Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1933. 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 Peterkin at a literary... More about Roll, Jordan, Roll
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. First Edition. Superior copy of this collection of short tales, in which Dunbar continued to recount Black life both before and after slavery. BAL 4930; WORK, p.463. First Printing. Octavo (18.5cm); brown cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt, black, and... More about The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900. First Edition. Collection of Gullah dialect stories and folk tales, many collected on Cape Fear, Noth Carolina, and all of which first published in "The New York Sun." LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 6905; WRIGHT III 3862; see also "American Negro Dialect Literature" in "A Bibliography of... More about The Black Homer of Jimtown
Atlanta: United States Penitentiary, [1907]. "Wanted" sign to be posted "In Conspicuous Place," offering a reward for the arrest and detention of William Finney, alias Ivory L. Rolland, an inmate of the United States Penitentiary of Atlanta, Georgia, and escaped on May 27, 1907. Finney, who had been serving a.... More about $60 Reward
New York: American News Co., 1872. First Edition. Sympathetic view, by a first-hand observer, of African-American society in the South during Reconstruction. With much on the retrograde attitudes of white southerners, including some of the earliest first-hand accounts of the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. HOWES S-907. Octavo (19.5cm);... More about The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, The Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent...
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Birmingham: Southern Afro-America Industrial Brotherhood, (1923). Circular, announcing a "District-Wide Racial Conference" for the purpose of "discussing welfare, social and industrial betterment that will be the means of educating the masses and bringing about a greater confidence between the races." Among the topics proposed for discussion are the suppression of... More about Southern Afro-American Industrial Brotherhood [...] To the Negro Ministry and Industrial Workers...
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 329pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Slight rubbing to jacket; old gift insciption on title page; else clean copy in very good jacket. More about Promiseland: A Century of Life in a Negro Community
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 183pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Slight rubbing to dustjacket with adhesive residue to front right corner; appears unread; tight copy in very... More about A Black Physician's Story: Bringing Hope in Mississippi
Durham: Duke University Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 221pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy in a very good dustwrapper. More about The Perils and Prospects of Southern Black Leadership: Gordon Blaine Hancock 1884-1970
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 140pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Price-clipped; aged toned jacket; clean, crisp copy with unmarked text. More about Children of Longing
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 205pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Minor tear to upper spine edge; else clean, crisp copy in very good dustjacket. More about With All Deliberate Speed: Civil Rights Theory and Reality
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 327pp; 5 inserted leaves of black and white photographs; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Minor tears to dustjacket along edges; else... More about The American Negro Academy: Voice of the Talented Tenth
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 333pp; illus. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Mild rubbing to jacket; else crisp copy in very good jacket with unmarked text. More about Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR
New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 320pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Slight rubbing and wear to jacket; else tight copy in very good jacket with unmarked text. More about The Politics of Massive Resistance
New York: International Center of Photography, 1981. First Edition. Brief exhibition guide to Freeman's photograps shown at the International Center of Photography, with a preface by Cornell Capa and an introduction by Dr. Acklyn R. Lynch. Slim oblong octavo (19.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers; [24]pp; illus. Some trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. More about Southern Roads/City Pavements
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001. First Edition. Substantial volume of poems by the Louisiana-born Pulitzer Prize winner, touching on the Black experience, Southern life during the Civil Rights era, and his experiences in the Vietnam War. First Printing. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; xviii,446pp. Mild wear, a few tiny bumps to... More about Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems
Atlanta: Morris Brown College, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original brown printed staplebound wrappers; [7]-34pp.; photographic illus. Wrapper edges slightly toned, else Very Good or better. Ownership signature of a Charlotte C. Wright to upper wrapper. More about Bulletin of the Georgia Annual Conference, Sixth Episcopal District of the African Methodist...
Winston-Salem: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, 1990. First Edition. Quarto (26cm x 29cm). Pictorial wrappers; 163pp; illus. Light wear to wrapper edges; faint creases to corners; Near Fine. Extensively illustrated in color. Catalog for the traveling exhibition originating at SECCA in 1990. More about Next Generation: Southern Black Aesthetic
Charleston: September 24, 1924. Legal deposition made by one Ethel Walters as a witness to the death of an African American man, Abel Smalls, on September 1, 1924. Walters and her young child had been riding from Charleston to Folly Island that evening when the car they were in broke... More about Autograph Witness Deposition of Ethel L. Walters taken by William S. Legare, Notary Public for...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1969]. Octavo (21.5cm.); original leatherette in grey price-clipped dust jacket lettered in black and white; xxii,471pp.; 32 leaves of photographic illustrations, almost all printed on rectos and versos. Small soil spot to upper jacket panel, light rubbing to extremities, spine a hint toned, else Very Good... More about Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original decorative cloth in off-white pictorial dust jacket by Kent; [8],310pp.; frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. Jacket extremities rubbed, the whole rather toned and lightly soiled, rear panel dampstained though only truly apparent on recto--jacket possibly married as there is no... More about Candy
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, [1976]. First Edition. Square quarto (22.75cm.); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; 100pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wear from handling, especially at spine foot; toning and light dampstaining to spine edge of upper wrapper; About Very Good. Showcasing the worst housing available in each Alabama county, including shacks... More about Alabama: "Kind of Tough Living Here." A report on bad rural housing in all 67 Alabama...
Macon: Ardivan Press, 1960. First Thus. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket illustrated by W. Levitt; xvii,[3],396pp.; portrait frontispiece, map endpapers. Some shelf wear to jacket extremities, minor dust-soil, spine quite faded, else Very Good and sound. From the library of the late local Virginian historian and educator... More about The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
Huntington, WV: Appalachia Press, 1976. A brief statement of the culture and history of Southern Appalachia, broken up into three parts: pre-Civil War, Civil War, and post Civil War. With a poem titled "When the Leaves Come Out" by "A Paint Creek Miner" printed on final leaf. Fourth printing. Octavo... More about People's Cultural Heritage in Appalachia
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1908. First Edition. Considered the muckracking journalist's most controversial work, a collection of articles written during his travels through the American South, garnering praise from Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Addams, and others. Baker's work includes an account of the Atlanta riots..... More about Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy
