New York: Morrow, 1967. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Essays on young jazz musicians - including Coltrane, Monk, Archie Shepp, Ornette Coleman - written between 1959 to 1967. SIGNED on the dedication page by Baraka and dated in 1996. Photographs, discography, index. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-688-243444.

New York: Schirmer / Simon & Schuster, (1997). First edition - B.B. King remains perhaps the best-known blues musician, respected and loved by both the knowledgeable fan and the occasional listener. This book includes the best articles, interviews and reviews, written over a period of fifty years to give an inside look at this guitar playing, blues singing, Grammy Award-winning King of the Blues. Discography, bibliography, index. xviii, 300 pp. ISBN: 0-028646193.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Afro-Caribbean author's first novel (her second book), a coming of age story set in her native Antigua. INSCRIBED on title page. 148 pp. ISBN: 0-374-105219.

New York: Viking, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which celebrates a legendary African American jockey. "Using the jockey's 'perfect timing' as a framework, Trollinger begins with a serendipitous moment, when Murphy was 12, that started his career. . this focuses on Murphy's rigorous training and thrilling races, described in moment-by-moment detail.. . Lagarrigue's blurred, abstract acrylics, which, like memories or historical stories, only capture part of the picture." Includes historical information about African Americans in horse racing. Oblong format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-670060836.

San Francisco: Tachyon Publications, (2015). First edition - A collection of short fiction by this award-winning Jamaican-born author - "truly unique stories that are filled with striking imagery, unlikely beauty, and delightful strangeness. [She] continues to expand the boundaries of culture and imagination, retelling The Tempest as a new Caribbean myth, filling a shopping mall with unfulfilled ghosts, or herding chickens that occasionally breathe fire." 222 pp. ISBN: 978-1616961985.

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, (1991). First edition - The best work of this noted black Cvil Rights photographer, including his iconic photographs of police dogs and fire hoses being turned on demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 which became instant symbols of the black struggle for equality. Covers the civil rights movement in the South from 1958 to 1965 - Montgomery in 1958-1960, Oxford Mississippi in 1960, The Freedom March and Birmingham in 1963, the Ku Klux Klan in 1964-1965 and Selma in 1965. Preface by Charles Moore himself. Text by Michael S. Durham; Introduction by Andrew Young. Large format, printed on heavy glossy stock. Index. 208 pp. ISBN: 1-556702027.

New York: Freedomways Associates, 1972. First edition - Includes "Kwame Nkrumah: African Liberator" by Shirley Graham Du Bois; "African Perspectives: New dimensions of an Old Subject." by John Henrik Clarke; Internationalism in the Black Community" by Robert Rhodes; "The Afro-Asian Writers' Movement" by Akram Aminov; and more. Book reviews and a listing of recent books on Africa. Cover illustration by James Calvin. 180-264 pp.

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc, (1968, c 1967). A book which focuses on the positive implications of the Black Power movement by an author was an early freedom rider, active in CORE and chairman of 1967 National Black Power Conference. Notes, Index. 200 pp.

New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc, (1969, c 1967) dj. Hardcover - A book which focuses on the positive implications of the Black Power movement by an author was an early freedom rider, active in CORE and chairman of 1967 National Black Power Conference. Notes. Index. 200 pp.

New York: Sarah Crichton / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which focuses on the "chapter in life as characterized by people between fifty and seventy-five - who are considered 'neither young nor old.' . . a time when many women and men seem to be embracing new challenges and searching for greater meaning in life. Lawrence-Lightfoot challenges the still prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing the ways in which the years between fifty and seventy-five may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in our lives, tracing the ways in which wisdom, experience, and new learning inspire individual growth and cultural transformation." Notes, bibliography. 270 pp. ISBN: 978-0374275495.

New York: Scribner, 1933. First edition - In addition to the timely Langston Hughes story, about a white couple - an artist and musician - who consider themselves lovers of anything 'Negro,' this includes an article by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on floating down the St Johns River in Florida with only another woman as a companion. Also includes substantial articles on Hitler and the American Jews and on the inventor Thomas Edison, as well as other stories and poetry. pp 129-192 plus ads and features.

New York: Warner Books, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - First book in XENOGENESIS series by this award winning author, who was also a recipient of the MacArthur "genius" award for her work - the first science fiction writer to be so honored. Even now, years after her untimely death her reputation continues to grow. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-446-513636.

New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem / Abradale Press (Harry Abrams), (1994) dj. Hardcover - A reissue under the Abradale Press label of this beautifully produced book originally published in 1987, large format with 140 illustrations including 55 plates in full color. Included are the words of painters Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, and William H. Johnson, sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller and photographer James Van Der Zee and much more. Chronology of the Harlem Renaissance from 1919 to 1929, chronologies of the artists and an index. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-8109-10993.

Orange, VA: The Montpelier Foundation, (2010). A work originally published in 1865. Paul Jennings was an enslaved manservant of President James Madison (1751-1836) and afterwards of Daniel Webster, who purchased him from Mrs. Madison and freed him with the understanding he would be paid back. Jennings went on to work for the US government in Washington, D.C., was an active abolitionist and became a man of property, able to donate money to an aged and impoverished Dolly Madison, and to see his sons fought for the Union in the Civil War. 19 pp. Brief biography of Jennings on back cover.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1961) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this Trinidian-born African American. "Set in Trinidad, the novel brutally satirized the island's racial caste system and the entire social hierarchy the British had put in place. A Guardian review noted that Hercules 'animates an absurd milieu where skin color, hair texture, ethnic features, business acumen, respectability, and sometimes intelligence have to be carefully weighed before an individual can be given a social acceptability rating.' Named one of the five best first novels of the year by Newsweek magazine." (James M. Manheim) 212 pp.

New York: A & W Publishers, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - The inside story of TV news as covered by this Black veteran street reporter and anchorman of more then two decades, who was also a former Big Ten football star for the University of Wisconsin. .Illustrated with photographs. Index. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-894791036.

New York Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects writings by Olive Shreiner, a woman ahead of her time - born to missionary parents in South Africa in 1855, she became an advocate for women's rights, pacificism, and humanitarianism, despised slavery and abhored violence. She achieved literary fame with the 1883 publication of 'The Story Of An African Farm.' Edited and with a long and reflective introduction by Howard Thurman, Black American author, activist and theologian. INSCRIBED by Thurman on the title page and signed as "Howard." Scarce thus. xxxix, 198 pp. ISBN: 06-0680768.

New York Harper & Row, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Collects writings by Olive Shreiner, a woman ahead of her time - born to missionary parents in South Africa in 1855, she became an advocate for women's rights, pacificism, and humanitarianism, despised slavery and abhored violence. She achieved literary fame with the 1883 publication of 'The Story Of An African Farm.' Edited and with a long and reflective introduction by Howard Thurman, Black American author, activist and theologian. xxxix, 198 pp. ISBN: 06-0680768.

New York: Ballantine, (1995.). An expanded and updated edition of this book originally published in 1993 - a dispassionate and well-argued book on "America's deepest and most enduring division." Includes references, statistical sources and index. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-34593384.

Berkeley, CA & New York: University Of California Press / Russell Sage Foundation, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "brilliantly demonstrates how political power is disproportionately concentrated among the most advantaged segments of society and how the monetary, trade, and tax policies of recent years have deepened this power imbalance. Developing his earlier views on race in contemporary society, William Julius Wilson gives a simple, straightforward, and crucially important diagnosis of the problem of rising social inequality in the United States and details a set of recommendations for dealing with it." A title in the Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy Series. Notes, bibliography, index. 163 pp. ISBN: 0-520222261.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the trial and hanging of Nathaniel Gordon in New York in 1862 for trading in slaves - the only man in American history who was convicted of this crime. While slave trading had been a hanging offense for more than 40 years, he had no reason to fear hanging as it had never been enforced, but with the beginning of the Civil War, public opinion was changing. Illustrated with photographs. Notes and sources, bibliography, index. 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0743267274.

San Francisco: KQED Books, (1996). First edition - Foreword by Ed Bradley. A companion volume to the PBS series on the art of African-American cuisine with 110 recipes, accompanied by folklore and anecdotes that trace the history and contribution of African roots to American cookery. Illustrated in full color. TV tie-in. Episode descriptions, index. Square format. 192 pp. ISBN: 0-91233388X.

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.

New York: Ballantine, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first book, one which appeared on many "must-read" lists at its publication. The New York Times review described it as Òrefreshingly direct and declarative . . . a mirror capturing the bleak comedies of life in a threatened community.Ó The plot revolves around the Guerreros, a Dominican American family living in Upper ManhattanÕs Nothar Park, and each memberÕs reaction to encroaching gentrification. The book examines the sacrifices people make to protect what they love the most. Natera herself was born in the Dominican Republic, and came to the United States at the age of ten. ISBN: 978-0593358481.

New York: Pantheon, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A reinterpretation and celebration of the tradition of black blues singers, the importance of blues not only as the roots of jazz but as a 'life-sustaining' vehicle for black women - focusing on Gertude "Ma" Rainey, 1886-1939; Bessie Smith, 1898?- 1937; and Billie Holiday, 1915-1959. Includes a transcription of all the extant lyrics recorded by Rainey and Smith. SIGNED on the half title page. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, works consulted, index. xx, 427 pp. ISBN: 0-679-45005X.