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WRITINGS ON THE WALL: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Liberty - Time, Inc, (2016.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book of essays in which Abdul-Jabbar "uses his unique blend of erudition, street smarts and authentic experience on the country's seemingly irreconcilable partisan divide - both racial and political, parenthood, and his own experiences as an athlete, African-American, and a Muslim. . . he also offers keen assessments of and solutions to problems such as racism in sports while speaking candidly about his experiences on the court and off." SIGNED by Adbu-Jabbar on the title page. Index. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-1618931719.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 72357More details Price: $60.00 -
CARNIVAL.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Grove Press, (2005). First edition - The third novel by this award winning writer from the Caribbean (born in the US to Trinidadian parents, he grew up in the Bahamas), one which "lays bare themes of race and sexuality in a parodic recasting of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises transported to the West Indies." Three childhood friends from Trinidad meet up by chance in New York City and, fueled by alcohol, decide to return "home" for Carnival. Short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Caribbean and Canadian region. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-802170056.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82290More details Price: $17.50 -
CARNIVAL.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Grove Press, (2005). SIGNED first edition - The third novel by this award winning writer from the Caribbean (born in the US to Trinidadian parents, he grew up in the Bahamas), one which "lays bare themes of race and sexuality in a parodic recasting of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises transported to the West Indies." Three childhood friends from Trinidad meet up by chance in New York City and, fueled by alcohol, decide to return "home" for Carnival. Short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Caribbean and Canadian region. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-802170056.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82291More details Price: $30.00 -
THE SELLOUT.
Edition: 8th printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket (temoin on front endpaper)
Book ID: 90121More details Price: $150.00 -
THE COLOR OF OUR FUTURE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - An examination of the changing demographics and the racial attitudes in the United States, especially among the young. "By the year 2050, there will be more nonwhite than white Americans, and most of the nonwhite population will be Asian and Latino, not black. Increasingly, America is becoming a multiracial society. Americans in their teens and twenties are at the forefront of this cultural revolution. . . Chideya allows the voices of the next generation(black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, and multiracial(to ring out with truth and clarity and guide us to the kaleidoscope of our future." xii. End Notes. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-688165303.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 70469More details Price: $15.00 -
PEARL'S SECRET: A Black Man's Search for His White Family.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An autobiography and family history which "combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal narrative . . . Neil Henry - a black professor of journalism and former award winning correspondent for the Washington Post - sets out to piece together the murky details of his family's racial past" Ranges from the story of overseer and Confederate veteran who fathered both sides of the family in Louisiana in the post Civil War era to the present day. Photographs. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-520-222571.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant.)
Book ID: 56298More details Price: $15.00 -
NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, (1995). Originally published in 1930, and a classic of African American literature, this is the story of a young boy's awakening to the reality of black life in a small Kansas town. Includes a new introduction by Maya Angelou and a foreword by Arna Bontemps. 299 pp. ISBN: 0-020209851.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82254More details Price: $12.00 -
THE ALMOST SISTERS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 86048More details Price: $30.00 -
HOUSE DIVIDED: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King.
Edition: First printing.
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - A conservative's take on the legacy of Martin Luther King - the creation of a "house divided" for the second time - but this time, it is not between slavery and freedom, but "between law and lawlessness." Notes, index. 567 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine in a good dust jacket (edgewear to the dj).
Book ID: 79347More details Price: $24.50 -
TABOO: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful collection of poems by this Pulitzer prize winning poet, all written in three line stanzas, which examine the role of blacks in Western civilization and how these roles are portrayed in art and literature. 132 pp. ISBN: 0-374-291489.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 58062More details Price: $18.50 -
MASKS: Blackness, Race, and the Imagination.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - An exploratation on how the concept of blackness has evolved in Western thought and literature by this novelist and critic - a free-ranging book which covers early European attitudes during the days of the slave trade, slave narratives, books like 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and modern writers like Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Aime Cesaire as well as white writers like Norman Mailer and John Updike. 295 pp with index. ISBN: 0-19-5133706.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 26465More details Price: $20.00 -
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 1953: Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ended June 30 1953.
Edition: First edition.
Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1954. Hardcover first edition - Publication 4149. In addition to the usual financial reports, and reports on operations, this includes articles on radioisotopes, musical instruments, genetics and an early discussion of factory robotics - the push-button factory by Frank K. Shallenberger, and also the geological history and evolution of insects by F.M. Carpenter, Norsemen in North America before Columbus by Johannes Bronstad, to Colonial Williamsburg; and Charles Bird King, painter of Indian visitors to the nation's capital by John C. Ewers, The mountain village of Dahr Lebanon by Raymond E. Crist, an article on dating the Dead Sea scrolls, on climate and race and more. Illustrated. 481 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in dark green cloth with gilt lettering and decorations (prev owner's name inside front cover.)
Book ID: 32753More details Price: $25.00 -
jANUARY SUN: One Day, Three Lives, A South African Town.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, one which takes us below the surface to look at the lives of three men in the small town of Brits in the Western Transvaal, South Africa -a white Afrikaaner vet, a black taxi driver and a young Indian shopkeeper. Includes an afterword which updates the situation of these three men in 1989. Map. 222 pp. ISBN: 0-671645935.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some discoloration to the black cloth spine, price-clipped)
Book ID: 69991More details Price: $15.00 -
TAKE ONE CANDLE LIGHT A ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her seventh book, the story of a travel writer who returns to her southern California home to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest friend, only to find herself drawn into the timultuous life of the twenty-two year old son of that friend. A novel which moves from California to Lousiana, from the issues of the past to the dangers of the present. INSCRIBED on the title page "For --- for keeping those candles lit" 320 pp. ISBN: 9780307379146.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58780More details Price: $35.00 -
TAKE ONE CANDLE LIGHT A ROOM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pantheon, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her seventh book, the story of a travel writer who returns to her southern California home to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of her closest friend, only to find herself drawn into the timultuous life of the twenty-two year old son of that friend. A novel which moves from California to Lousiana, from the issues of the past to the dangers of the present. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 9780307379146.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 61840More details Price: $35.00