New York: Pantheon (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A tour de force about the controversial issue of personal interracial intimacy as it exists within ever-changing American social mores and within the rule of law. Fears of transgressive interracial relationships, informed over the centuries by ugly racial biases and fantasies, still linger in American society today. This brilliant studyÑranging from plantation days to the presentÑexplores the historical, sociological, legal, and moral issues that continue to feed and complicate that fear." Extensive notes, bibliography, index. viii, 676 pp. ISBN: 0-375-402551.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First edition - Epic novel of three generations descended from a Union solider and the runaway slave he brought home to Vermont after the Civil War.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Epic novel of three generations descended from a Union solider and the runaway slave he brought home to Vermont after the Civil War. SIGNED by the author. 542 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-7658.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic novel of three generations descended from a Union solider and the runaway slave he brought home to Vermont after the Civil War. 542 pp. ISBN: 0-87113-7658.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000. First edition - Epic novel of three generations descended from a Union solider and the runaway slave he brought home to Vermont after the Civil War.

New York: Warner, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her epic second novel, based on the true story of her grandparents' marriage - set in San Francisco in 1906 and Shanghai in 1911. SIGNED by the author. Chronology, 574 pp. ISBN: 0-446-519871.

New York: Warner, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her epic second novel, based on the true story of her grandparents' marriage - set in San Francisco in 1906 and Shanghai in 1911. SIGNED by the author. Chronology, 574 pp. ISBN: 0-446-519871.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1997. A memoir, in which his mother (the daughter of an itinerant Orthodox rabbi in Virginia, who ran away to Harlem, married a black man, and raised 12 children in the housing projects of Brooklyn) tells her story in her own word, interspersed with McBride's memories. 291 pp. ISBN: 1-57322-0221.

New York: Anchor Books - Doubleday, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mura discusses his experience growing up Japanese American in a country which interned both his parents during World War II, simply because of their race and how being a 'model minority' has resulted in a loss of heritage and wholeness for generations of Japanese Americans. . . he suggests that the shame of internment affected his sense of sexuality, leading him to face troubling questions about desire and race: an interracial marriage, compulsive adultery, and an addiction to pornography which equates beauty with whiteness - but finally, this is an account of the triumph of love - his wife, his children, his family, SIGNED on the title page. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-385-471831.

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

New York: Bantam, (1964.). A very personal book, eloquent in its simplicity, on what it meant to be black in the United States during the first half of the 20th century - he talks about the impact of the Scottsboro case, about a college student of his who was lynched in Georgia, but most of all he talks about the fact that he is tired of living in a country where there is a "race problem" although he admits he has no specific remedies for our "American sickness." 115 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An attractive new edition of the author's Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. SIGNED on the title page. This edition includes a cd of the poems read by the author. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-547-05548X.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The very uncommon true hardcover first edition of this Pulitzer prize winning collection of poems, poems which bring together two strands of the racial legacies of the South - many are a tribute to her mother, whose marriage to a white man in the 1960s was illegal in her native Missippippi and other poems which are a tribute to the role of the black regiment, the Lousiana Native Guards, during the Civil War. In addition to her many other awards, in 2012, Trethewey was named US poet laureate. SIGNED on the title page. Notes. Event program laid in. 49 pp. ISBN: 0-618-604634.