New York: Crown, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Irreverent essays dissecting the current state of affairs between blacks and whites by this black female political/social humorist. ISBN: 0517597594.

New York: Pamela Dorman Books / Viking, (2014). First edition - The author's first novel, a story of complicated family relationships. When a young African American California woman unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in southern Louisiana, she sees this as a chance to start over. She moves there with her 11 year old daughter determined to succeed, despite a mountain of debt and no idea what she is really getting into. Book was very loosely adapted as the basis for the highly praised Ava DuVernay produced television series for the Oprah Winfrey Network. 372 pp.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1984.). Hardcover first edition - Number 3 in the series "Grass Roots Perspectives on American History" - An introduction to the roots of American racism, with chapters on migration, the Klan, Jim Crow, lynching, Harlem Renaissance, segregation in baseball, busing, etc. Index. xxxv, 253 pp.,. ISBN: 0-313-213240.

New York: Harcourt, Inc., (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Told in alternating voices, this novel by a Newbery Honor award writer, is a fast-paced, provocative, and funny book about 7th graders at a private school - one a white girl and the other a black boy (the only African American in the class) - who discover a secret that shakes them both to the core. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 216 pp. ISBN: 9780152057534.

New York: Putnam, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a town in Florida of middle-class hardworking black men and women, which was attacked by a mob of rampaging whites in 1923 and totally destroyed - a subject treated in somewhat fictionalized form in the movie 'Rosewood." Illustrated with photographs. Index, notes and sources. 373 pages. ISBN: 0-399141472.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - An illustrated edition of Douglas's only work of short fiction, four stories set in small town Mississippi, in which Black lives and white lives are intertwined, and originally published in 1963. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Wolfe A title in the Author and Artist series. Afterword by Douglas. 234 pp plus colophon. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1783225.

New York: Summit Books, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by the author of 'Forrest Gump' - set in the early 1960's in his fictional Bienville, a coastal town in the bayou country, where oil has been discovered under land formerly considered so worthless it was inhabited only by poor black farmers and sharecroppers - and now the richest family in town is trying to force them off the land. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-671-40072X.

New York: Random House, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - An analysis of sexual attitudes in the context of race, capitalism and religion and their effect on the African-American community - including the effects of white standards of beauty, the historical relations between white men and black women and the fallacies of black nationalism. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-394462211.

New York: Random House, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - An analysis of sexual attitudes in the context of race, capitalism and religion and their effect on the African-American community - including the effects of white standards of beauty, the historical relations between white men and black women and the fallacies of black nationalism. 181 pp. ISBN: 0-394462211.

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.

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: George Braziller, 1959. dj. Hardcover first edition - Satirical poems about politics, television, the AMA, racial tensions and more, still appropriately named "rhymes for our times" even 50 years later.Illustrated with drawings by Robert Osborn. 144 pp. Slightly oversized format.

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: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - set in southwestern Arkansas, it opens in 1919 with a cow-pasture baseball game between the Sugar Springs men's team and the colored team from Bethel - an event whose outcome disturbs the delicate racial & sexual balance of the community. ISBN: 0-87113-6104.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. dj. Hardcover - SIGNED by the author on the title page. The author's first novel - set in southwestern Arkansas, it opens in 1919 with a cow-pasture baseball game between the Sugar Springs men's team and the colored team from Bethel - an event whose outcome disturbs the delicate racial & sexual balance of the community. ISBN: 0-87113-6104.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. First edition - The author's first novel - set in southwestern Arkansas, it opens in 1919 with a cow-pasture baseball game between the Sugar Springs men's team and the colored team from Bethel - an event whose outcome disturbs the delicate racial & sexual balance of the community.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - set in southwestern Arkansas, it opens in 1919 with a cow-pasture baseball game between the Sugar Springs men's team and the colored team from Bethel - an event whose outcome disturbs the delicate racial & sexual balance of the community. ISBN: 0-87113-6104.

New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing African-American private investigator Smokey Dalton - set in Memphis in 1968 where tense racial relations are beginning to build towards danger, as the strike of the sanitation workers enters its third week. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-312262647.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of 12-year-old Enoch Parnell's experience when his family moves into a balck ghetto - where his father has just bought a hardware store - and where Enoch is one of the few white boys. The tensions - between Enoch and the black gangs, between Enoch and his parents - accelerate, although his family is befriended by a black handyman who helps them adjust. Interesting story for older children about race relations and civil rights, culmininating in the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King. Illustrated by Marvin Friedman. 185 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's unusual 2nd novel, set in Virginia in 1942. The story of 2 families, one white, one black, one from the Midwest, the other the descendants of the slaves who had worked on the plantation for generations. ISBN: 0-671-644092.

New York: Center for Migration Studies. 1990. First edition - A study based on the Chinese American experiences in New York City - focuses on the increase of these relationships, the attraction and the obstacles, of which the most significant is still family objection. Graphs and charts. Bibliography, index. 140 pp. ISBN: 0-934733-473.

New York: Lancer Books, n.d. [1962.]. First edition - "A Brutal & Shocking Look at How 18,000,000 Americans Really Think, Feel, & Love."
Lancer 25052, Includes contributions by Williams, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Shirley Jackson, Seymour Krim, John Howard Griffith, Langston Hughes, Junius Edwards and others. 160 pp.

New York: Dial Press, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of Hawaii's transition from a mid-Pacific paradise to a modern industrial community - with a focus on the emergence of the islands' so called 'second-class' citizens - Hawaiians, Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese - after World War II, and of the political and economic reform movement led by Jack Burns and war-hero, Senator Daniel Inouye. Photographs. Notes, index. 304 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award winning author's second novel (5th book), set in the Mississippi Delta in 1902 where 'Reconstruction is being encroached upon by Jim Crow.' SIGNED on the title page. Well-deserved cover praise from such diverse writers as Ha Jin, Kent Haruf, David Guterson and others. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-375-411593.