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NY: Modern Library, (2000). First printing. 8vo, pp. 237. Edited by Albert Murray and John F. Callahan. Illustrated with photographs. Fine. More
NY: Modern Library, (2000). First printing. 8vo, pp. 237. Edited by Albert Murray and John F. Callahan. Illustrated with photographs. Fine. More
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1964. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 32. Paper wraps. [Lectures presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. ] Cover some toned, o/w a VG tight copy. More
NY: Basic, (2003). Advance reading copy. Small 8vo, pp. xvi, 179. Author's signature on flyleaf. Paper wraps. Spine slightly yellowed, slightly bumped at bottom, o/w a nice copy. More
Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1967. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 378. Black cloth. Edges of cover little rubbed, o/w a VG tight copy in somewhat soiled, scuffed dj. More
NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, (1965). 8vo, pp. 114. Author's presentation on blank: " 1971 | Be At Peace, | Ronald Fair" Green cloth. Cover slightly rubbed at corners and ends of spine, o/w a nice copy in scuffed and chipped dj. The author's first book, a story in which..... More
NY: AMS, (1969). Reprint of 1933 Stokes edition. 8vo, pp. 327. jBlue cloth. Cover very slightly scuffed, edges slightly soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. Fauset was one of the first female African-American graduates of Cornel abd was a very influential critic and novelist of the Harlem Renaissance. She was..... More
Concord NH: Mercury Press, 1968. Periodical. Small 8vo, pp. 130. Paper wraps. Cover somewhat worn, and mended with tape at the spine, contents page chipped, o/w VG. Pieces by Piers Anthony, Brian Cleeve, Isaac Asimov, K. M. O'Donnell, and a review by Samuel R. Delany and Ed Emshwiller on "2001..... More
NY: Free Press, (1983). First printing. 8vo, pp. xxiii, 250. Genealogical guide. Illustrated with several photographs. Brown paper over boards. Edges spotted, o/w a nice copy in little spotted dj. Fields, born in Charleston SC in 1888, tells of her warm family lilfe growing up in segregationist South, and her..... More
Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina, (1981). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xii, 378. Bibliography, index of cases, index. [Series: Studies in legal history.] Top edge lightly spotted, o/w a nice copy in dj. An exploration of the legal and constitutional problems that arose when slaves were taken into free..... More
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1985. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xxviii, 312. Appendix of British cases, selected bibliography of secondary sources, index. Illustrated with portraits and facsimiles. Top edge and cover slightly spotted, o/w a nice tight copy. More
NY: Citadel Press, (1948). 8vo, pp. 278. Illustrated by Jules Halfant. Some writing in margins, dj badly damaged, o/w a good tight copy. The author looks at the place of jazz in the world's music, hoping to break down the barriers between jazz and "concert music." More
Columbia MO: University of Missouri, 1987. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xxxix, 196. Frontis portrait. Purple cloth. Edges somewhat spotted, o/w a nice copy in dj. Fisher was a member of the "Harlem Renaissance." More
Cambridge MA: Harvard, (1968). Second printing. 8vo, pp. xxxix, 264. Edited by C. Vann Woodward. A nice copy in slightly soiled dj. Fitzhugh used socialist doctrine to defend slavery and was a critic of laissez-faire economy and "wage slavery." He stated that it was the duty of society to protect..... More
Urbana IL: University of Illlinois, (1972). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xiv, 478. Bibliography, index. Brown cloth. Top edges spotted, o/w a VG tight copy in scuffed, little soiled and chipped dj. A discussion of the close connection of the British and US struggles against slavery. More
Natchez: Jackson Warner, et. al. 1852. First Edition, 4th thousand. 8vo, pp. xiv, 637. Bound in publisher's sheep (front hinge repaired), little foxed but a good copy. Sabin 24729; Work page 315; Afro-Americana 3705. An exhaustive pro-slavery work based largely on religious sources. More
NY: Random House, (1983). First edition, review slip laid in. 8vo, pp. 296. Paper over boards wtih cloth spine. A nice copy in scuffed and slightly soiled dj. A novel. The story of a 91 year old woman, Sweetie Reed, from slavery to freedom. More
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1983). First printing. 8vo, pp. xii, 322. Index. Illustrated with many photographs. Ex library, with stamps and bookplate; pocket removed. A VG tight copy in dj. More
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2005). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xi, 401. Index. Illustrated with photographs. About as new in dj. Fron the dj: "The twentieth century fight for civil rights told in the first person singular by a preeminent American historian." Franklin was a history professor at Duke UNiversity..... More
NY: Oxford, 2006. First printing. Small 8vo, pp. 286. Appendices, index. Illustrated. Paper over boards. A nice copy in little scuffed and chipped dj. More
Middletown CT: Wesleyan, (1988). First Edition. 8vo, pp. viii, 310.Notes, index. A little underlilning and marking in text, o/w a nice copy in somewhat scuffed dj. More
NY: Power House, (2005). Second printing. Square 8vo, pp. not numbered. Color photos of Nicky and his famous jazz-artist friends, with a simple story in large type. Illustrated paper over boards. A nice copy in price-clipped and little soiled dj. A picture book. More
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2007). First printing. 8vo, pp. xxv, 450. Notes, bibliography, sources, index. Illustrated. Fine in dj. The story of the Underground Railway, and of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, slaves who escaped to Canada. Coming from Louisville, they had been apprehended in Michigan, but Detroit's black community..... More
Middletown CT: Wesleyan University, (1971). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 113. Sources. Several illustrations. Leaves little moisture-rippled at bottom, o/w a nice copy in lightly chipped and stained dj. Crandall ran a school for girls in Canterbury CT. She accepted a black student; her white students were then withdrawn; Crandall decided..... More
Middletown CT: Wesleyan, (1971). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 113. Sources. With several illustrations. Blue cloth. Owner's name on flyleaf. Top edges little spotted, o/w a VG tight copy in little scuffed and soiled dj. Crandall accepted Black girls at her Canterbury school; she and the school were eventually driven out..... More
Bloomington IN: Indiana University, (2004). First printing. 8vo, pp. xlii, 552. Sources, list of award-winning short fiction, checklist of common issues, topics and plots, author bios, index. Pictorial paper over boards. Remiander mark on bottom, cover little scuffed, o/w a nice copy. More