New York & London: Marion Boyars, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel about an "ordinary" black man who, in helping his son get some information about black history, comes across a photograph of a lynching in Louisiana in the 30's - and the man lynched was his father. 253 pp. ISBN: 0-7145-28552.

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.

Carbondale and Edwardsville, IN: Southern Illinois University Press, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Originally published in 1899 by the Colored Co-operative Publishing Company, Boston, this was one of the first novels to be published in the US by an African American woman writer, a novel which deals realistically with the injustices, including lynching and rape, still so common 35 years after the end of the Civil War. Now reissued as a title in The Lost American Fiction series edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Includes a new afterward by Gwendolyn Brooks. Illustrated by R. Emmett Owen. 412 pp plus a list of the titles in this series. ISBN: 0-809308746.

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.

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1944) dj. Smith's classic novel of the South - the "strange fruit" are, of course, the victims of lynchings hanging from the trees. A book which generated controversy at the time of its publication, but became a bestseller. Cover praise from DuBois who called this "one of the most important books to come out of the South in years." This is the 12th printing, by the original publisher, but reset to comply with wartime paper restrictions. 250 pp.

New York: World Publishing Co., (1947). Hardcover - Smith's classic novel of the South - the "strange fruit" are, of course, the victims of lynchings hanging from the trees. A book which generated controversy at the time of its publication, but became a bestseller. Praised by DuBois who called this "one of the most important books to come out of the South in years." 250 pp.

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.

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.

New York: The Feminist Press, (1987.). Biography of three heroic black women "whose stories, in the words of Margaret Walker, 'every woman, man, and child should know': Ellen Craft, the daring runaway Georgia slave who used her freedom to serve the cause of abolition; Ida B. Wells [1862-1931], the firebrand journalist whose crusade against lynching awakened the consciousness of a nation; and Mary Church Terrell [1863-1954], a gifted and untiring leader in the movement for suffrage, civil rights, and world peace." Foreword by Margaret Walker and Introduction by Barbara Christian. Photographs, chronologies, bibliographies, index. xliii, 174 pp. ISBN: 0-935312-89-7.

Santa Cruz, CA: Western Tanager Press, 1980. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A picture both of the changes in journalism over the years, but also of the changes in California - among the stories which he wrote about were the 1933 double lynching in San Jose's St. James Park, the Salinas lettuce strike of 1936, the first automobile down the Big Sur highway, the ghost towns of the Santa Cruz mountains, and more. INSCRIBED by the author and dated in 1980.