Search Results: Black Culture from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Cape Town, South Africa: Africa South Publications (Pty.) Ltd, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Uncommon 1960 issue of the this review from South Africa. Library stamp to front cover (no other markings), light general wear.

Cape Town, South Africa: Africa South Publications (Pty.) Ltd, 1958. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 128pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Uncommon 1958 issue of the this review from South Africa. Library stamp to front cover and notation to back cover (interiorly unmarked), light general wear.

Cape Town, South Africa: Africa South Publications (Pty.) Ltd, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Uncommon 1960 issue of the this review from South Africa. Includes "A Drink in the Passage" by Alan Paton. Library stamp to front cover (no other markings), light general wear.

London: Africa South Publications (Pty.) Ltd, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Uncommon 1961 issue of the this review from South Africa. Light general wear, price to cover.

London: Africa South Publications (Pty.) Ltd, 1960. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Uncommon 1960 issue of the this review from South Africa. Light general wear, price to cover, one minor typo corrected in pencil.

Terre Haute, IN: Indiana State University, 1996. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 192pp, printed wrappers. Issue devoted to author and cartoonist Charles Johnson. Clean, unmarked copy with bumping to top edge.

Terre Haute, IN: Indiana State University, 1998. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 192pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes Andrew Shin and Barbara Judson on James Baldwin and masculinity. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear.

St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis University, 2005. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 272pp, printed wrappers. Thick double issue, includes Brian Norman on James Baldwin, interviews with Sonia Sanchez and Pinkie Gordon Lane, writing by William Henry Lewis, A. B. Spellman, et al. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear.

Terre Haute, IN: Indiana State University, 1994. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 160pp, printed wrappers. Unmarked copy with minor wear.

Terre Haute, IN: Indiana State University, 1994. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 168pp, printed wrappers. Special issue devoted to work by and about Clarence Major. Nice unmarked copy from Major's collection.

St. Louis, MO: Saint Louis University, 2004. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 204pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes Elise Miller on James Baldwin, Kerr Houston on Spike Lee, an interview with Tanandarive Due, writing by Rochelle Spencer et al. Clean, unmarked copy with minor wear.

New York: The Moretus Press, Inc, 1981. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 64pp, printed wrappers. This issue of this essential bibliophile magazine includes a cover story on Anti-Slave Trade Literature in England, plus a bibliographical checklist of Eudora Welty and other interesting content. Unmarked copy, light wear.

New Tork: The Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, Inc, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. INSCRIBED by contributor Jim Normington within. 4to, 96pp, printed wrappers. First and only issue of this ambitious cultural magazine edited by Quincy Troupe. Unmarked copy with a bit of general wear and bumping.

New York: Dialog Publications, Inc, 1964. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Includes poems by Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen, statements on the Goldwater presidential candidacy by Paul Robeson and others (including a memorable cover by Hugo Gellert), and unpublished letters by Ernest Hemingway. Unmarked copy, light wear.

New York: Dialog Publications, Inc, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 36pp, stapled wrappers. Includes an Angela Davis cover and lecture, plus tributes to Paul Robeson and writing and art by Pete Seeger, Rockwell Kent, et al. Unmarked copy, light wear and soil.

New York: Telephone Books, 1979. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Nice copy of this collection of writing and drawings by Sotere Torregian. Unmarked copy, light toning to covers and minor edge wear.

Chicago: House of Judah, n.d. (ca. 1970s). 1st edition. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to leaflet printed on both sides. A rare piece of ephemera from the House of Judah African-American "Real Hebrew Israelite" new religious movement, which was subsequently the subject of a criminal trial beginning in 1983. This leaflet appears to date from the 1970s period of the group's activity in Chicago prior to relocating to Michigan. A rare piece of fringe ephemera from the Black spiritual underground. Horizontal fold line, sound overall.

Seattle: Before Columbus Foundation, 1990. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 32pp, stapled self-cover. Rare issue of this review of multicultural literature, includes an open letter on Apartheid at Rutgers by Amiri Baraka, a review of Black Athena by Iain Boal, other important contributors. Unmarked copy, light wear.

Berkeley, CA: Before Columbus Foundation, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 128pp, stapled self-cover. Book-format anthology of samples from works distributed by the Before Columbus Foundation, with a dizzying array of brief contributions from a range of notables, illustrated with many photos. Also includes a discussion amongst the principals of the Foundation. Unmarked copy, a little sunning to spine and outer wear.

Terre Haute, IN: School of Education, Indiana State University, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 40pp, stapled self-cover. Scarce 1978 issue of this review of Black American literature. About half of the content is devoted to Ralph Ellison (depicted on the cover), and there is also an interview with Toni Morrison and critical writing on Richard Wright, Ann Petry, et al. Unmarked copy, small tear at top of spine and back cover.