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THE WHITE NEGRO.
Edition: Later printing, a slim chapbook.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (c 1957). SIGNED - First separate appearance of an article originally published in "Dissent." "Superficial reflections on the hipster" with comments by Jean Malaquais and Ned Polsky followed by Mailer's responses. SIGNED on the title page. Later printing or issue with cover price (on back cover) of $1.00 cents (first printing had a cover price of 35 cents). Unpaginated (32 pp including title page and 1 pp publisher's list of titles) Cover with photograph by Harry Redl of a face in negative.
Condition: Very good in stapled illustrated wrappers (some toning to back cover)
Book ID: 88089More details Price: $120.00 -
COLOR AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good+ (some offsetting and toning to the endpapers) in black cloth with gilt lettering, in a fair only example of the rather scarce dust jacket. (loss of approximately 1 1/2 inches at top of dj spine, 1/2 inch at bottom, other chips and edgewear)
Book ID: 66202More details Price: $125.00 -
THE RULE OF RACIALIZATION: Class, Identity, Governance.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Fine in glossy wrappers, slightly oversized.
Book ID: 79377More details Price: $35.00 -
AND DON'T CALL ME A RACIST: A Treasury of Quotes on the Past, Present, and Future of the Color Line in America.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Lexington, MA: Argonaut Press (1998). Includes more than 1,000 quotes from Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Lillian Smith, Arthur Ashe, Studs Terkel, and hundreds of others, on what it means to be black in the United States. Square format. Includes an index of the sources and another of the people being quoted. 164 pp.
Condition: Near fine in yellow and white wrappers.
Book ID: 67838More details Price: $12.50 -
DEMOCRACY AND RACE FRICTION: A Study in Social Ethics.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1914. Hardcover first edition - Although Mecklin begins the preface by stating his belief that the "race question" is insoluble, he goes on to discuss the underlying causes of race friction- the basis of social solidarity, race traits, the Negro and his social heritage, race-prejudice, the philosophy of the color line, equality before the law and more. Index. x, 273 pp plus 5 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (missing front endpaper, but otherwise tight and clean)
Book ID: 87987More details Price: $45.00 -
STATEMENT ON RACE: An Extended Discussion in Plain Language of the UNESCO Statement by Experts on Race Problems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Schuman, (1951.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by author on front endpaper. Includes an Appendix with the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, references, bibliography, index. 172 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (chipping and wear to dj at ends of spine.)
Book ID: 34503More details Price: $60.00 -
THE CONCEPT OF RACE.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Free Press of Glencoe / Macmillan, (1964) dj. Hardcover - Ten scientists - including Jean Hiernaux, Lancelot Hogben, Paul Ehrlich, S.L. Washburn, and Montagu himself - attack the concept of race as a biologically unsound, socially invalid and prejudicial means of human classification. Maps, charts, references at the end of each essay. Glossary, index. xviii, 279 pp.
Condition: Near fine brick red cloth in very good dust jacket (short tear near top of spine, some rubbing to dj)
Book ID: 80118More details Price: $21.50 -
PRIMER FOR WHITE FOLKS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in gray cloth with gilt lettering in a very good dust jacket (chip to bottom of spine of dj)
Book ID: 87012More details Price: $65.00 -
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEGREGATIONIST THOUGHT.
Edition: Trade paperback - 3rd printing.
Homewood IL: Dorsey Press, (1969). "The first anthology of the literature of segregation and white supremacy. The readings span three-quarters of a century to reveal the nature, intensity, and tenacity of anti-Negro ideas and the reasons for them. " Among these articles are those by Robert Bennett Bean published in 1906 on "The Negro Brain" and Shaler on the permanence of racial characteristics, and others defending the South, calling on religion to support segregation, on the horror of interracial marriage and more. Even generally respected historians like Hubert Howe Bancroft did not hesitate to express opinions like "the freed African is a failure." Includes an epilogue of a rebuttal to the ideas and distortions in these collected pieces and a bibliographical essay. 177 pp
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 52969More details Price: $15.00 -
WHO'S AFRAID OF A LARGE BLACK MAN?
Edition: First printing.
New York: Penguin, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Former NBA star talks frankly and openly about race and racism and how it affected their lives, with interviewees ranging from students to KKK members, addressing such issues as interracial relationships, affirmative action, and racial stereotypes. Among those interviewed were Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, author Marita Golden, Tiger Woods, Samuel L. Jackson and many more. 236 pp. ISBN: 1-59420-042-4.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43501More details Price: $25.00 -
RACIAL PREJUDICE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - An examination of the vicious racial stereotypes which have affected tge treatment of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans from colonial times to the present. It analyzes the economic inequalities that continue to affect these minorities - hurting both them and the US as a whole - even after some of the most blatant discriminatory became a thing of the past. A title in the Issues in American History series. Photographs, suggestions for further reading, index. 118 pp. ISBN: 0-53110057X.
Condition: Ex-library in a sturdy library binding, with the usual markings and a few penciled notations in the margins, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket (spine label)
Book ID: 79064More details Price: $15.00 -
A CLASS DIVIDED.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - Rather uncommon first edition of this now classic experiment in discrimination, basis for a television show "The Eye of the Storm." After the assassination of Martin Luther King, an elementary school teacher in all white school in Iowa struggled to make her students understand what it might be like to be black, and she came up with the idea of dividing the class on the basis of eye color. One day those with blue eyes were on top, the next those with brown eyes. The experiment succeeded all too well. 126 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 79274More details Price: $18.50 -
CROSSING THE COLOR LINE: Race, Parenting and Culture.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 62508More details Price: $21.50 -
THE AMERICAN RACE PROBLEM: A Study of the Negro.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1927). Hardcover first edition - Topics include the Negro Population, racial differences; the health of the Negro, Negro Sex and Family Life, economic status of the Negro, education of the Negro, the growth of race consciousness; and more. A title in the Crowell's Social Science Series under the editorship of Seba Eldridge. index. xii, 448.
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine (some underlining and marginal notes, prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 55725More details Price: $24.00 -
ALIEN AMERICANS: A Study of Race Relations.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, 1936. Hardcover first edition - A study of Negro life and education, and of the American reaction to bi-racial situations in general, funded by the Julius Rosenwald foundation. The author, who had extensive experience with race relations in the Orient, had never visited the US before the trip during which he researched these issues. Among the chapters are the Chinese in California, Japanese in California, Mexicans and Indians, Negro education, etc. Bibliography, index. 208 pages.
Condition: Ex-library with signs of pocket removal, embossed stamp on title page, some soiling to cloth covers, but otherwise good condition.
Book ID: 27152More details Price: $20.00 -
LANGHORN AND MARY; A 19th Century American Love Story.
Edition: First printing.
Phoenix, AZ: Ambrosia Books, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fictionalized history of an interracial couple in Bucks County, PA, during the years from 1835-1865, a time of turmoil, abolitionist activity and the Civil War, written by a great grandniece. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. Excerpts from contempary newspaper articles are included throughout. References, index. xviii, 462 pp. ISBN: 0-972751904.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 70888More details Price: $35.00 -
A COUNTRY OF STRANGERS: Blacks and Whites in America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the front endpaper. A comprehensive look at how ordinary Americans see each other by this Pulitzer prize winning author. Included are discussions of the stereotypes and unconscious assumptions that permeate the thinking of most people, even the most unbiased, a look at the biculturalism of many black people who move back and forth between the white world and black world, of interracial families and much more. Notes, index. 607 pp. ISBN: 0-394-589750.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 47385More details Price: $35.00 -
EVOLUTION OF RACISM: The Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book by this award-winning scientist and author, which "combines a history of evolutionary theory with a study of its impact on ideas about race and racism to explain how the fear of making politically unacceptable discoveries has prevented scientists from honestly exploring human racial differences." Includes a discussion of the work of Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Ashley Montagu as well as less well-known but influential figures like Ernst Haeckel, the father of the eugenics movement and Carleton Coons who became the subject of a bitter academic feud. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the late noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens. Notes, Bibliography, Index. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-671754602.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82376More details Price: $35.00 -
ABOUT FACE: RACE IN POSTMODERN AMERICA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
New York: Autonomedia, 1989. First edition - Includes 27 pages of references. 247 pages. ISBN: 0-936756-357.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 21485More details Price: $10.00 -
INTER-RACIAL PROBLEMS: Papers from the First Universal Races Congress held in London in 1911.
Edition: First thus.
New York: The Citadel Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes a new 16 pp. introduction by Herbert Aptheker. Attended by 1000 people from 50 countries, the purpose of this Congress was "to discuss, in the light of science and the modern conscience, the general relations subsisting between the peoples of the West and those of the East, between the so-called white and so-called coloured peoples." Also discussed was the position of women in society, the nature of imperialism, and the prospects for world peace. Reprint of the 1911 edition, including papers by Felix Adler, Israel Zangwill, Alfred Caldecott, W. E. B. DuBois ('The Negro Race in the United States of America'), Edwin D. Mead, and many others. Appendix, bibliography, index. [16 pp], xlvi, 485 pp. ISBN: 0-806502177.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a good dust jacket with some rubbing, light edgewear and creasing to back cover.
Book ID: 88290More details Price: $40.00 -
WALL-EYED CAESAR'S GHOST and Other Sketches.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good in blue lettering (lettering rubbed off on spine, rubbing to front cover)
Book ID: 88778More details Price: $20.00 -
THE WHITE MINORITY: Pioneers for Racial Equality.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at a small number of white Americans who warned, over a 100 years ago, that if blacks were not treated equally with whites the entire nation would suffer. Focuses on three men: Southern novelist George Washington Cable, slaveowner and later Supreme Court Justice John Harlan, and novelist and Republican 'carpetbagger' Albion Tourgee. Illustrated with many vintage photographs. Written for young adults. Notes for further reading, index. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-152958770.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 34641More details Price: $20.00 -
J.W. THINKS BLACK: Volume Number Two in the John Wesley, Jr. Series.
Edition: Reprint.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in black cloth, no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 84202More details Price: $16.50 -
THE DECLINING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE: Blacks and Changing American Institutions.
Edition: Second edition, trade paperback.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (c 1980). Winner of the Sydney M. Spivak award. This edition includes a new essay by Wilson on the controversy surrounding this book when it was first published in 1978, and on the intersection of race, class and social policy. Extensive notes, index. xii, 249 pp. ISBN: 0-226901297.
Condition: Good overall - some scattered underlining, peeled spot on back cover from sticker removal.
Book ID: 77661More details Price: $10.00 -
BACKFIRE: A Reporter's Look at Affirmative Action.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (creasing to bottom edge of back cover of dj)
Book ID: 78804More details Price: $15.00