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THE DEAD LECTURER.
NY: Grove Press, 1964. 1st printing. 8vo, pp. 79. Paper wraps. VG. Poems. More
BULLETPROOF DIVA; Tales of race, sex, and hair
NY: Doubleday, (1994). First printing. 8vo, pp. 306. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in somewhat scuffed dj. Essays and articles, many from the author's Village Voice column. More
JEAN TOOMER AND THE PRISON-HOUSE OF THOUGHT; A phenomenology of the spirit
Amherst MA: University of Massachusetts, (1993). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xv, 191. Notes, bibliography, index. A fine copy in lightly scuffed dj. More
LIVING ROOM; New poems by
NY: Thunder's Mouth, (1985). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 134. Blue cloth. Cover slightly scuffed at ends of spine, o/w a nice copy in little scuffed and chipped dj. More
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES; African-American Notes on the State of the Union
NY: Pantheon, [1992]. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 228. Fine copy in dj. remnants of a rusted staple on the ep. Still a very good copy. More
TRANSLATING SLAVERY; Gender and race in French women's writing, 1783-1823
Kent OH: Kent State University, (1994). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xiv, 346. Appendices, notes bibliography, index. Dark blue cloth stamped in copper. Top edges lightly spotted, o/w a nice copy. More
JOINING PLACES; Slave neighborhoods in the Old South
Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina, (2007). First printing. 8vo, pp. x, 365. Notes, bibliography, index. Map. As new in dj. A new look at the slave community in the Natchez district of Mississippi: marriage, resistance, independent production, paternalism, autonomy. More
THE NEGRO LEAGUES AUTOGRAPH GUIDE
Richmond VA: Tuff Stuff, (1999). 4to, pp. 271. Illustrated with photographs of players and autographs. Paper wraps. A nice copy. Signatures of about 200 stars of the Negro leagues between 1885 and the eary 1960s. More
JAMES BALDWIN
NY: Chelsea House, (1994). First printing. 8vo, pp. 143. List of works, further reading, chronology, index. Illustrated wtih photographs. [Lives of notable gay men and lesbians.] Paper over boards. A nice copy in dj. A biography. More
A VISITATION OF SPIRITS; A novel by...
NY: Grove, (1989). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 257. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in somewhat scuffed dj. Author's first book. More
PEOPLE WHO LED TO MY PLAYS
NY: Knopf, 1987. First edition. Large 8vo, pp. 125. Illustrated wtih many small photographs. Paper over boards with cloth spine. A nice copy in very slightly chipped dj. A memoir. More
BLACK MAN'S BURDEN
NY: Trident, 1965. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 176. White cloth. Cover slightly soiled at edges, o/w a nice copy in little scuffed and soiled, price clipped, dj. Author's publicity photo laid in. The author's third book. More
SLAVERY TIME WHEN I WAS CHILLUN DOWN ON MARSTER'S PLANTATION; Interviews with Georgia slaves
Savannah GA: Beehive, (1973). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xviii, 167. References, index. Illustrated with photographs. Brown cloth. Edges slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy in chipped and little soiled dj. More
ANNIE, GWEN, LILLY, PAM AND TULIP
NY: Knopf, 1989. Fischl, Eric. First Trade edition. 4to, pp. not numbered. Illustrations by Eric Fischl. Published in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art. Yellow paper over boards with black cloth spine, in pictorial slipcase. Box slightly scuffed, o/w a nice copy. More
TWENTY YEARS ON WHEELS; ...As told to Amy Lee
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, (1989). First printing. 8vo, pp. 147. Discography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Discography compiled by Howard Rye. About as new in dj. The life of a traveling jazz musician. More
A SEPARATE CINEMA; Fifty years of Black-cast posters
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1998). Second printing. 4to, pp. 168. Index. With a preface by Spike Lee, and introduction by Donald Bogle. Color reproductions of posters for films starring Black actors, with commentary. Paper wraps. Cover little scuffed, o/w a nice copy. More
UNIFICATION OF A SLAVE STATE; The rise of the planter class in the South Carolina backcountry, 1760-1808
Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina, (1990). First printing. 8vo, pp. 331. Appendices, index. Author's presentation on flyleaf. A nice copy in slightly scuffed dj. The author weaves social, political, and religious history into an account of planter class formation and southern frontier development. More
SIMPLE JUSTICE; The history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality
NY: Knopf, 1976. First Edition. 8vo, pp. x, 823, xxiii. Appendix, notes, indices. Illustrated with photographs. Front edge little spotted, o/s a nice copy in scuffed and chipped dj. A classic study of a turning point in U. S. history. More
THE ART OF GWEN KNIGHT; NEVER LATE FOR HEAVEN, foreword by Janeanne A. Upp, with essays by Sheryl Conkelton and Barbara Earl Thomas
Seattle: University of Washington Press, (2003). Gwen Knight. First Edition. Oblong 8vo, pp. 83. Illustrated in color throughrought. A fine copy in dj. Inscribed by Knight as Gwendolyn Lawrence, 5/13/04 on the end paper. Knight was married to Jacob Lawrence. Gwendolyn Clarine Knight was an American artist who was born..... More
TALKING DIRTY TO THE GODS; Poems
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2000). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 134. A nice copy in slightly scuffed dj. More
SAVAGE INEQUALITIES; Children in America's schools
NY: Crown, (1991). Third printing. 8vo, pp. ix, 262. Appendix, notes, index. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Almost as new in dj. Kozol shows how, though the civil rights movement has moved forward, the U.S. has moved backward in the field of education for all. More
POETS & PLAYERS.
Santa Barbara, CA: Harvest Publishers, 1976. 8vo, pp. 65. Paper wraps. Inscribed by Richard Dauenhauer to the poet paul Metcalf. VG.30 A dialogue and 2 poems; Simone de Beauvoir questions Jean-Paul Sartre, Glacier Bay concerto, by Richard Dauenhauer; Afro-American Poetry, by nandi jordan. More
SILVIA DUBOIS,; (Now 116 yers old.) A biografy of the slav who whipt her mistres and gave her fredom.
NY: Negro Universities, (1969). Reprint of 1883 edition. 8vo, pp. 124. Frontis portrait. Brown cloth. Edges very slightly soiled, o/w a nice copy. The book is printed by the rules of "spelling reform," which is rather interesting (if more or less illegible) in itself. More