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

New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Thick octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in black decorative dust jacket; xi,[1],690pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, corners bumped, light soil to top textblock edge, else Very Good and sound. More

[Berkeley: Yardbird Publishing Incorporated, 1976]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [10],312,[14](ads)pp.; illus. Light wear to wrapper extremities, else Near Fine. Includes contributions by Reed, John A. Williams, Amiri Baraka, Lesley Silko, Stanley Crouch, and many others. Also includes an interview with Eldridge Cleaver. More

Berkeley: Yardbird Publishing Cooperative, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; xiv,224pp.; illus. Light wear to wrapper extremities, else Near Fine. Includes contributions by Young, Reed, John A. Williams, Jay Wright, and many others. More

Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth boards; dustjacket; 325pp. Unobtrusive private ink stamp (in the shape of a star) to front endpaper, else Fine and unmarked in a fresh, fine dustwrapper. More

[Berkeley: Y'Bird Magazine, 1978]. First Edition. 2 volumes; octavos (22.75cm.); original photo-illustrated glossy card wrappers; illus. A hint of wear, ownership rubberstamp inside wrapper of No. 2, else Near Fine. Includes an interview with Ralph Ellison, and a review of Al Young's Sitting Pretty by 28-year-old Henry Louis Gates Jr...... More

Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1937. First Edition. Young adult novel about the black workers on a Louisiana plantation. Upper jacket subtitle: "A Story of the South." SCHOMBURG, p. 4550. Octavo (21.5cm.); original buckram in white and blue pictorial dust jacket; 292pp.; illustrated endpapers, frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Internally ex-St. Theresa's..... More

Bucharest: Editura de Stat, [1951]. Romanian language edition of Fast's detailed account of the 1949 Peekskill riots, which took place after Paul Robeson's benefit concert for the Civil Rights Congress in Westchester County, NY. OCLC finds a single holding at U.Pennsylvania. Small octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; 122, [6]pp; text is..... More

Brooklyn: Pageant-Poseidon Ltd., [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; x,[2],94pp. Foxing along jacket spine and folds, else About Fine. Poetry collection by a "graduate, Suma Cum Laude, of the 'school of hard knocks.'" The contents of the first half of this collection, titled "The..... More

Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, [1976]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); boards in mustard pictorial dust jacket; 78pp. Fine. Collection of love poetry by various black authors, including Langston Hughes, Ossie Davis, Richard Walter Thomas, and James Weldon Johnson. Ends with quotes on Woman from notable African American figures, including Muhammad Ali..... More

Hartford: Hartford Publishing Co., 1868. First Edition. Second state with the corrected "Douglass" on line 10. Octavo (22.5cm.); original green gilt-embossed cloth, all edges sprinkled, brown glazed endpapers; xiv,[11]-575pp.; steel engraved author portrait frontispiece, 17 plates. Some shelf wear, especially at corners, spine gilt a bit dulled; some plates foxed..... More

New York: Signet / New American Library, 1971. First Edition. Third book in Saunders's juvenile series featuring African American nurse Marilyn Morgan, who in the present volume leaves the confines of the New York hospital she works in for three weeks in the Caribbean as a cruise nurse. Uncommon, especially..... More

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; no wrapper; 232pp; includes bibliography and footnotes. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Appears unread; a clean, tight copy in about fine condition. More