New York: Harper and Brothers, 1840. Second Edition. First illustrated edition. 12mo. Publisher's green linen over boards; printed paper spine label; twelve unnumbered leaves of plates (lithographs); 36-pp publisher's ads at rear, dated March, 1840. External rubbing and wear, especially at board edges; remnants of spine label present but illegible;..... More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1927. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "Mrs. Annabel Morris Buchanan from the author with sincere good wishes," signed "Ned Adams," datemarked Columbia, SC, 1934. Small octavo (20cm). Black cloth spine over orange-tan cloth-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket (in pieces) laid-in; xvii,117pp..... More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; [60]pp plates (unnumbered); 84pp text. Fine. In the original dustwrapper, Fine but for a small bruise at upper margin of front panel; exhibition brochure and separate pamphlet of interviews with the artist laid..... More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); blue paper-covered boards and navy blue cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; xvi,431,[1]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "To Lucky / Her father had the right idea!..... More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. First Edition. First Printing, with solicitation letter from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth backstrip over tan paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xii],355,[1]pp; 8pp. black and white photograph (halftones) inserted. Generic SPLC sticker bearing..... More

New York & Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); white cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [iv],v-xii,196pp. Signed by the author opposite the title page. Subtle tanning to text edges, some foxing to cloth and upper edge of textblock..... More

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; xxvi,150pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with some light surface wear, a faint scratch to rear panel, and a tiny stain to base of spine. Memoir..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); black pebbled boards and pale grey cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xii],223,[5]pp. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with just a hint..... More

Raleigh, NC: Rev. M.L. Latta, 1903 [but 1924]. Revised and Expanded Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); dark green cloth titled in gilt on spine, with titles stamped in gilt on front cover within a brown double-ruled border; [viii],[31]-600pp, with a portrait frontispiece of Frederick Douglass and five inserted plates of illustrations (halftones);..... More

New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First Trade Edition. One of the great documentary photobooks of the 1930's, examining the lives of black plantation workers in the Gullah coastal region of South Carolina. The idea for the book was originally conceived by American photographer Doris Ullman (1882-1934), who met Julia..... More

Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); maroon boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xxii,[2],3-248pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "For John + Mary Hellman / With admiration from several perspectives (including the chicken), and in solidarity / John..... More

[Detroit: Amos P. Kennedy, 2019]. Series of eight (8) light brown chipboard cards (measuring ca.6" x 8"), with decorative elements printed in various colored inks, and text printed in black using wood and metal type. A Fine set of cards, which together can be viewed as a colorful celebration of..... 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