Boston: R.F. Wallcut, 1852. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's deluxe olive green blind-embossed cloth, all edges gilt, yellow glazed endpapers; xii,[13]-416pp. Extremities rubbed with some fraying at spine crown and top fore-edge corner of upper cover, spine cloth a bit toned, faint dampstaining to fore-edge of first few leaves, else..... More

New York: The Blue Heron Press, 1953. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. Handsome edition of this cornerstone sociological work by Du Bois, first published by A.C. McClurg in 1903. "Souls Of Black Folk was written beautifully in a style which Du Bois labored to perfect. It is one of the noteworthy books..... More

Washington DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, December 13, 1968. First Edition. Issued on December 13, 1968, and signed in facsimile by J. Edgar Hoover, three days after a Federal warrant was issued in San Francisco, "charging Cleaver with unlawful interstate flight to avoid confinement." Additionally, "CLEAVER ALLEGEDLY HAS ENGAGED POLICE..... More

Baltimore: College Language Association, 1969. Single octavo issue. Pictorial glossy paper wrappers; pp287-390. Trivial external creasing, else clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Single issue of this long-running scholarly journal devoted to the teaching of English-language literature at historically Black universities and colleges. This issue devoted entirely to the life..... More

Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837. First Edition. Collection of miscellaneous pieces by the celebrated English abolitionist and reformer, including his addresses at Lowell and Boston and correspondence with William Lloyd Garrison, Benjamin Whedon, Samuel Fessenden and others. Thompson's anti-slavery tour of the United States was controversial and fraught with peril, as..... More

Detroit: Broadside Press, 1972. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers; [8],9-63,[1]pp. A Fine, unread copy. The author's fifth book, a collection of spiritual and Afro-centric poems. Alhamisi was a prominent voice in the Black Arts Movement, guest editing publications like Black Dialogue and the Journal of..... More

New York: Collier Books, 1970. First Collier Books Edition. Attaway's second book, and a classic novel of postwar African-American migration, following the lives and careers of three southern brothers in their travels to the industrial North. Highly praised upon publication by the likes of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, but..... More

New York: Harper & Row, 1955. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); pictorial wrappers; 104pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, with two tiny creases to lower right corner of front wrapper; Near Fine. Contents include James Baldwin's "Me and My House," a searching portrait of his father, with contributions by Graham Greene..... More

Chicago: Third World Press, 1970. First Edition. First Printing, one of 10,000 copies. Slim octavo (21.5cm); stapled wrappers; 24pp. Some pinpoint rubbing along spine fold, with a hint of foxing along upper text edge; very Near Fine. Important volume by Baraka, collecting three poems including his epic title poem "It's..... More

San Francisco: Cal-Way Industries, 1969. Quarto (30.5cm); blue wrappers, titled in white and blue; 31pp.; corner bends, scuffing and chip/nicks to lower front corner of cover; minor finger soil and foxing, mostly to rear cover, Very Good or better. Bi-monthly African-American publication that ran from Nov/Dec. 1967 - Sept/Oct. 1971..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); publisher's galley sheets, comb-bound into printed covers; pp.1-93a. A few slivers of loss to comb-binding, light wear and toning to wrapper extremities, with some mild dustiness to same; contents clean; Very Good+. Second novel by Boles (1943-2012), a Chicago-born African American..... More

New York: New Century Publishers, 1952. First Edition. "An appeal to American Negroes to defend the Negro communists indicted under the Smith Act. The author, a Negro communist, states that the author of the Smith Act is one of the most vicious and powerful enemies of the Negro people. The..... More

[San Francisco: Journal of Black Poetry], 1970. Promotional poster for The Journal of Black Poetry Press, a significant Bay Area periodical founded by Joe Goncalves in 1966. The poster features striking Afrofuturist imagery by Harlem-born playwright and artist Benjamin Caldwell (b.1937), depicting a large silhouette of a Black man whose..... More