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

Measures 5.25” x 17” with staining, light wrinkling and edgewear, and soiling and sticker ghost on verso. Advertises the doubleheader between the Cincinnati Reds and Pittsburgh Pirates at Crosley Field (Roberto Clemente, in his second season with the Pirates, hit a double in the second game while Frank Robinson, in his rookie season with the Reds, hit a home run and triple during the doubleheader—he would go on to win Rookie of the Year that season) and a new picture at Cinerama, “Seven Wonders of the World at Capitol Theatre.” Also advertised is a Coney Island bargain outing.

Detroit: BTWBA, [late 1980s]. First Edition. 12 pp., stapled illustrated wraps. VG+ or better. 36 advertisements with an alphabetical membership roster containing more than 140 names. BTWBA is Detroit’s oldest black business, founded in 1930. This directory was distributed under the leadership of the organization’s first female Chair, Betty E. Pulliam. “Our strategy is to marshal the consumer power of our community for the benefit of our community!...This is your Directory, and we urge you to begin today patronizing these black-owned businesses. This is the first of several directories to be printed for your use. (While we do not protest against non-black-owned businesses with a large black patronage, we urge you to support black-owned businesses).” Not found separately in OCLC, and no issues in commerce as of February 2023.

New York: Harper/Colophon Books, 1984 . First Edition. VG+ illustrated softcover. INSCRIBED by Maupin on half-title page: "Once again For Harry Armistead Maupin."Book 4 of "Maupin's San Francisco saga" (NYT).

Broadside measures approximately 10.5” x 16” and is housed in a lightly-toned olive green portfolio with baby foot motif. Overall Near Fine. Text printed in red, halftone illustration of a baby’s foot and door after pencil drawing by author. SIGNED by Niffenegger in an edition of 75. Colophon printed inside portfolio reads, “Printed on two Van der cook presses by Audrey Niffenegger assisted by Bea Nettles’ Experimental Printmaking class at UIUC School of Art and Design. Folio designed by Jason Pietrucha, laser-cut by Michael Peyton and printed by the Soybean Press. 2-7-08.” Niffenegger trained as a visual artist and has gone on to write the critically-acclaimed The Time Traveler’s Wife (basis for the 2009 film starring Rachel McAdams) and Her Fearful Symmetry.Not offered in commerce, and only three U.S. holdings per OCLC (UIUC, Central Florida, Newberry).

Kingsport, TN: Tennessee Squire Association, 1965. First Edition. Privately Printed for the Tennessee Squire Association. Near Fine in a VG or better pictorial dustjacket (chipping and closed tears to edges, toning). Laid in is a typed note on Tennessee Squire stationery dated February 26, 1970 to Peg Gay in NYC fro D.E. Motlow, Secretary, discussing this "rather unusual book" of poems and pictures by Joe Clark, "the famous free-lance photographer. Clark for many years has contributed to magazines such as Life, Sports Illustrated and True."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. First Edition. SIGNED by Wolff on the title page. Fine in a VG+ dustjacket, with chip at tail of spine, shelfwear, and some minor wrinkling and a fold to upper part of rear dustjacket. With publisher’s promotional bookcard laid in.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First Edition, third printing. SIGNED by Naylor on title page. Fine in a Fine dustjacket.

[Baltimore]: Louis Fields, 1996. 128 pp. Near Fine (a touch of rubbing and edgewear). An informative guidebook published during Baltimore’s bicentennial, with sections on African American historical sites and attractions, Freedom Fighters, sports, churches, education, and a thorough business services directory. No copies in commerce and not found in OCLC. 2 copies available.

Atlanta, 1895. 31. pp plus folding map. About VG printed stapled wraps, with 4" tear to front cover at spine, edgewear."Prepared under the direction of the Committee of the Atlanta Camp, United Confederate Veterans, for Information of Visitors, and sold for the Benefit of the Camp."

New York: Harcourt, 2000. Advance Reading Copy of the FIrst U.S. Edition. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. Fine in illustrated wraps.

St. Paul, MN: North Central Publishing Company [The James F. Bell Book Trust], 1959 . 18 pages, oblong in wrappers, in Linotype Caledonia on Mowhawk Superfine Text. Near Fine. With a beautiful facsimile folding map in rear pocket of Jorge Reinel’s Chart of 1534. Discusses the West African Trade and the Portuguese in Brazil.

Beverly, MA: Wilkscraft Creative Printing, [1980s]. 4 pp. with pictorial covers of Boston and Maine Train. Wine prices hand-written.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1947. First Printing. VG (slight wave to pages, wrinkling to opening pages) in a Good+ price-clipped dustjacket (dampstain to rear and bottom half, toning, edgewear). Jacket design by Alan Haemer. A high spot of midcentury Western American fiction, and Guthrie's first book.

New York: Bonanza Books, 1961. First Edition. Near Fine in a VG dustjacket with shelfwear and soiling. Contains complete and detailed instructions on every step from selecting the wood to the painted and mounted bird by Gilley, who had carved over 5,000 different bird models. Illustrations and photographs throughout by this Maine author. With nautical bookplate of one Matthew C. Perry (of Newport, RI), most likely a relative of the famous Commodore Perry.

Los Angeles: Inner City Cultural Center, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. Near Fine with only minor loss to upper rear cover. Comb binding with brown illustrated card covers. 32 leaves each printed solely on recto. Fourteen ink drawings, each repeated twice. First appearance of each drawing is a full page, with title captioned in lower left corner; second appearance follows on next leaf with poem. Faustino Caigoy is a Filipino-American visual- and word-artist and was a noted muralist in Los Angeles during the early 1970s. "i don't write no nice poems, nows-a-days. i guess if i really force myself i could, but i cai n't, so's i goes-on writing about the ills, i guess before the doc comes and tells me what's wrong, i can goes-on the same way. the doc tells me that you have to have your b.a., 'fore you kin write good-stuffs. i guess in a way he's right, i guess. but i kin neba tell what is a b.a., i guess it means, sometin kills me to say, like "being-anglo", guess that's what it means. so the man keeps… Read More

[Palo Alto, CA]: [Stanford University], [1970]. Joyce E. King, Editor. Illustrated softcover (approximately 8.75” x 12”). A black yearbook of sorts, described as “a unique document in which we have said more than just a few words about the events of a single year, rather BLACK 70 is an effort to capture one aspect of the Black Experience in America.” Contains numerous images and sections on The Black Community at Stanford (1967-1970), visits from Imamu Ameer Baraka and Dick Gregory, features on the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King Jr., demands and ideology of the Black Student Union, the Black Drama Group, Black Athletes, the Afro-American Studies Program, and black faculty and staff. In the Dedication to the volume, Robert G. Walker writes, “Today, Black students at Stanford University realize that we are not here through the philanthropic or altruistic notions of white America. We have ridden here on the shoulders of the brutalized Black masses…May we all go forth from this momentary… Read More

Washington, D.C.: The New Classroom, 1972. Black cardboard box with folding flap, approximately 4.25” x 7.25” which houses two audio cassette tapes and a yellow printed insert, “Liner Notes (#1), folded to make six panels (5” x 10.5” unfolded). Liner notes are a touch wrinkled, with wear to box and a small indentation on front, both cassette tapes are in excellent condition. Overall VG+.  Typed address label (with August 1972 postmark) to Gerard Dombrowski at ABYSS Publications in Somerville, MA. Dombrowski was one of the founding editors of the experimental poetry magazine Abyss, which launched in 1967 and is notable for publishing, among others, Charles Bukowski, who was a friend of Dombrowski. In fact, in 1969, ABYSS Publications published Hugh Fox’s critical study of Bukowski; that year, Bukowski wrote a letter to Dombrowski telling him his thoughts: “You want it straight? It was dull, straight, academic and uncourageous.”  Cassettes include a total of three hours of recordings… Read More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945. Early printing (not the true first edition, as it does not include First Edition statement or M-T). VG+ (two ownership stamps on ffep) in VG or better dustjacket (no price present, edgewear and soiling). One of the most popular 20th century black autobiographies.

Detroit: Inner City Press, 1984. First Edition. 48 pp. (with an additional page inserted). Illustrated red stapled wraps (5.5” x 8.5”). VG (likely water stain to final 20 pages, light ring impression on front cover, edgewear), about VG. INSCRIBED by the author on title page: “To John My Young Brother Hang In There Peace Zaire 7/29/84”). The author’s first book of poetry (he was about 28 years old at the time of publication)—his biography on the back cover notes “He writes from a strong Black point of view and very much relates to the experiences of Black people around the world. This book is ever flowing with Blackness.” In his Introduction, Kwauhuru writes, “I say asante sana to all the Black poets who picked up a pen and wrote about the Black experience or whatever, as long as it was relevant to Black people. They put out the vibe that enabled me to write.” Poems include “Weed Smoking Ain’t Cool,” “In the Ghetto,” “Beauty is a Black Woman,” “Ears for Reggae,” “The Klu Klux… Read More

Los Angeles City College. Black Student Union. 9 pp. with photographs, folded (8.5” x 12”). Good (chipping and wear, tears at folds, horizontal fold). A publication of the Black Student Union at Los Angeles City College. Articles on the upcoming Black Culture Week, an Editorial, Letters to the Editor, cartoons (“Professor Soul”), poetry, reviews of the play Fall of the House of King, Die Nigger Die, and a Black history musical drama entitled Where Are We Going, and articles including “A Lesson in Jazz History,” “A Rap with Dorothy Healey on the Freeing of Angela,” and “Media Distorts Blackwoman’s Image.” No copies appearing in commerce or in OCLC, although it does appear in Danky (789), who notes that early issues (not including the one here) can be found at Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research, Los Angeles. A scarce survival.