London: Gollancz, 1962. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's maroon cloth, titled in gilt to spine; dustjacket; 220pp. Tight, clean copy; a Very Good clean copy. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly rubbed on rear panel, with an unfortunate closed square tear to the upper left front panel..... More

New York: Intenational Publishers, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's royal blue cloth titled in red to spine. 245pp. Slightly shaken in its binding, bumped and scufed to spine ends and corners, with some light surface wear and soiling to the boards, the most notable defect is a small, shallow..... More

London: Nancy Cunard at Wishart & Co., 1934. First Edition. One of 1,000 copies. Large quarto (31.5cm); publisher's dark brown buckram, with titles stamped in red on spine and front cover, and a map of "The Black Belt of America" on rear cover; dark brown topstain; viii,[2],3-855pp; with numerous half-tone..... More

[New Haven: S.i., 1970]. A crudely-designed broadside created by Wade Perry and Gerald Allen, both students at Yale's School of Architecture during the trial of the New Haven Nine. The broadside, clearly aimed to circulate among the throngs of protestors converging upon the Yale campus and surrounding region, called for..... More

[Berkeley, CA]: Berkeley Graphic Arts, 1968. First Edition. Poster announcing the memorial service for Robert James Hutton (1950-1968), which took place six days after his murder at the hands of Oakland police. Known affectionately as "Lil Bobby," Hutton joined the Black Panther Party at the age of 16, becoming both..... More

New York: Signet / New American Library, 1971. First Paperback Edition. Davis's first book, a collection of writings on legal trials and prisons, which she edited with Bettina Aptheker. "George Jackson, Ruchell Magee, Fleeta Drumgo, Julian Bond, Erika Huggins, Bobby Seale, James Baldwin, John Cluchette, Huey Newton, Bettina Aptheker, and..... More

New York: Trident Press, 1966. First Edition Thus. Reissue of Killens's first book, a landmark novel of social protest chronicling "the lives of the Youngblood family and their friends in Crossroads, Georgia, from the turn of the century to the Great Depression. Its large cast of powerfully affecting characters includes..... More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black and red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,450pp, with 8 pages of photographic plates bound at center. Tight, clean, Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $24.95)..... More

New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., [1952]. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; [32]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, very mild toning to wrapper edges, clean internally; Very Good or better. Powerful collaborative work between former New Orleans newspaperman Alfred Maund and artist Ben Shahn. The volume..... More

New York: By the Author, 1957. Twenty-third Revised Edition. Rogers (1883-1966), born in Jamaica, was among the first African-American scholars to re-examine European history from an Afrocentric perspective. The current work, which went into many printings, provides a cross-section of his researches in the areas of the Arts, Ancient Civilizations..... More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); dark brown cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; xiv,318,[2]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few small tears, and a tiny abrasion to front panel. The first full-scale critical..... More

Providence, New York, & Stonington, CT: 1842-3. Quarto and small folio, totaling 40 pages (not including address panels), all very legible with the exception of the last, most with typed transcriptions, and all in very good to fine condition. A collection of 14 letters dating from 6 April 1842 to..... More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-224pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Base of spine gently nudged, with some faint, scattered soil to lower edge of textblock, else Near Fine..... More