Search Results: Black Interest from Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books

NY: Signet , 1961. Book. Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. Signed by Author(s). 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Signet #P2709 [ii], 157, [3] pp., later printing. Very good condition with lite 'dog ears' at the corners o the first several pages. The author's best-known work, in which he darkened his skin and traveled the Deep South; an influential civil rights book. Uncommon signed. Housed in a custom made box..

Kirkland, Washington: Positively for Kids, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed Carmelo Anthony. 1st Edition. Carmelo Anthony is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks. Anthony attended Towson Catholic High School and Oak Hill Academy before playing college basketball at Syracuse. In Anthony's freshman season, he led the Orangemen to their first and only National Championship and was named the NCAA Tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Anthony then entered the 2003 NBA draft where he was selected with the third overall pick by the Denver Nuggets. Since entering the NBA, Anthony has been named an All-Star nine times and an All-NBA Team member six times. While playing for Denver, he led the Nuggets to the playoffs every year from 2004 to 2010, winning two division titles in that span. In 2009, Anthony led the Nuggets to their first Conference Finals appearance since 1985. In 2011, he was traded from Denver to the New York Knicks just days prior to the NBA trade… Read More

Poster. Good. No Binding. c1990, JACKIE ROBINSON promotional poster. 22x28 inches on heavy cardstock. Brooklyn Dodgers & Louisville Slugger photo. Presents well..

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. "Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New Year's Day. Trips to Demby for VD shots common. And what went on at the Oven these days was not to be believed . . . The proof they had been collecting since the terrible discovery in the spring could not be denied: the one thing that connected all these catastrophes was in the Convent. And in the Convent were those women." In Paradise--her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature--Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the… Read More

Book. Good. No Binding. Publication date 1858. 'THE BALLAD of KITTY WELLS' --rare copy of a Civil War-era LOVE SONG-- handwritten on Union stationary. This rendition of 'Kitty Wells' has lyrics attributed to Thomas Sloan, Jr., music by Charles Atherton. 'The Ballad of Kitty Wells' is in the collection of American Song Sheets, Library of Congress Rare Books and Special Collections. NICELY PRESENTED --MATTED & FRAMED in SILVER METAL-- the item measures 16"x 22.5"-- a thoughtful, careful display of the fragile song sheet. 'The Ballad of Kitty Wells' is a Civil War-era song of 'lost love'-- a Black man grieves her death while remembering life with his beloved Kitty Wells. Tremendously popular as a minstrel song in 19th century American popular music, the song may perhaps have had English origins. 'When the birds were singing in the morning/ and the myrtle and the ivy were in bloom/ and the sun on the hilltops was a dawning/ twas there we laid… Read More

NY: Stein and Day, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The cast of characters is varied and colorful--from Malcolm X to Mayor Daley; Martin Luther King, Jr. to Sheriff Jim Clark; Gladys Knight to Red Buttons; Bob Hope and Ed Sullivan to Bertrand Russell and Adlai Stevenson; Walter Cronkite, Tallulah Bankhead, John and Bobby Kennedy, and Barbra Streisand. The scenes span the continent and the world--Gregory in night clubs and at civil rights rallies; driving through a blizzard while being chased by armed rednecks; felled by a bullet while trying to restore order during the Watts riot; delivering 20,000 turkeys to Mississippi at Christmas; playing hide-and-seek with the CIA; fishing with the Indians; running for Mayor of Chicago and President of the United States; fasting in a jail cell; 'freeing' the Army with Jane Fonda; circling the globe in a futile effort to gain admission into Australia; collapsing during the Boston Marathon but running the 800-mile distance from… Read More