Search Results: African-American Literature from Grimalkin Books

South Deerfield, MA: Channing L. Bete Co., Inc, 1990. Decribed as a Scriptographic Booklet, this 1990 Edition mainly contains timelines with drawings on various topics related to the African American experience, including Colonization and Slavery, The American Revolution, The Cotton Revolution, Civil War and Reconstruction, The Turn of the Century, WWI and the Twenties, Depression and WWII, The Civil Rights Revolution, The Age of Protest, and The Age of Choices. This booklet is only 15 pages but is packed full of concise facts to inspire more in-depth research. The booklet measures 8 1/2 by 11. . Oversized Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Chicago: The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1976. This handsome, complete 20-volume set is in Fine condition. Most volumes appear to be unread. It also includes an oversized Near-Fine paperback, Introduction. This Introduction volume also contains the Contents of all 20 volumes and an Index of Authors and Sources. The Encyclopedia Britannica published this edition in 1976, just in time for America's Bicentennial celebration. Each book is bound in blue leatherette with "The Annals of America" blindstamped on the front panel, with gilt titles and borders on the spine (click on photo). The Introduction makes clear that this set is composed of a documentary rather than a narrative history. (If you're aware of the current textbook controversy, you will know that today's history books are often written by those with a strong political bias. However, these annals supply independent readers with the actual first-hand narratives themselves, thus allowing readers to come to their own… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1968. Possibly a First Edition, with no later printing history noted, this fascinating study of Black history, as seen through the eyes of both contemporary and period authors, illustrates the roles that African Americans have played in U.S. history from their African roots through slavery, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Contributors includes W.E.B. Du Bois, John Hope Franklin, C. Vann Woodward, Benhamin Quarles, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The book is in close to Fine condition, but with a former owner's inscription on the front free endpaper. The book is bound in a light salmon colored cloth with a brown spine cloth, and die-stamped gilt spine titles. The binding is tight and secure, and the pages are clean, white, and bright throughout. The unclipped dust jacket has some chipping at the spine tips, plus several tears that have been repaired on the reverse with non-acidic tape. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books, 1995. This Stated First Edition from March 1995 (and unless it's stated, it's not) has a "number line" ending in a "1" to indicate First Printing. The book is in close to Fine condition, with a close to Fine unclipped dust jacket. (Click on photo.) This monumental anthology traces the history and culture of African American males from slavery to the present through their own writings. There is an appendix in the rear with notes about the hundreds of contributing authors. The book is bound in black boards with a black spine cloth and gilt spine titles. There is a small, pale stain on the top edge, as if someone splattered a drop of wine. This does not affect the books interior at all. The dust jacket has some shelf rubbing along the bottom edge. (Click on photo.) I've placed the dust jacket into an archival, Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 6 1/4 by 10 1/2 inches and includes 910 pages. Due to the four-pound shipping weight for… Read More

New York: The Free Press, 1969. This Third Printing oversized soft cover from June, 1969, is in Near Fine condition and does not appear to have been read. This is very minimal edge wear and corner curl (as shown in photo). The book features writing from Frederick Douglass, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B.Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, LeRois Jones, and many more. The pages are clean, bright, and sparkling throughout. This exceptional anthology includes a Bibliography and Index. The book measures 5 1/8 by 8 1/4 inches and includes 604 pages.. Oversized Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. This novel is a rare work of fiction from Langston Hughes, remembered mainly for his poetry. This book first appeared in 1930 and was Langston's first novel. It illumined through his various characters how the ability to laugh can provide the strength to overcome ignorance and racism. The book is republished here as a "First Edition Thus" with a "number line" starting with a "1" to indicate First Printing. This oversized paperback edition is in As New, unread condition, and also features a new Introduction by Maya Angelou and a Foreword by Arna Bontemps from an earlier 1969 edition. The book measures 5 1/4 by 8 inches and includes 299 pages. . First Edition Thus. Oversized Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998. Book is a first edition, first printing hardcover, signed by Ms. Campbell (signature only, no inscription) on the title page. Book is in As New, unread condition with white cloth spine and boards, and original unclipped dust jacket. The Washington Post Book World has written, "If this is a fair world, Bebe Moore Campbell will be remembered as the most important African-American novelist of this century -- except for, maybe, Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin." "Singing in the Comeback Choir" concerns a successful African-American woman, Maxine, who returns to her old Philadelphia neighborhood to help an ailing grandmother. In an attempt to remove her grandmother from the hopeless decay around her, Maxine is surprised to learn that her grandmother does not wish to leave and is ready to fight to achieve her own goals, which include not only personal redemption, but the restoration of an entire slum. Ms.Campbell died of brain cancer on November… Read More

New York: David McKay, 1969. This First Edition is in Near Fine condition, with a Near Fine, unclipped dust jacket. (Click on photo.) From the dust jacket: "A major novel of the American slave trade that annihilates the myths of black African docility and white humanity on an unfrogettable nightmare voyage that takes the reader into the hearts and minds and private hells of the slavers as well as the enslaved." The book is bound in black cloth with gold lettering. The binding is tight and secure, and the pages are mainly clean, with a few margin stains. However, the former owner turned over page corners in lieu of using a bookmark, so nearly a dozen corners are thus creased. The dust jacket has light rubbing and toning, plus one tiny tear. I've placed the dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 5 1/2 by 8 1/4 inches and includes 278 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.