New York: Julian Messner, 1957. The story of the bible-toting slave who became a legendary outlaw of the far north.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Discussions on subjects ranging from folklore, influence of other writers, family, books into film, etc. Photographs, index. 140 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-15894.

New York: Crown, 1994. Memoir by an award-winning Washington Post repeorter. Author's first book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition - The distinguished scholar's recollection of his boyhood in West Virginia in the 1950s and '60s. 216 pp

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition - The distinguished scholar's recollection of his boyhood in West Virginia in the 1950s and '60s. 216 pp

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Covers the period from 1963-94. Each section of essays is preceded by a brief chronological listing of highlights (good and bad) during the period. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0171200.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Covers the period from 1963-94. Each section of essays is preceded by a brief chronological listing of highlights (good and bad) during the period. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0171200.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1986). "Set against the background of the antebellum slave trade, Drums and Shadows traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks living on the Georgia coast in the 1930s. In the later years of the depression, members of the Georgia Writers' Project visited and interviewed blacks, many of whose grandparents, smuggled into slavery as late as 1858, had passed on the customs and beliefs of their African past." A facsimile reprint of the 1940 first edition, with photographs by Muriel Bell and Malcolm Bell Jr. and an introduction by Charles Joyner. Photographs. Glossary, list of informants. bibliography, index. xliv, 274 pp. ISBN: 0-82030851X.

New York: Free Press (Macmillan), 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of 350 years of the history of African Americans and how their treatment has affected democracy in the US. Brief list of sources, 339 pages. Rather uncommon in the hardcover first edition.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The African American activist and comedian takes on elections in the US with double-edged humor - a book perhaps even more timely now than when it was written. Includes a literacy test, a do-it-yourself acceptance speech, a poll, a glossary and more. Illustrated. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0116013.

New York: Pocket Books, (1965.). Classic autobiography by the black activist, comedian and actor. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. 209 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An insider's account of what really happened behind the closed doors of the Oval Office, the Justice Department, and the U.S. Senate, when Lani Guinier's nomination by Clinton for the post of Assistant Attorney General raised a storm of controvery on the Right. As well as being in part a memoir, this offers insightful look at the past, present, and future of civil rights in America. Sources, index. 335 pp. ISBN: 0-684-811456.

Stevensville, Montana: Stoneydale Press, (2000). First edition - Told in the first person, and written for older children, this is an account of the life and times of York, the personal slave of William Clark and the only black member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. On their return, York did not receive his promised freedom until over a year later, and his attempt to start a freight business was unsuccessful. According to this account, he returned to St Louis and earned passage on a steamship to the mouth of the Little Big Horn River, where he married a Crow Indian, and lived the rest of his life among them, as an honored leader. Illustrated. Foreword by Huil Willis. 61 pp. ISBN: 0-912299932.

New York: Pantheon, 1976. Hardcover first edition - A n extensively researched study showing the strength of African American family ties. Charles Silberman called it "a monumental volume that makes obsolete almost everything that has been written or said about the black experience in the United States." Includes many family trees, several appendices, notes, index.

New York: Vintage Books, 1981. Ordinary black Americans talk frankly about their lives and what it means to be black in America. Glossary. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-394-747135.

New York: Random House, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Book by the African American anthropologist best known as the author 'Drylongso.' Unlike that book, which focused on the black American experience, this includes conversations with Americans of all races and all walks of life, involved in many forms of dissent from a Unitarian minister in Massachusetts who sets up a chapter of Sanctuary to a white woman bus driver who drove the whole busload of pot-smoking teenagers to the police station to a woman trying to uncover the truth of her father's death after he had been subjected by the Army to unauthorized chemical experiments. Photographs. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-394-527259.

New York: Random House, (1977). First edition - Large trade paperback containing selected readings based on "Roots." Includes a foreword by Alex Haley and selections from Du Bois, Philip D. Curtin, Frederick Douglas, Margaret Just Butcher, Eric Williams and many others. Maps and illustrations at the head of each chapter, notes at the end of the chapters. xxii, 386 pgs. ISBN: 0-394320778.

New York: Random House, (1977). First edition - Large trade paperback containing selected readings based on "Roots." Includes a foreword by Alex Haley and selections from Du Bois, Philip D. Curtin, Frederick Douglas, Margaret Just Butcher, Eric Williams and many others. Maps and illustrations at the head of each chapter, notes at the end of the chapters. xxii, 386 pgs. ISBN: 0-394320778.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. dj. Opinions by this conservative black radio commentator.

Austin, TX: Steck-Vaughan Co., 1968. dj. Hardcover - Facsimile edition of the 1913 biography of Cuney, a local politician and black leader in Texas from 1870-1898. Written by his daughter. 230 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993). dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a young writer's trip South on a motorcycle, "to find my roots." By the author of "Mississippi Solo" and "Native Stranger". A combination of travel writing and an exploration of race in America, then and now. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671-748963.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993). dj. Hardcover - An account of a young writer's trip South on a motorcycle, "to find my roots." By the author of "Mississippi Solo" and "Native Stranger". A combination of travel writing and an exploration of race in America, then and now. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671-748963.

New York: Henry Holt, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's fourth book - a revisiting of the Harlem during several eras: in its early days as a pastoral suburb; during the Harlem Renaissance of the 20's, and in its decline into a symbol of urban despair. Small octavo. 276 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-4851-0.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992.). First edition - A rather unexpected account of the author's year long journey in search of himself in Africa, the land of his ancestors. 230 pp.

New York: Vantage Press Inc. (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of a woman who was the daughter of a black numbers banker in Harlem in the 1920's, who became the highest ranking woman at NASA. Includes a tribute to the heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen and a first hand account of the Freeman Field Incident where 101 black flying officers were arrested and charged with mutiny. She also tells of her son's struggle with AIDS and of her personal accomplishments and disappointments. Photographs. 346 pp with notes. ISBN: 0-533-088828.

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the effects of lynching, burning, castrating, raping, and mutilating black people on the literary work of black men and women writers since 1853, from Charles Chesnutt to Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison and others. Notes, Bibliography and Index. 222 pp. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. ISBN: 0-253-319951.

New York: Harper Collins, (1993). Traces the history from the early slave music, through the Black Renaissance, the rise of jazz and rhythm and blues to the contemporary scene by focusing on musicians in each era. Illustrated with photographs. Selected bibliography, index. 198 pp. ISBN: 0-06-446136X.

New York: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this civil rights activist, clergyman, legislator, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Photographs, index. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-688418961.