Romare Bearden: His Life & Art
New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1990]. First Edition. Large, thick quarto (28.5cm.); original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; 320pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket spine a shade faded, else Fine. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1990]. First Edition. Large, thick quarto (28.5cm.); original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; 320pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket spine a shade faded, else Fine. More
[Berkeley]: Before Columbus Foundation, 1981. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm.); publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers; [4],77pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear to extremities, very brief dampstain to bottom corner, else Very Good or better. [8]pp. price list laid in. Among the Foundation's Board of Directors are Ishmael Reed and Rudolfo Anaya..... More
New York: Totem Press / Corinth Books, [1962]. First Edition. Small octavo (20.25cm.); original white staplebound wrappers illustrated by Jesse Sorrentino; unpaged. Wrappers a bit toned and slightly finger-soiled, light wear, else Near Very Good and sound. Bookplate signed by Wakoski laid in. More
Alameda, CA: Ankh Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (26cm.); Purple illustrated wraps; 50pp.; small faint corner bend, light rubbing. Near Fine. Sphinx takes its characters and the reader on a whirlwind tour of history as it was, and as it might be, if a ruthless and brilliant man..... More
[Phoenix, NY]: Frank E. Richards Publishing Co., [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original pictorial card wrappers; [4], 219pp.; illus. A bit dust-soiled, else Fine. Juvenile novel recounting the experiences of Jacques "Ebony Jack" Duval, a black man from Massachusetts lured to the West in the antebellum years. More
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, [2005]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; xii,252pp.; text illus. throughout. Boards very slightly bowed, previous owner's pressure-stamp to title page, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
Buffalo: University Press, [1970]. Revised Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original orange card wrappers; [4],225pp. Worn from handling, spine quite faded, first 8 leaves separated but present, title page soiled, ownership inscription. Good only. History of the race riots in Buffalo, New York, 1967. More
[St. Albans, NY: Olean Bess, 1972]. First Edition. Poetry collection by African-American author and songwriter, who describes her work in the introduction as expressing "my feelings about love, hate, black white, relative and friend with a trace of prejudice or resolute." A short note at the bottom of the last..... More
Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (26cm). Tan cloth titled in gilt; cartographic endpapers; [x],182,[2]pp; color plates, black and white illustrations. Inscribed by the author to Bonnie and RIchard Koeln on half-title. A firm, clean copy, lightly rubbed: Very Good. Jacket edgworn, with short tear..... More
New York: Youth Against War and Fascism, [1970]. First Edition. Youth Against War & Fascism (YAWF) was the youth arm of the Trotskyist Workers World Party, dedicated to raising awareness for the plight of political prisoners held across the U.S. Here they draw attention to the government's attempt to destroy..... More
N.p., s.i., [1971]. Original offset lithograph, 17" x 11", printed in reddish-brown ink on off-white, uncoated poster stock. Photographic portrait vignette at center of sheet within a thick plain border; one line of text at bottom margin below border. Slight soil and creasing to extremities, and a single short, closed..... More
New York: Francis M Naumann, 2013. First Edition. Quarto (27cm). Printed heavy card wrappers; 50pp; chiefly illus. Mild rubbing to cover extremities, else Fine. Catalog for a 2013 exhibition of the artist's work. More
[Washington, D.C.]: Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original pictorial wrappers; vi,[2],72pp.; illus., facsimiles throughout. Fine. More
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1988. First Edition. Scholarly study of the way BNlacks and whites worshipped together throughout the antebellum period. First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [6],257pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First Edition. Second novel by Boles (1943-2012), a Chicago-born African American author. "Mr. Boles concerns himself with the intellectual Negro's dilemma; those who are not obsessed by racism, yet whose color shadows their life in social situations, in psychological relationships. His hero here, Chelsea M...... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light blue cloth, titled and blocked in gilt and dark blue on spine; dustjacket; 276pp; illus. Scattered foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustjacket, with a hint of sunning..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.25cm); indigo cloth, with titles stamped in pale blue on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 28pp. Faint lean, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), lightly spine-sunned, with edgewear, tears at lower rear joint and rear flap fold, and..... More
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1951. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xvi,238pp, illustrated throughout by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Light wear to spine ends, corners gently bumped; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50) with moderate..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[3],172pp.; frontispiece reproduction of a collage by William Harris III; additional text illus. Fine. Includes the first published appearance, the poems "Ghetto Service" and "Retrospect," of novelist Pearl Cleage, author of What Looks..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original decorative cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],320pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with minor puncturing to spine affecting text without loss of meaning, yellow portion of spine sunned to white, cloth a bit spotted else Very..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928 [but 1936]. Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [8],264pp. Some shelf wear to jacket extremities including one-inch closed tear at top of upper spine edge, light dust-soil, including to top textblock edge, spine a bit toned, else Near Very..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. First Edition. Second collection of verse in a trilogy by the Barbadian poet. "Sun Poem, leaving the female-dominated Barbadian landscape of Mother Poem, explores the male history of the island as it passes from grandfather to father to son. The sun-son-son-song progression of the work..... More
Kingston, Jamaica: Savacou Journal, 1974. First Edition. Quarto (24cm.); pictorial card wrappers by Aubrey Williams; 134pp.; illus. Light wear, corners bumped, gentle sunning to spine, with a faint diagonal crease to upper right corner of front wrapper; Very Good+. Double issue of the Caribbean literary journal Savacou, "A Journal of..... More
Toronto: 21st Century Book, 1970. First Edition. Brathwaite, a Barbadian immigrant to Brixton and East London, describes his encounters with white racism, both direct and systemic, culminating in his radicalization and adoption of militant Black nationalism. Sequel to his "A Black British Soldier," published a year earlier. A remarkable account..... More
New York: Schocken Books, [1968]. First Schocken Paperback edition. Octavo (20cm). Cream wrappers printed in black and green; [vi],169,[1]pp; publisher's ads inside wrappers; 4 full-page black and white portraits. Lightly rubbed with some minor dust, else Very Good or better. From the "Sourcebooks in Negro History" series. [62740]. More