Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / African/Black Americans from Gargoyle Books

Washington, D. C.: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1994. Revised Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Catalogue designed to accompany a 1993-1995 traveling exhibition of the photographic works of Carrie Mae Weems, the first such widespread public showing for this Black American woman artist just then entering her '40s. First published in 1993, this is the… Read more about this item

Rand McNally & Co., 1938. Hardcover. Good+. Wilson, Clara Powers. Collection of 6 children's stories with colorful illustrations throughout by Clara Powers Wilson. Typical of the period, the title story employs stereotyped descriptions & images to tell the tale of a "little darky boy" who got his name because "his mouth was just the shape of a big… Read more about this item

Bedford, Massachusetts, 1941. First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. Voigt, Margot. Margot Voigt (1926-1923) illustrates this version of Helen Bannerman's classic children's story about a little black boy, his encounter with a tiger, pancakes, & his parents, Black Mumbo & Black Jumbo. Orig. written in India & published in 1899, this edition is… Read more about this item

Routledge, 2003. First Trade Paperback Edition 4th Printing. Soft cover. Very Good+. A university professor/journalists explores the forgotten history of people of African descent as Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany. The portrayal of Blacks in Nazi propaganda, the Afro-German resistance movement, & the treatment of blacks in concentration camps are examined, drawing implications for present-day race… Read more about this item

Chandler Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good+. Groundbreaking for1972, this is an edited collection of 15 articles + an Introduction & Bibliographical Essay by leading black scholars, authors, & politicians who explore the state of political participation by African Americans in the US. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1972, in 273… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. The true life story of the acclaimed African-American singer & actress in the early decades of the 20th century who rose to greatness from the "Negro slums" of Chester, PA, to success as a Broadway & Hollywood star. In… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Platt & Munk, 1955. reprint . Hardcover. Good/Fair. Eulalie. Class children's tale about the little black-Indian boy Sambo, his parents, Black Mumbo & Black Jumbo, & his encounter with the tiger & pancakes. Orig published in this version in 1925, with the classic racially stereotyped drawings by Eulalie, this is a later edition from… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. Collection of short works of fiction penned by Black American authors, including then-newcomers Alice Walker, Robert Boles, & Ronald Milner. Edited & with an Introduction by Hughes, hailed as the "Poet of the Negro People" &… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Bantam, 1981. First Paperback 4th Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Davis, Paul. This astonishing prose poem, a "celebration of being black and being woman" by first performed at a woman's bar outside Berkeley, CA. & went on to Broadway in 1976. Orig. published in hardcover in 1975, this is the 1980 First Mass Market Paperback… Read more about this item

Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair-Good. Lee, Manning. Children's story from the 1930s of "good times on a plantation" c. the 1850s, promoted as "another fine story of the South" by Knox, who had penned similar children's tales set in her native Alabama. The heroine of the tale is Miss Jimmy Deane, who spends happy times… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Alcorn, Stephen. An "exhilarating & dynamic" compendium of poems from Black writers both famous & obscure, from the first known African-American poet--Lucy Terry--to poet laureate Rita Dove. In 128 pages, illustrated throughout with vivid full-page, colorful drawings by Stephen Alcorn. A FIRST EDITION, Third Printing,… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good+. Presents a collection of 57 testimonies, affidavits, & statements, selected from approximately 257 provided in a lawsuit brought by victims of police brutality under the direction of Sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey (a noted white supremacist) & other public officials across the state… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Walker and Company, 1967. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Wangboje, Solomon Irein. Amazing introduction for children to the people & poetry of Africa, with traditional songs & verses brought to life with the stunning woodcut illustrations of Nigerian artist-teacher Solomon Wangboje. Unpaginated. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1967,… Read more about this item

New York, New York: The Platt & Munk Co. Inc., 1942. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Robson, Janet. Scarce & unique contribution to African-American literature, being one of the first books (in 1942) to picture a Black Santa Claus & a large cast of black characters (though they do all speak in dialect, are… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1929. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Planned as part of a research series on the social geography of the Southern US, this volume focuses on the cotton belt & the evolution of the system in which cotton came to form the economic backbone of the… Read more about this item

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Determined Productions, Inc., 1977. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Le Foll, Alain. Not Americanized versions of "soul food,'' but authentic recipes from across the African continent, in 68 pages with full-color illustrations throughout. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1971, this nearly square (5.50" x 5.75") hardcover 24mo has… Read more about this item

New York, New York: MacMillan Company, 1946. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Draws on historical accounts, documentary data, folklore, & previously unexplored files from the Writers Project of the Work Projects Administration held by the Louisiana Library Commission to offer a clear-eyed view of the practice of voodoo in Louisiana as it arose… Read more about this item

Crown Publishers, Inc., 1995. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Ringgold, Faith. In this inspirational illustrated book designed for children, but suitable for all ages, the acclaimed author of "Tar Beach" describes a dream she had about Martin Luther King, Jr., framing it as "uniquely personal vision in which she imagines the people of the… Read more about this item

Farleigh Dickinson University Presses, 1984. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. A muldisciplinary collection of 10 essays which explore the changing relations between Jewish & African-American from the 19th-century to the present, highlighting the situations in the US, Africa, & Israel. In 211 pages with an Introduction by the editor. Part of a collection of… Read more about this item

Bedford, Massachusetts: Lippincott, 1934. First American Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. Classic children's story about a little black boy, his encounter with a tiger, pancakes, & his parents, Black Mumbo & Black Jumbo. Orig. written in India & published in 1899, this is "The Only Authorized American Edition" from Lippincott, c. 1934 (no date in… Read more about this item