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  • FOR LAMB. by Cline-Ransome, Lesa.
    Cline-Ransome, Lesa.
    FOR LAMB.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Holiday House, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A young adult novel by this award winning writer, set in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1930s. .An interracial friendship between two teenaged girls goes tragically wrong in this powerful historical novel set in the Jim Crow South. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 294 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88332
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  • THERE'S NOTHING I OWN THAT I WANT. by Jackson, Harrisene (1941-2015)
    Jackson, Harrisene (1941-2015)
    THERE'S NOTHING I OWN THAT I WANT.

    Edition: First printing.

    Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1974) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A frank and vivid autobiography by an African American woman which shows the depths of racism's effects, from witnessing the murder of her mother as a 6 year old child through Jim Crow in Texas as the wife of a soldier, to the continuing desperate struggle for her family's survival. The dust jacket refers to it as "life on the bottom, told by a black woman who won't learn to quit." The introduction by Leo Hamilian describes how this book came to be: it began as an essay written by Jackson as part of the admissions process at the City College of New York emerged from an admissions…

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    Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1974) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A frank and vivid autobiography by an African American woman which shows the depths of racism's effects, from witnessing the murder of her mother as a 6 year old child through Jim Crow in Texas as the wife of a soldier, to the continuing desperate struggle for her family's survival. The dust jacket refers to it as "life on the bottom, told by a black woman who won't learn to quit." The introduction by Leo Hamilian describes how this book came to be: it began as an essay written by Jackson as part of the admissions process at the City College of New York emerged from an admissions essay, and Hamilian, the Dean involved, passed the essay to an editor at The Nation, which published it in May, 1968, and that resulted in Jackson received a book offer - she spent 5 years writing this book. INSCRIBED on the title page in December 1976: "To My Brother Gerald, Together we can win to make this a better world / Dare To Struggle! Dare To Win! Dare To Be You! Dare To See Tomorrow, I Do!/ 'Love Is A Circle of Sharing'/ from your sister in the struggle/ Harrisene 'Penny' Jackson." vii, 168 pp. A hard-to-find book, and scarce signed. ISBN: 0-139146970.

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    Condition: Very near fine in patterned paper covered boards in pale yellow, silver and ivory, in a very good dustjacket (toming to back cover and interior of dj, short closed tear at flap, original price

    Book ID: 88297
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  • Odum, Howard W.
    RACE AND RUMORS OF RACE: Challenge to American Crisis.

    Edition: Reprint.

    New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. A work originally published in 1943, this covers the changes to the American racial situation brought on by World War II, by focusing on the period from July 1942- July 1943. Among the topics covered are the situation in the South, the rumors surrounding Eleanor Roosevelt and the 'Eleanor Clubs' and the Negro in the war services. 245 pages. Bound in brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine, issued without a dustjacket.

    Condition: Very near fine condition.

    Book ID: 13039
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  • HANGING CURVE. by Soos, Troy.
    Soos, Troy.
    HANGING CURVE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Kensington, (1999.). First edition - A Mickey Rawlings novel - a story involving the Negro Leagues, set in 1922 in St Louis when the Ku Klux Klan was growing in influence in the Midwest, and of the struggle against Jim Crow laws. After a game between a semi-pro team and a black team, the black pitcher is found hanging on the field. 263 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 57670
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  • HANGING CURVE. by Soos, Troy.
    Soos, Troy.
    HANGING CURVE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Kensington, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A Mickey Rawlings novel - a story involving the Negro Leagues, set in 1922 in St Louis when the Ku Klux Klan was growing in influence in the Midwest, and of the struggle against Jim Crow laws. After a game between a semi-pro team and a black team, the black pitcher is found hanging on the field. 263 pp. ISBN: 1-575664550.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (remainder line).

    Book ID: 73187
    View cart More details Price: $16.50