- Keyword = African American Literature, African American History and Nonfiction, African Literature, Slavery Abolition Reconstruction, Civil Rights / Black Power Movements
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BUILDING AN ANTISLAVERY WALL: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitonist Movement, 1830-1860
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first full-scale study of the role African Americans played in building support for abolition in Great Britain - among those who travelled and spoke frequently were Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, the Crafts, Martin Delany, and others. Many were fugitive slaves lecturing on their experiences; others came to study at British universities, including Jesse Glasgow and McCune Smith. Bibliography, index. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-10825.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 26733More details Price: $30.00 -
BUILDING AN ANTISLAVERY WALL: Black Americans in the Atlantic Abolitonist Movement, 1830-1860
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Cornell University Press, 1989. The first full-scale study of the role African Americans played in building support for abolition in Great Britain - among those who travelled and spoke frequently were Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, the Crafts, Martin Delany, and others. Many were fugitive slaves lecturing on their experiences; others came to study at British universities, including Jesse Glasgow and McCune Smith. Bibliography, index.
Condition: Very good plus in wrappers (some scattered highlighting and marginal notes.)
Book ID: 9625More details Price: $14.50 -
BEATING AGAINST THE BARRIERS: The Lives of Six Nineteenth-Century Afro-Americans.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Cornell University Press, (1989). Studies of six African American abolitionists all of whom persevered in the face of staggering oppresion: the fugitive slave Revered James W.C. Pennington, church leader and anti-slavery orator, recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Heidelberg; former Georgia slaves William and Ellen Craft who spent 19 years in exile as part of the British abolitionist movement; Jamaican born Robert Campbell, editor, author and businessman; North Carolina slave John Sella Martin, who was sold several times before escaping to the North; and New York born William Howard Day, newpaper publisher, political organizer and educator. Illustrated. Selected bibliography. Index. xviii, 417 pp. ISBN: 0-801496756.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 85720More details Price: $25.00 -
CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN NEGRO: A Documentary History.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Trident Press, 1968.. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes over 100 documents covering more than 3 centuries, from slavery through the modern fight for civil rights. Among the documents are the Massachusetts Body of Liberites, early protests of the Germantown Mennonites, the constitution of Alabama, the Fugitive Slave Act, Nat Turner's 'confession' , writings by W. E. B. DuBois, Stokely Carmicheal and Martin Luther King, the Gavagan Antilynching bill and much more. 671 pages, including index.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dj.
Book ID: 21475More details Price: $22.00 -
A SLAVE NO MORE: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007.). SIGNED first edition - The stories of Wallace Tunbridge (1846-1916) who was born in South Carolina nd spent his adult life in New York City and Jersey City and of John Washington (1838-1918) born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, who worked as a painter in Washington DC after his escape and retired to Cohasset, Massachusetts - two "ordinary men" with extraordinary stories. Includes diary excerpts from their actual stories of escape and freedom. 16 pages of black and white photographs. SIGNED on the title page. Blight received the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2019. Notes. 299 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (a new copy.)
Book ID: 51899More details Price: $35.00 -
KING KONG: An African Jazz Opera.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
Condition: Near Fine in white pictorial wraps with red & black lettering (an export edition with the price on the front cover replaced with 2 small red triangles)
Book ID: 88617More details Price: $35.00 -
THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT AND RECONSTRUCTION: A Study of Anglo-American Co-operation 1833-1877.
Edition: First printing.
London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Hardcover first edition - An examination of the early history of the British anti-slavery movement, the attitudes of Britons in general to the Jamaica revolt of 1865 and to Reconstruction, but especially a study of how for 5 years, from 1863-68, the anti-slavery movement in England found a new cause and a new lease of life in the needs of the four million Negroes freed by the Civil War. 197 pgs, selected bibliography, index.
Condition: NF/NF (pc.)
Book ID: 8800More details Price: $30.00 -
GAL: A True Life.
Edition: Uncorrected proof for the first UK edition of this title - a paperback original there.
London: Penguin, nd. First edition - The story of a young black girl, abandoned by her 13 year old mother, raised by her grandparents until the day she witnessed her stepgrandfather beat her grandmother to death - and ultimately the story of her survival and her courage.
Condition: Very good in stiff wrappers.
Book ID: 15341More details Price: $12.00 -
GAL: A True Life.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. dj. Hardcover - The story of a young black girl, abandoned by her 13 year old mother, raised by her grandparents until the day she witnessed her stepgrandfather beat her grandmother to death - and ultimately the story of her survival and her courage. Foreword by Josephine Humphreys. ISBN: 0-15-1001049.
Condition: Very near fine in a good only dustjacket (edgewear, creasing to dj.)
Book ID: 15578More details Price: $12.50 -
GAL: A True Life.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young black girl, abandoned by her 13 year old mother, raised by her grandparents until the day she witnessed her stepgrandfather beat her grandmother to death - and ultimately the story of her survival and her courage. Foreword by Josephine Humphreys. ISBN: 0-15-1001049.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (bookplate, corners of book slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 20593More details Price: $18.00 -
GAL: A True Life.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young black girl, abandoned by her 13 year old mother, raised by her grandparents until the day she witnessed her stepgrandfather beat her grandmother to death - and ultimately the story of her survival and her courage. Foreword by Josephine Humphreys. ISBN: 0-15-1001049.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 17633More details Price: $25.00 -
BLACK THUNDER: Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia 1800.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Boston: Beacon, 1968. Novel originally written in 1936, the true story of a slave insurrection which failed. Includes a new and interesting introduction by the author. xv, 224 pp.
Condition: Good in stiff illustrated wrappers (some wear to the covers, contents clean).
Book ID: 41294More details Price: $10.00 -
DRUMS AT DUSK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1939. Hardcover first edition - The third novel by this writer closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, although at the time this was written he was living in Chicago, where he was also influential in the Chicago Renaissance. Set in Saint Domingue in 1791 at the beginning of the Haitian rebellion, this focuses on the white, privileged people of French descent rather than on Toussaint L'Overture, the leader of the revolution. At the end, Toussaint is instrumental in helping his friend, the young French hero, Diron, escape with Celeste, the girl he loves. 226 pp. Surprisingly uncommon in the first edition.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with red endpapers (some toning to the pages, rubbing to the lettering on the spine, but a tight and straight copy).
Book ID: 88903More details Price: $125.00 -
THEY SEEK A CITY.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1945. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of African American migration within the United States, from the Underground Railroad in pre-civil war days, to the years following the Emancipation when newly freed slaves headed north and west, and during World War I when there was a labor shortage in the factories of the North and continuing up until the time this book was written. SIGNED on the front endpaper by both authors and inscribed by Conroy ' For my friend Gloria Freidman with the best of wishes" and dated 10/12/45 and underneath this appears 'and also those of' and the signature of Bontemps. References, index. 266 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in a fair only copy of the uncommon dustjacket (loss of approx 1 inch at upper corner of dj at fold, some loss of paper ranging from 1/4 inch to 1 inch at top of spine, and affecting the 'y' in 'they', rubbing, general edgewear) . An inexpensively produced book due to wartime restrictions, and uncommon in dj and especially so signed by both authors.
Book ID: 20096More details Price: $375.00 -
CAVALCADE OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO.
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Chicago: Diamond Jubilee Exposition Authority, 1940. First edition - A product of the Depression WPA, this short work (90 pp.) is the partial compilation of information collected for the American Negro Exposition. Contributors include Fenton Johnson, Henry Bacon and others. Frontispiece by Adrian Troy. Printed on gray antique offset paper made specially for this book. Neither Bontemps nor the writers whose work is included are credited.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated printed wrappers.
Book ID: 5517More details Price: $75.00 -
BOUND FOR CANAAN: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.
Book ID: 67056More details Price: $20.00 -
IBO LANDING: An Offering of Short Stories
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Brooklyn: Cool Grove Press. 1998. First edition - First collection of short stories by this African American poet, described as a "celebratory testiment to the South's unbroken links to West Africa through Gullah ancestory and the heritage of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 11130More details Price: $14.00 -
THE CHANEYSVILLE INCIDENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's 2nd novel, the story of a man's obsession with uncovering the truths about the history of his family - including the deaths of his slave great-grandfather and his moonshining father - and the rural Pennsylvania town they lived in. 432 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0104910.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 19669More details Price: $30.00 -
RAINBOW ROUN MAH SHOULDER.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Chapel Hill, NC: Carolina Wren Press, 1984. First edition - The author's first prize-winning novel (following a book of poetry), the story of the self-discovery of a black woman in the South from 1915-1954. Published in an edition of only 1000 copies. Cover praise from Nikki Giovanni among others. ISBN: 0-932112-20x.
Condition: Fair condition overall in illustrated wrappers (front cover is in poor condition with significant creasing and wear)
Book ID: 74201More details Price: $10.00 -
RATZ ARE NICE (PSP)
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82891More details Price: $150.00 -
PARTING THE WATERS, AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1954-63.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover - INSCRIBED on the first blank page and dated in 1989. Uncommon signed. A comprehensive guide to the early years of the civil rights movement, meticulously researched. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Notes, index. 1064 pp plus photographic plates. ISBN: 0-671-460978.
Condition: Just about fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 36282More details Price: $75.00 -
PARTING THE WATERS, AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1954-63.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A comprehensive guide to the early years of the civil rights movement, meticulously researched. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Notes, index. 1064 pp plus photographic plates. ISBN: 0-671-460978.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. A massive book (over 1000 pgs) with many pages of photographs.
Book ID: 37151More details Price: $60.00 -
PILLAR OF FIRE: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1963-65.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 73405More details Price: $25.00 -
PILLAR OF FIRE: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1963-65.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62275More details Price: $30.00 -
PILLAR OF FIRE: AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1963-65.
Edition: Full size book club edition.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - A continuation of Branch's Pulitzer Prize-winning history, 'Parting the Waters.' The second volume in his monumental and definitive trilogy on the history of America during the Martin Luther King era and the Civil Rights revolution. Covers the end of segregation, the jailing of King, and rifts in the non-violent movement; among the leaders during this era were Malcolm X, Diane Nash, Abraham Heschel, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou Hamer and others. Photographs, extensive notes, index. 746 pp. ISBN: 0-684-808196.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60349More details Price: $20.00 -
PARTING THE WATERS, AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1954-63.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive guide to the early years of the civil rights movement, meticulously researched. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Notes, index. 1064 pp plus photographic plates. ISBN: 0-671-460978.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped). A massive book, and rather uncommon in the hardcover first edition.
Book ID: 51188More details Price: $35.00 -
PARTING THE WATERS, AMERICA IN THE KING YEARS 1954-63.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. dj. Hardcover - The comprehensive guide to the early years of the civil rights movement., meticulously researched. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Notes, index. 1064 pp plus photographic plates. ISBN: 0-671-460978.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket (minor edgewear to dj). A massive book with many pages of photographs.
Book ID: 44036More details Price: $14.00 -
AT THE FULL AND CHANGE OF THE MOON.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Press, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly acclaimed novel by this Trinidadian-born poet and writer who now lives in Canada, and has been the recipient of the Governor-General's and other awards. The novel begins in Trinidad in 1824 with a secret society of slaves, headed by Marie Ursule, plotting a mass suicide as an act of revolt against slavery. ISBN: 0-8021-16493.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 19339More details Price: $18.00 -
AT THE FULL AND CHANGE OF THE MOON.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, 1999. Highly acclaimed novel by this Trinidadian-born poet and writer who now lives in Canada, and has been the recipient of the Governor-General's and other awards. The novel begins in Trinidad in 1824 with a secret society of slaves, headed by Marie Ursule, plotting a mass suicide as an act of revolt against slavery.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 22856More details Price: $20.00 -
DAEDULUS: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 103, #2
Boston: Spring 1974`. Issue on "SLAVERY, COLONIALISM AND RACISM" with contributions by the authors shown above and several others, including J. F. Ade, Ajayi, Nketia, Thomas Sowell, etc.
Condition: Near fine in printed green and white wrappers (crease on corner of rear cover.)
Book ID: 7281More details Price: $16.00