') A study based on the lives of the women in her own family - neither black nor white, affluent nor impoverished, enslaved nor truly free, they lived and died in a shadowy realm. Photographs, charts, extensive notes and references, index. 268 pp.

New York:: Harper Collins,, (1996). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. Includes some rather provocative questions - for example, "why were the 1890s to the 1910s called the 'black women's era'? " and "did blacks participate in the minstrel traditions?" - and substantial thoughtful answers. List of resources at the end of each section, index. xvii, 446 pp.

Salt Lake City:: Brigham University Press,, 1978.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (some rubbing to dj.). First printing. Photographs, bibliography, index. 304 pgs.

Chicago:: Path Press, Inc., 1987.. Hardcover first edition -. NF/NF.. First printing. Although this book includes a brief history of the African American press from its' start in 1827, much of the material is based on the author's long career in journalism. Introduction by St. Clair Drake. 520 pgs, index.

Chicago:: University of Chicago Press,, (1946.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good+ in blue cloth, no dust jacket.. First printing. The autobiography of a young African American girl growing up in North Dakota after her family moved there in 1914. 300 pp.

Garden City, New York:: Doubleday,, (c. 1968.). Hardcover -. Good only in a good dustjacket (some damage to upper end of spine of book, dj is missing approx 2 inches from spine, otherwise a tight and clean copy. ). Hardcover. A state-by-state listing of significant sites in African American history. Preface by Massachusetts Senator Edward W. Brooke. ndex. xiv, 247 pages.

New York:: Norton,, (1998.). Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 2nd printing. A look at the history of 350 years and the underpinnings of our ongoing lack of equality and opportunity in the workplace. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. 543 pp.

London:: Oxford University Press,, 1957.. F/NF (pc). Reprint. The publication of three lectures on apartheid, its original purpose and moral foolishness.

New York:: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd,, (1979). Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dj. (price-clipped). First printing. Biography of this civil rights activist, clergyman, legislator, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Photographs, index. 192 pp.

Baton Rouge:: Louisiana State University Press,, 1976.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, some rubbing to the dj.). First printing. A detailed and well-researched study of this important, but neglected, 1930s free speech case: Herndon, a young black communist party organizer, "articulate & politically astute", was charged with violating a 1869 Georgia insurrection statute. In 1937, after a 5 year legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the statute unconstitutional. Photographs, bibliography, index. 234 pp.

New York:: Lancer Books,, n.d. [1962.]. First edition -. Good condition overall - underlining on several pages in one essay, prev owner's name, light crease to back cover, straight spine, usual toning to the pages.. Paperback original - first printing. "A Brutal & Shocking Look at How 18,000,000 Americans Really Think, Feel, & Love."Lancer 25052, Includes contributions by Williams, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Shirley Jackson, Seymour Krim, John Howard Griffith, Langston Hughes, Junius Edwards and others. 160 pp.

New York:: Basic Books (Perseus),, (2002.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection by one of the most 'innovative, irreverent and outspoken iconoclasts of our time" - essays on racism, slavery, American history, Africa, the confederate flag, Celtic-American traditions, W. E. B. DuBois, terrorism on American soil and more. SIGNED on the title page. 189 pp.

Williamstown, MA:: Corner House Publishers,, 1971.. Hardcover first edition -. NF/VG (pc, rubbed.). First thus. Facsimile reprint of a book originally published in 1870, written by a white Union officer who was in command of an all black regiment, the First South Carolina Volunteers, which was both the first regiment made up of former slaves and the first all-black unit in the Union Army.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2000.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First US printing. Award-winning author Caryl Phillips explores three cities which were the points of the triangle forming the trans-Atlantic slave trade: Liverpool, constructed on the slave trade, now denying its past; the Ghanaian city of Elmina, site of an important slave embarkation fort in Africa; and Charleston, South Carolina, known as the entry point to America where one-third of black slaves were bought and sold. In this wide-ranging meditation on the legacy of slavery and the impact of the African diaspora on the life of a place and its people, Phillips interweaves his own observations with the stories of figures from the past. Born in St Kitts, Phillips was brought up in Leeds, England, educated in Oxford, and now lives in New York.

Chicago:: Urban Research Institute,, (1984, c 1981). Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. 3rd printing. A book which presents the African American Chicago community through the personal experiences of Dempsey Travis (a businessman, jazz musician and civil rights activist, as well as author), his family, and his fellow Chicagoans. . . "a comprehensive, intimate story of African Americans in Chicago, starting with John Baptiste Point du Sable, who was the first non-Native American to settle on the mouth of the Chicago River" to current events. Illustrated with many photographs. Sources, index. xix, 379 pp.