Ft. Bragg, CA: QED Press, 1994. First edition - Winner of the 1994 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. "His manuscripts were destroyed, his typewriter seized, his life threatened, but Jerome Washington wouldn't stop writing." Vietnam veteran (a medic from 1960-62), anti-war activist and writer, Washington was imprisoned in Attica and Green Haven for over 16 years - from 1972 to 1989. 159 pp.

New York: Vintage Books, (1995). SIGNED - Winner of the 1994 Western States Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. "His manuscripts were destroyed, his typewriter seized, his life threatened, but Jerome Washington wouldn't stop writing." Vietnam veteran (a medic from 1960-62), anti-war activist and writer, Washington was imprisoned in Attica and Green Haven for over 16 years - from 1972 to 1989. SIGNED on the first page. Index of named places. 166 pp. ISBN: 0-679-764054.

Boston: Beacon, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a review of the historical data and myths regarding interracial marriages and presents the conclusions that more such marriages would be good for America. Notes, index. 358 pages. ISBN: 0-8070-41726.

New York: New Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The first book to present the views of leading African American judges on the way our judicial system works. From pioneers such as Leon Higginbotham and Constance Baker Motley (the first black female federal judge) to such outspoken and well-known mavericks as Bruce Wright, the testimony of these judges provides penetrating analysis of the role of the jurist, of the daily malfunctioning of the courts, and of the future of the judicial system itself." They expose many of the injustices of our current system. xxiv, 265 pp. ISBN: 1-565841042.

Washington, D.C.: Oct, 1972. First edition - Illustrations, graphs & maps and notes. 214 pgs.

Chicago: Path Press, Inc. 1987. Hardcover first edition - Although this book includes a brief history of the African American press from its' start in 1827, much of the material is based on the author's long career in journalism. Introduction by St. Clair Drake. 520 pgs, index.

New York: Harper & Row, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American actress and singer's second autobiography, focusing on her later and more spiritual years. Illustrated with photographs (including several of the young Waters by Carl Van Vechten). introduction by Eugenia Price and Joyce Blackburn. Dust jacket praise by Dale Evans Rogers. Printed signature and inscription on title page (often mistaken for the real thing.) Editor's note on the 'performance highlights' of her career. 162 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972.). African American actress and singer's second autobiography, focusing on her later and more spiritual years. Illustrated with photographs (including several of the young Waters by Carl Van Vechten). introduction by Eugenia Price and Joyce Blackburn. Dust jacket praise by Dale Evans Rogers. Facsimile signature and inscription on title page (often mistaken for the real thing.) Editor's note on the 'performance highlights' of her career. 162 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American actress and singer's second autobiography, focusing on her later and more spiritual years. Illustrated with photographs (including several of the young Waters by Carl Van Vechten). introduction by Eugenia Price and Joyce Blackburn. Dust jacket praise by Dale Evans Rogers. Printed signature and inscription on title page (often mistaken for the real thing.) Editor's note on the 'performance highlights' of her career. 162 pp.

Philadelphia: JDC Books, (199). SIGNED - Biography of growing up in a segregated America by this educator, foundation head and activist. Illustrated with photographs. 265 pp,

New York: Random House, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The title page indicates that this is a 'special limited edition of the friends of MS magazine, with a facsimile signature at the bottom. Autobiography of the daughter of a black female fundamentalist preacher who went on to become not only the first African American president of Planned Parenthood, but the first woman to head it since Margaret Sanger founded the organization in 1916. Errata slip laid in. 489 pages. ISBN: 0-345-392655.

New York: Random House, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The title page indicates that this is a 'special limited edition of the friends of MS magazine, with a printed signature at the bottom. Autobiography of the daughter of a black female fundamentalist preacher who went on to become not only the first African American president of Planned Parenthood, but the first woman to head it since Margaret Sanger founded the organization in 1916. Errata slip laid in. 489 pages. ISBN: 0-345-392655.

New York: Kensington, 2004. SIGNED first edition - New novel about family relationships and conflicts by this #1 'Essence' best-selling author, who is also a bookseller. Introduces the Duncan family.

Boulder, CO: Fiction Collective, 1994. First edition - The author's first published work of fiction - winner of the 1994 Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award. Praise from Charles Johnson and Nikki Giovanni. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-932511899.

Boulder, CO: Fiction Collective, 1994. SIGNED first edition - The author's first published work of fiction - winner of the 1994 Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award. Praise from Charles Johnson and Nikki Giovanni. SIGNED by author on title page and dated 4/22/95. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-932511899.

New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a postscript by James Earl Ray, and an appendix of "new and suppressed evidence."

New York & Philadelphia: M. Evans / Lippincott, (1970) dj. Hardcover - A look at the achievements of Black Americans going back to the early 1600s when the first ship bearing slaves arrived. Illustrated with photographs by Bob Adelman. Bibliography, index. 192 pp.

New York: Avon, 1999. Romantic novel by this African American mystery writer.

New York: Morrow, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Romantic novel by this African American mystery writer. ISBN: 0-06-0188839.

Boston: Beacon, 1993. dj. Hardcover - Addresses some of the most urgent issues for today's black Americans - from discrimination to despair, on leadership and the legacy of Malcolm X - a slim book at 105 pp. but an important one. ISBN: 0-8070-09180.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. A novel - the first in 26 years - by one of the last surviving writers of the Harlem Renaissance. ISBN: 0-385-471432.

New York: Doubleday, 1996. A novel - the first in 26 years - by one of the last surviving writers of the Harlem Renaissance. ISBN: 0-385-471440.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel - the first in 26 years - by one of the last surviving writers of the Harlem Renaissance. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471432.

New York: Doubleday, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of stories (including her first short story "The Typewriter" which took second prize in a writing contest when she was only 17) and autobiographical essays, selected and introduced by the author - the last living writer from the days of the Harlem Renaissance. Preface by Mary Helen Washington. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471459.

New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969. Hardcover - West's first novel originally published in 1948. Although she was born in Boston, and lived most of her life on Martha's Vineyard, she worked in New York City during the Depression and is associated with the Harlem Renaissance, both through her association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the movement, as well as editing the significant but short-lived quarterly literary journals - Challenge in 1934 and The New Challenge in 1937. New introduction by William H. Robinson. A title in "The American Negro, His History and Literature" series. A relatively early publication that called attention to West and surprisingly uncommon. 347 pp.

New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Facsimile reprint of a work originally published in 1861. An indictment of the mission for its refusal to condemn slavery - 'this last unequivocal and emphatic uplifting of the voice of the Board on behalf of slavery will help many Christians to realize how far different is its teaching from the Gospel of Christ.' 45 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel, a story "driven by strong characters who aren't afraid to speak their minds." 297 pp. ISBN: 0-684-844915.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Hardcover first edition - The second novel by this civil rights activist and head of the NAACP for many years, the story of a woman who initially passes for white, then re-embraces her racial identity (In his autobiography, White said ""I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me." so he also could have easily passed for white; instead he used his appearance for undercover investigation of lynchings in the South.) 300 pp plus colophon and 3 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Highly praised debut novel. Although this can be simply described as a story of elevator inspectors, it has caused Whitehead to be compared to writers from Ralph Ellison to P. K. Dick and Thomas Pynchon. SIGNED on the title page.