Category: African American

Black boards, black cloth spine. Just a hint of edge rubbing, in slightly edge rubbed DJ. A handsome copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292, xii pages
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Have No Fear The Charles Evers Story

By: Evers, Charles & Andrew Szanton

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Wiley : 1996

Seller ID: 53803

ISBN-13: 9780471122517

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Brown hardboards, just a hint of edge rubbing, in like DJ. Now protected in a mylar jacket. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 360 pages
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Great Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson From Baseball to Birmingham

By: Falkner, David

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, Simon & Schuster : 1995

Seller ID: 13599

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

in dj.; 382 pages
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Church People in the Struggle: The National Council of Churches and the Black Freedom Movement, 1950-1970

By: Findlay, James F., Jr.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press : 1993

Seller ID: 23478

Binding: 1st printing

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

, remainder mark on bottom page edge, in DJ. ; HB, octavo; 255 pages
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Southern Slaves in Free State Courts: the Pamphlet Literature Series I, Volume 3

By: Finkelman, Paul

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Garland Publishing : 1988

Seller ID: 34907

ISBN-13: 9780824067182

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Third volume in Slavery, Race, and the American Legal System, 1700-1872. This volume is primarily on the Dred Scott decision. ; Slavery, Race and the American Legal System, 1700-1872; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 694 pages
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Mirror to America The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin

By: Franklin, John Hope

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux : 2005

Seller ID: 41315

ISBN-13: 9780374299446

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Gray boards, very slight edge rubbing, in like DJ, with one .75" closed tear on rear of DJ. FLATSIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. 20th century fight for civil rights by preeminent African American historian. Now protected in a mylar jacket. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 416 pages; Signed by Author
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Race and the American Romantics

By: Freimarck, Vincent and Bernard Rosenthal, eds.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY, Schocken Books : 1971

Seller ID: 29102

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

, x-library w/internal & external marks Very little wear. ; HB, octavo; 328 pages
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Martin Luther King, Jr. The FBI File

By: Friedly, Michael & David Gallen

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf Pub : 1993

Seller ID: 48743

ISBN-13: 9780881849929

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued

Very slight edge rubbing, no creases. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 720 pages
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Martin Luther King, Jr. The FBI File

By: Gallen, David & Michael Friedly

Price: $22.50

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf Pub : 1993

Seller ID: 44542

ISBN-13: 9780881849400

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Very slight edge rubbing, in edge rubbed DJ, with a bit of chipping at spine ends. Now protected in a mylar jacket; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 720 pages
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man

By: Gates, Henry Louis Jr.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: NY, Random House : 1997

Seller ID: 25649

ISBN-13: 9780679457138

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

in dj. x-library w/internal marks only. James Baldwin, Colin Powell, Harry Belafonte, Bill T. Jones, Louis Farrakhan, Anatole Broyard, Albert Murray.; HB, octavo; 226 pages
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Ten Directors of the N. A. A. C. P. "Association with Communist Fronts"

By: Georgia Commission On Education

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Atlanta, GA, Georgia Commission On Education : [1957]

Seller ID: 47738

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued

Slight edge wear, and paper is lightly age toned. Self wraps with stapled spine, former owner's name inside front. A clean, bright copy of this scarce pamphlet. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 28 pages; Published by The Georgia Commission on Education, which was established in 1953 in order to preserve segregated schools in Georgia. From its inception, the Commission was populated by life-long racists who were convinced that integration was a ?Communist plot?. In March 1957, the exhibits included in this pamphlet were introduced into evidence and made a part of the hearings of the Joint Louisiana Legisla...
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On the Cultural Achievements of Negroes

By: Gregoire, Henri, translated w/notes and intro by Thomas Cassirer & Jean-Francois Briere

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Amherst, Univ of MA Press : 1996

Seller ID: 29071

ISBN-13: 9781558490321

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Lg softbound, , x-library w/internal & external marks. First published in France in 1808, this work was a touchstone for the Abolitionist movement in England & US. ; SC, octavo; 141 pages
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Camp-Fires of the Afro-American (Afroamerican) , or The Colored Man as a Patriot

By: Gutherie, Chaplain Jas. M.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Afro-American Pub : 1899

Seller ID: 32658

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor with no dust jacket

Pictorial cloth, originally blue w/red & white decoration. Cloth cover worn on all sides, faded, frayed spine, hinges broken with webbing separated on front inner hinge, webbing showing on rear inner hinge. Stitching is loose. Endpapers are missing but text is complete. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 710 pages; Covers African American military service from Colonial wars to Spanish American War. 19 chapters on Civil War service. Endpapers, blank pages missing, tape repair on title page, dedication page. Some dampmarking on page edges. A rough, but complete copy of this scarce work.
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In The Garden on Our Dreams: Memoirs of a Marriage

By: Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor & Harold C.

Price: $3.50

Publisher: NY, Kodansha : 1998

Seller ID: 13162

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New in Near Fine dust jacket

Lg. Softbound, , nearly . ; 306 pages
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A Narrative Bibliography of the African-American Frontier Blacks in the Rocky Mountain West, 1535-1912

By: Hardaway, Roger D.

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Lewiston, NY, Edwin Mellen Pr : 1995

Seller ID: 45394

ISBN-13: 9780773488793

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Plainly bound in brown cloth, just a hint of edge rubbing, nearly new. Scarce in hardcover. ; Studies in American History, Volume 9; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 242 pages
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