Search Results: Titles starting with A from Crow Hop Rare Books

Late 1950s. 8.5” x 11” illustrated letterhead with “Birmingham Ala” written on front. VG (wrinkling and staining, with pinholes to upper corners). Features illustration of motel with images of Gaston and the lobby, bedroom, master suite, and coffee shop on left side. The letterhead notes the motel’s air-conditioned rooms and central gas heating, delicious meals, spacious parking, telephone in each room, down town location, and beautiful patio and lobby. The A.G. Gaston Motel opened in 1954 with the aim of providing first-class lodging and dining to African American travelers. It became “a significant site of civil rights activities in 1963 that served as the headquarters of the campaign to desegregate public accommodations in Birmingham.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and leaders of the SCLC took up residence at the Gaston Motel from April to May 1963, and on May 11, a bomb was detonated at the Motel near room 30 where Dr. King and Ralph Abernathy had been holding meetings—fortunately, they… Read More

Illustrated (presumably the author) on both sides, with striking and skilled line drawings with watercolor accents. Approximately 6” x 42” (unrolled). No author identified. No place identified. Dated “3/21/1973.” A unique dreamlike story that begins as a letter to S (Sedric), recounting how the female speaker “felt my shadow disengage itself” before she goes to deliver a message to Chardric, Prince of History, who peacefully smoked his water pipe in his American dwelling as the speaker sits upon his beautiful Chinese rug. Just then, “a feminine Illusion crashed through the window: it was the most beautiful Pregnant Hippopotamus I have seen.” The story continues from there as the rug transports them to a papyrus patch and to the Nile and back, before concluding, “Can you understand my succumbing to Chardric? He was a bit like you.” An accomplished and beautifully-realized vernacular artistic creation. 

New York: House of Books Ltd., 1962. VG+ faded cloth covered boards with gilt lettering, slight spine slant, lacking the glassine. vi, 88, [2] pp. This First Edition is limited to three hundred copies SIGNED by Moore, this one being No. 300.

Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. 86 pp. VG+ (rubbing and scuffing). Pen and ink drawing on rear cover by Richard Koppe.

Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980. Limited to 300 numbered and SIGNED copies by Welty, this being #7. Printed on Frankfurt paper and designed by Pat Reagh. Near Fine in marbled boards. In her Introduction to this volume, Welty recalls that she wrote this story, one of her first, around 1935, although it wasn’t published until 1977. Near Fine.

New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dustjacket. A beautiful collection from this Pulitzer Prize winner.

817 Grehm Avenue, Winston-Salem, N.C. Approximately 8” x 6.5” with black and white image of the five-piece group centered (Andrew Williams, Henry C. Boyd, James Leak, George Bryant, Mgr., Taft Bryant). Heavy soiling on both sides, rubbing, water damage and handwritten notation to bottom edge.African American gospel groups like Jubilee King were prominent in the early twentieth century in both black colleges and universities and churches. A nice survival.

5 Handguns. Marker, glitter, paint(?) on repurposed plywood (3/4” thick, 9.5” x 20.5”). Circa 1999. Gowens (1918-2003), a black self-taught artist, was known to "shoot up a box of cartridges a week" in his yard in Sanford, Florida, reasoning that it might scare away anyone who might be lurking in the dark (https://www.orlandoweekly.com). His art pieces focus on guns, as he was seemingly obsessed with the topic after he was reportedly robbed of his guns on October 27, 1999 (a date referenced on this piece).

New York: Crown, 2002. Uncorrected Proof. Near Fine in pictorial wraps.

New York: Random House, 1933. First Edition. VG+ in a Good+ clipped dustjacket (chipping to extremities, 1/2" loss to crown of spine, 2" tear to rear near spine, rubbing). An American folk play that is "a relaxation from the tragic mood" that permeates O'Neill's other work.

25 pieces total—handwritten lyrics, his EP, plus 2 drawings—by Memphis musical artist Al Jay (real name Al James) from the early 1990s. Edgy R&B/funk/rap/disco/hip hop fusion sound. Listen at https://www.reverbnation.com/aljay12. Lyrics include “DoTha Gangsta Dance,” “Big O Studd U,” “I’m Just a Getto Man,” “It’s X Rated,” and “Slippen In Early.”

The album was compiled by one Don Cranmer of Birmingham, Alabama, documenting his involvement with the association from its early days and featuring photos of the shows he attended. Oblong (19.5” x 13”) photo album/scrapbook, faux leather covers a bit dusty, ring bound with metal fasteners. Overall VG or better.   32 leaves (6 blank) with photos and ephemera pasted to both rectos and versos (a few loose). A number of pages and photos annotated in legible print. 106 photographs total (26 in color, 80 black and white) of various sizes (3.5” x 3.5”, 5” x 4”, 8” x 10” and some larger). Photos include images from selected gun shows, display tables and booths (some with Confederate memorabilia and flags visible), attendees at shows and banquets, and many nicely-realized shots of specific guns. Ephemera includes two 11” x 14” heavy card-stock posters for the Confederate States Centennial Arms Show (1961 & 1965), approximately 30 of Cramner’s membership cards (for the Alabama, Georgia, and… Read More

New York: Henry Holt, 1993. VG+ Softcover (corner crease to cover, soiling, edgewear). His first novel, republished in 1993 after Butler had won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. SIGNED by Butler on the title page.

New York: Knopf, 1930. Limited Edition. Number 656 of 950 copies. Designed by L.J. Ansbacher. Near Fine (spine pastedown has a few tiny chips) in VG slipcase with entire label present.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. 84 pp. VG+ (scuffing and rubbing to covers). WIlliam Stafford blurb. The New York author's first book of poetry. Scheck was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her collection The WIllow Grove (1996).

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1944. First Edition. 122 pp. Near Fine in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket with toning to back cover and two small closed tears to upper edge. This “biography of the spirit of America” by Pulitzer Prize winner Benet was published posthumously.

New York: Random House, 2008. First Edition. Fine in Fine dustjacket. SIGNED by Canin on title page.

New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1967. Exhibition catalogue. Selected by Lamar Dodd and William D. Paul, Jr. Co-sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Committee of The University of Georgia and AFA. Stapled white pictorial wraps with a touch of soiling. 8” x 8”. 40 pp. VG+. Includes work by Ben Shahn, Morris Graves, Walt Kuhn, and Philip Evergood.

Cleveland: The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1976. [24] pp. VG+ with a touch of rubbing and discoloration to covers. The Exhibition ran from January 10 through February 21, 1976 at the New Gallery, featuring twenty works of the sixties by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, George Segal, and others.

Los Angeles: Southland Press, 1984. Near Fine, 29 [3] pp. stapled wraps with a touch of sunning. SIGNED by Porter and INSCRIBED to Pulitzer Prize winner Maxine Kumin: “Signed copy for Maxine Kumin (See p. 21) (Looking forward to hearing you at the O. Henry Patrons’ Dinner in Greensboro!) If you would like some extra copies of this, let us know.” No signed copies in commerce (as of August 2018) and only 13 copies found in OCLC.