Search Results: African-American Studies from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. xxix, 381 p. w/endnotes, index. the second volume in a two volume series documenting the relationship between American Communism and African Americans, and to bring out the impact of that in combating racism. Uncommon.

Southfield MI: Charro Press, 1991. First edition. hardcover in glossy illustrated boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. SIGNED and inscribed by Wright on the title page. 156 p. w/illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. Dr. Wright (1923-2019) was a teacher, attorney, administrator, nbanker, and leader of Detroit's African American community. She helped her husband, Dr. Charles H, Wright, found the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.

New York, NY: Vantage Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has some wear and rubbing to edges with scuffing to covers with slight tear on upper corner of back cover. 111 pages with illustrations and bibliography. A memoir of the author's efforts at the Georgia Academy for the Blind to help Afro-American handicapped children.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxix, 273 p. w/footnotes, bibliography, index. A study focusing on African American women cooks in white households, their working conditions, adaptations, and the changing opportunities and work relationships over time.

Philadelphia: Franklin Court Print Shop and Bindery, 1979. Facsimile. Pamphlet. Very good. Thin duodecimo pamphlet (smaller than standard). Slight wear and creasing to blue cover. 39 (3) p. Printed on letter press at the Franklin Court Print Shop and Bindery in a limited edition of 400 copies. Regading the rolls of African Ameicans in the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic.

Detroit, MI: Singing Tree, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Reprint of 1888 work. Black cloth. Gilt lettering and designs on spine. An attractive copy. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 171 p. with glossary. Born in Savannah Jones earned a law degree in Harvard. He was ruined by the Civil War, where he led the artillery in defense at the siege of Savanah in 1864. He went north to repair his finances, but returned to Georgia in 1877. Jones collected the myths, writtten in his interpretation of the Gullah dialect. This work is on which Joel Harris later drew upon for his Brer Rabbit tales.

Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Covers have some soiling. xv, 188 p. w/footnotes,tables, bibliography. Section B

Washington DC: Society for Research in Child Development, National Research Council, 1937. First edition. Pamphlet. Good. Good softcover/pamphlet in brown wrapper. Wear and rubbing to edges with slight tears to covers on head and heel of spine. Slight crease to lower corner of front cover and minor scuffing overall to covers. Stamp of previous owner on front cover's upper corner. Inscribed by one author (Van Alstyne) on title page in ink. 63 pages with tables, figures, appendix, and bibliography.

More Publishing Company, No date (1970's). pamphlet. very good. Pamphlet. Slight war to edges and corners. Faint crease down the middle of covers and pages as if it had been folded then flattened long ago. Old Price stamped on cover. 22p. A collection of 12 rhyming African American toasts that extol masculine traits and often trickster heroes, as opposed to the related dozens, which were often isults directed at other people, or aprt of a back and forth insult contest. Uncommon.