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New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Second Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Fine Dust Jacket. Mylar jacket cover. Handsome volume in burgundy half cloth gilt titled with tan paper-wrapped boards; faint small darkish area on front, otherwise very clean and unmarked. Sewn binding tight and solid, square with sharp corners. Top edge of text block has a pale smudge. Rough cut. Interior is in Fine Condition. Maps on endpapers indicating the author's journeys around America. Walt Harrington is a white man married to an African American woman, with two children. A "joke" about 'those people', when Mr Harrington realized the buut of the joke was his children, led to his 25,000 mile excursion through black America, a personal journey that is also a documentary look at African Americans today. Crossings speaks about race in America today as it cuts across geography, age, occupation, and… Read More

New Y, New York, USA: Henry Holt & Co, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back An inspiring anthology that brings together 27 creative spirits who tell about Black women's artistic lives, through essays, interviews, photographs. FIRST PRINTING. HARDCOVER BOOK AND JACKET IN FINE CONDITION. MYLAR JACKET COVER. Spotless black half cloth binding with bright and bold gilt titles, red boards; tight, solid, square, with sharp corners. Unclipped colorful and bright dust jacket. 230 pages. 8.5 x 6 inches. Henry Holt & Co, New York 1998.

Boston New York London: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Fine black binding with gilt titles, very clean, as new. Internals are very clean and completely unmarked. The last two pages were not bound in square so they extend out a bit from the text block--a defect in the publishing process. The black and white jacket with gold titles is very clean with slight wear to extremities. A man at Charles Blakey's door wants to rent the basement in his beautiful home that has been in his family for generations. He is hesitant but financial issues decide this for him and the man moves in. Chalres is black and his new tenant is white. . Charles gets some very peculiar requests from his tenant, Anniston Bennet, and is gradually drawn into a role he never dreamed of. It turns into an exploration of inconceivable worlds of power and… Read More

New York: Dial Books/Penguin Group, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. P J Loughan. Type: Ex-Library First Edition. Hardcover Ex-Library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Illustrated by P J Loughan and also with historic photos. Except for minimal lib marks, in very nice condition--quite clean and otherwise unmarked, tight, solid and square; Pages completely clean, no marks of any kind, no creasing. Jailed nine times before her 15th birthday, Lynda Blackmon Lowery refused to give up the fight for equal rights. She was the youngest marcher on the historic 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama-- a compelling true story, for young as well as older readers. 125 pages. 125 pages. 6.5 x 9.4 inches. 2015, Dial Books/Penguin Group, New York.