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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York: Collier Books, 1970. A classic account of the African American heritage from pre-colonial exploration through World War I, originally published in 1921. Includes a new introduction by C. Eric Lincoln. Select bibliography, index. 420 pages.

New York: Random House, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - In this book, Bray uses her personal history to "defend America's much-maligned welfare system. A smart black girl from the Chicago slums didn't have much chance of going to Yale or becoming an editor at the New York Times Book Review before Aid to Families with Dependent Children helped Rosemary's selfless mother make ends meet and keep Rosemary in school. Bray's account of her progress is both inspiring and despairing, as she criticizes the welfare 'reforms' that closed to others doors that were opened for her." Praise from Alice Walker, James McBride and others. xvii, 282 pp. ISBN: 0-679425551.

New York: Vintage International, (2013.). First edition - A Vintage Original. Novel set in 1832, the year before slavery is abolished in South Africa. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master, and when Francois is going to marry a white woman, and Philida is about to be sold, she decides to risk her whole life by lodging a complaint against Francois. Based on the real story of a slave woman determined to take control of her own life, for better or for worse. Finalist for the Man Booker Award. 310 pp. Advance Readers Copy sticker on back cover.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1970). A study based on a nationwide survey by Newsweek Magazine, one which the results posted in the author's 1963 book 'The Negro Revolution in America.' This looks at the internal dissension within the Civil Rights movement, the rising white backlash and how much progress has been made and how much still needs to be made - questions we are still debating 50 years later. Includes the questionnaires used in the polling as well as detailed results. Index. 285 pages.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. dj. Hardcover - A study based on a nationwide survey by Newsweek Magazine, which attempts to answer the questions what Negroes want, why and how they are fighting, whom they support, and what whites think of them and their demands. Index. 249 pages.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. dj. Hardcover - A study based on a nationwide survey by Newsweek Magazine, which attempts to answer the questions what Negroes want, why and how they are fighting, whom they support, and what whites think of them and their demands. Index. 249 pages.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's second novel, set in the 1970's during the era of the fight for civil rights. ISBN: 0-06-017277-0.

New York: HarperCollins, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - INSCRIBED on the half title page "to Joe, Live your dreams" and dated in 1996. African American author's first novel, the story of 3 sisters who live in the same city - Washington, D. C. - but in very different worlds. ISBN: 0-06-0171162.

New York: HarperCollins, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel, the story of 3 sisters who live in the same city - Washington, D. C. - but in very different worlds. ISBN: 0-06-0171162.

New York: HarperCollins, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's first novel, the story of 3 sisters who live in the same city - Washington, D. C. - but in very different worlds. ISBN: 0-06-0171162.

New York: HarperCollins, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American author's second novel, set in the 1970's during the era of the fight for civil rights. ISBN: 0-06-017277-0.

New York: Harper Collins, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set during the days of slavery and afterwards, this is a multi-generational novel of the lives of three African American women, born and raised as house slaves at Montpelier, the Virginia plantation of James Madison and his wife Dolley. Based on the life of the author's great-great grandmother. 348 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0172789.

Chicago: The Black Position Press. (1980.). SIGNED first edition - Very uncommon first publication of this slim chapbook containing 'Three Preachments' - the title poem, a poem 'To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals' and a prose piece 'Requiem Before Revival.' INSCRIBED on the first page by Brooks. 15 pp.

Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. BrooksÕ development as a poet from childhood to 1978. Written by Kent, a literature professor who spent over 10 years interviewing Brooks and her family. Published after KentÕs death with an afterword by D.H. Melham outlining BrooksÕ career to 1988. 264pp plus notes, index. ISBN: 0-8131-08276.

New York: Kensington, (2000). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Covers Christmas, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, New Year's, Mardi Gras as well as birthdays and family get-togethers, with contributions of memories or recipes from more than 50 African-American women, including Myrna Williams, Patricia Russell McCloud, Mrs. Denzel Washington, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Synthia Saint James and many others. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs. List of resources, bibliography and index. Square format. 244 pp. ISBN: 1-55972532X.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir of a Southern childhood (in the small farming village of Bolson, North Carolina) by this African American novelist, and of his struggle to free himself from his family's violent history. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author "Thanks for the inspiration for this book." and dated in 1994. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-2935.

Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir of a Southern childhood (in the small farming village of Bolson, North Carolina) by this African American novelist, and of his struggle to free himself from his family's violent history. SIGNED by the author. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-88001-2935.

New York: Macmillan, (1965.) dj. Hardcover - Although this autobiography of growing up poor and Black in Harlem is now a classic at the time it was written, when Brown was still a young writer, just barely out of Harlem, it was a revolutionary and enlightening book. His goal was to "talk about the first Northern urban generation of Negroes... to talk about the experience of a misplaced generation, of a misplaced people in an extremely complex, confused society." . 415 pp.