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BLACK PROFILES IN COURAGE: A Legacy of African American Achievement.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Studies of both well-known African Americans like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, etc, and less well-known - Bass Reeves, Peter Salem, Joseph Cinque and Lewis H. Latimer. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. Photographs, bibliography, Index. xxiv, 232 pp. ISBN: 0-688-130976.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but with remainder line).
Book ID: 79078More details Price: $18.50 -
SONGS OF JUBILEE: New and Selected Poems (1969 - 1983.)
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, 1986. SIGNED first edition - A series of poems which tell the history of blacks in America - included are sections on the Underground Railroad, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Cornish's own family, and commentaries on modern events. SIGNED on the title page by Cornish (who in 2008 received some of the recognition he deserved when he was named the first Poet Laureate of Boston.) 85 pp. ISBN: 0-87775-196x.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff black wrappers.
Book ID: 20666More details Price: $35.00 -
AN UNFINISHED BATTLE: AMERICAN WOMEN 1848-1865: The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States, Volume 5.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1994.). Hardcover first edition - The fifth volume in this excellent series - the first multivolume series of the public and private lives of women over four centuries, each written by a distinguished historian. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Chronology, suggestions for further reading, index. 141 pp. ISBN: 0-19-5081102.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards (stamp on front endpaper.) Other titles in this series available.
Book ID: 48406More details Price: $15.00 -
MANY THOUSAND GONE: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1993). dj. Hardcover - A history of slavery in America, written for children, and focusing on those who escaped slavery and on the Underground Railroad. Includes stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson, and others. Beautifully Illustrated with soft full-page black and white drawings by the Dillons. ISBN: 0-394-828739.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (previous owner's name.)
Book ID: 26519More details Price: $20.00 -
MANY THOUSAND GONE: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1993). dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of slavery in America, written for children, and focusing on those who escaped slavery and on the Underground Railroad. Includes stories of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Josiah Henson, and others. Beautifully Illustrated with soft full-page black and white drawings by the Dillons. Large format. ISBN: 0-394-828739.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the first edition, and in this condition.
Book ID: 72950More details Price: $30.00 -
SONG YET SUNG.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Riverhead Books, (2008.). First edition - His third book, an historical novel of slavery set in the years just before the Civil War and inspired by the life of Harriet Tubman - a story of "slaves and slave-catchers, of facing the tyranny of the past and dreams of the future." In 2013, McBride won the National BookAward. 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers (as new).
Book ID: 58786More details Price: $30.00
