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GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER: An American Biography
Edition: Early printing (same year as first published.)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1943. Hardcover - Illustrated with a frontispiece and inserted photographs. Bibliography, index. 342 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark blue cloth, lacking the dj (some rubbing to spine, lettering faded, short tear in cloth at upper end of spine.)
Book ID: 37261More details Price: $14.00 -
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER: An American Biography
Edition: Early printing (originally published in 1943.).
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1944. dj. Hardcover - Illustrated with a frontispiece and inserted photographs. Bibliography, index. 342 pp.
Condition: Near fine in dark blue cloth, in a very good dustjacket.
Book ID: 36959More details Price: $25.00 -
ETHOPIANISM AND AFRO-AMERICANS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, 1883-1916.
Edition: First printing.
Baton Rouge, LA Louisiana State University Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Deals with the rise of African independent churches in Southern Africa in the late 19th century and with the role that African Americans played in that rise. One of the most significant alliances was with Bishop Henry McNeal Turner of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and in addition, African students came to the US to study at black religious colleges and young African Americans were sent to Africa as missionaries. Several appendices, extensive bibliography, index. 231 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-13190.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 24957More details Price: $21.50 -
SAMMY YOUNGE, JR: The First Black Student To Die In the Black Liberation Movement.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1968.). Hardcover first edition - Biography of a black student and Civil Rights worker murdered in a gas station in Tuskegee, Alabama. Written by a member of the Movement, one of the founders of SNCC. Illustrated with photographs. 282 pp.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean, lacking the dj.
Book ID: 47495More details Price: $12.00 -
A TURN IN THE SOUTH.
Edition: First trade edition.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the US South - from Atlanta to Jackson, Tuskegee to Charleston, tobacco farms and the birthplace of Elvis, with visits to an old white Charleston family, a black woman minister, and Eudora Welty, by this Trinidadian born author, and Nobel prize winning writer. ISBN: 0-394-564774.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (some foxing to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 56579More details Price: $18.00