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UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84204More details Price: $28.50 -
SEGREGATION: The Inner Conflict in the South.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1956) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author Warren returns to the South where he was brought up and recounts conversations he had regarding segregation and integration - although his conclusion that "despite the suspicion, evasion, hatred and fear engendered by the problem now, integration one day will appear as just one small episode in the long effort for human justice" was perhaps too optimistic. Noted journalist and author Tom Wicker's copy with his handwritten name on the front endpaper. 66 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black and white boards in a very good black dust jacket with some rubbing, foxing to the interior.
Book ID: 88750More details Price: $60.00 -
DOWN SAND MOUNTAIN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, (2008). First edition - The author's first book for young readers, set in a small town in 1966, one which deals with issues like race and segregation, the reality of the Vietnam War, abuse, sexuality and even death, in a thoughtful and affecting way. 327 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 65126More details Price: $14.50 -
THE GOD HUSTLERS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Berkeley, CA: Munto Books, (1984). First edition - A novel about religious cults, the nature of evil, and about evil can look good and mingle with it. Cover praise from Tillie Olsen who called it a "brave and dramatic exploration of the relationship of cults to race and politics in contemporary America." 435 pp. ISBN: 0-961414014.
Condition: Near fine (crease to lower corner of back cover)
Book ID: 84345More details Price: $16.50 -
THE WHITE LEAGUE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New Milford, CT: Toby Press, (2005). SIGNED first edition - A novel about guilt, privilege, and racism in New Orleans by this author who is best known for the Kurt Muller series set in Aspen, Colorado, although actually grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast and in Louisiana. A story involving blackmail, a secret organization, and a white supremacist running for governor of Louisiana. SIGNED on the title page. 477 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 78805More details Price: $28.50