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.

New York: Arcade, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Essays on writers (including Henry Miller, James Baldwin and Thomas Merton), on race and racism and more.

New York: The New Press, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "From the author of 'Dog Whistle Politics', an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Notes, index. xxiii, 263 pp. ISBN: 978-1620975640.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006) sj. Hardcover first edition - A fictionalized account of Jackie Robinson's first season in the major leagues, as told by the bat boy for the Brooklyn Dodger, as he learns to overcome his own racism. Illustrated in full color by the award-winning African American artist Brian Pinkney, Square format, unpaginated.

New York: Scribner's, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Well-researched account of the story of Johnson Whittaker,who born a slave became the 3rd African American to enter West Point (where he encounter the same hazing and ostracization as his predecessors), and of his court martial in 1881. Photographs, notes, index. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-684-128446.

New York: Scribner's, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Well-researched account of the story of Johnson Whittaker,who born a slave became the 3rd African American to enter West Point (where he encounter the same hazing and ostracization as his predecessors), and of his court martial in 1881. Photographs, notes, index. 320 pp. ISBN: 0-684-128446.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume of his autobiography: this begins when he arrives in the US as an 18 year old college student on a tennis scholarship - and it recounts his coming of age in a country overwhelmingly in its immensity, luxuriousness, poverty and despair - and not free from racism. Photographs. Index. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-684190435.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1993. First edition - Nordan's fourth book - a novel set in the South in the 1950s - one that follows the "crooked paths of righteous racism" (although not a retelling of the story of Emmett Till, this novel had its roots in Nordan's memories of the trial - in a neighboring town in the Mississippi Delta - of 2 white men for Till's murder.) 290 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third novel - after years of living a comfortable middle class life in the US, Michael Dorstiger is suddenly called back to South Africa - where he was born - after the death of his father, only to discover a world very different from the childhood he remembered - and he grudgingly finds himself escorting a black fugitive to a meeting place on the coast. 300 pp.

New York: Viking Penguin (1996). A very personal and frank look at racism. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-670-859567.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1951.) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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." 156 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.

New York: Basic Books (Perseus), (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection by one of the most 'innovative, irreverent and outspoken iconoclasts of our time" - essays on racism, slavery, American history, Africa, the confederate flag, Celtic-American traditions, W. E. B. DuBois, terrorism on American soil and more. SIGNED on the title page. 189 pp. ISBN: 0-46506891X.

New York: Times Books, (1992). A graphic portrait of life inside one of America's largest prisons - the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, written by the prisoners themselves for The Angolite. the award winning prison magazine. In his NY Times Review, Russell Banks said that this should be ". . .required reading for all fifty United States governors and for all present and future Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates...the most convincing argument I have read against our nationwide desire to deal with lawbreakers by 'locking 'em up and throwing away the key'." Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography, index. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-812920481.

New York: By the author, nd [2007]. SIGNED first edition - Novel based on this African American's experiences during World War II - when war broke out Robinson was drafted into the all-black 92nd Infantry Division of the Army. SIGNED on the title page. 288 pp.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1975). An important study both of the labor movement and of its persistent hostility to Chinese workers - a hostility which was institutionalized in California politics with the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Winner of the 1971 California Silver Medal. Footnotes, bibliographic note, index. x, 293 pp. ISBN: 0-520029054.

New York: The Viking Press, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "critical but sympathetic analysis by an outsider" - this exiled South African writer and journalist - of US society during the 1960s: an era of dissent and insurrection, divisions over the war in Vietnam, contradiction between great wealth and great poverty, the disintegration of Ameircan cities, racial conflict., and more. Includes notes, index. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-670-590584.

Palo Alto, CA: Gander Publishing, Inc. (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Stories taken from the author's personal journal, sharing her experiences in childhood, as a student nurse at Massachusetts General in the 1930's, as an army nurse during World War II, as wife and widow, as a mother and grandmother of "brown babies and pink babies," and as an educator and public health advocate. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- with love and memories of so many years!" and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with photographs. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-9639586-07.

New York: Macmillan, (1969.). Hardcover - Includes contributions by Robert H. Billigmeier. A comprehensive approach to the subject: beginning with the dispute that arose over who was first on Everest, Mallory or the Nepalese Tenzing this goes on to discuss the many ways in which ethnicity, race and/or skin color can affect lives and societies. Name and subject indexes, xi, 626 pp

New York: Autonomedia, 1989. First edition - Includes 27 pages of references. 247 pages. ISBN: 0-936756-357.

Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, (1985.). Reprint of this novel of a Jewish girl and and African American girl who forge a friendship in an atmosphere of anger and rage, originally published in 1955. This edition includes an afterword by Nellie McKay, an essay 'On Racism and Ethnocentrism' by Johnetta B. Cole and Elizabeth A. Oakes, and a brief biographical sketch of the author. 352 pp plus 2 pages of advertisements. ISBN: 0-935312-404.

New York: Putnam, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, which focuses on the lives of black women who work as servants in a small Mississippi town in 1962 at the dawn of the Civil Rights era. A surprise bestseller, which went quickly into many later printings, this was also the basis of the movie of the same name. 451 pp. ISBN: 978-0399155345.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1971) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book for younger readers - one which chronicles a white brother and sister's growing tensions as they realize the racial and sociological differences between their life and that of the black housekeeper Nilma who reared them and her son Reggie who taught them what life is like in ghetto Harlem. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-374362440.

New York: Haymarket Books, 2016. First edition - In this analysis, "activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and argues that the persistence of structural problems such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment have created a context in which this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation." Extensive notes. 254 pp. Issued as a trade paperback original.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first biography of the man who served with distinction in the Colored Troops during the Civil War (losing in his arm), was a teacher,lawyer and journalist, and then betrayed his race by writing one of the most insulting attacks on African Americans ever published - the 1901 book 'The American Negro.' Hardcover review copy with publisher's material laid in. Appendices, notes, index, 386 pages. ISBN: 0-8203-21303.