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
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
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
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
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 305pp. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Gently tanned on spine; price-clipped jacket; else tight, clean copy in very good jacket with unmarked text. More
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
College Park, MD. McGrath Publishing Company, 1967. Facsimile Reprint. Octavo. Red cloth boards; no wrapper; 253pp; includes 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 tight, clean copy in about fine condition. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
N.p. [New York?]: [1926]. First Edition Thus. A Sherwood Anderson rarity. This finely-printed keepsake on thick paper appears to be the only separate appearance of an article which first appeared in Vanity Fair for September, 1926. Later reprinted in Hello Towns (SHEEHY 333), but this printing not noted by the... More
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
![Freedom Ride [Signed]. James BALDWIN, foreword, James PECK, intro Lillian Smith.](/pictures/medium/22126.jpg?v=1529353337)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm.); original simulated cloth in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, black topstain; 160pp. Light wear to jacket extremities else Very Good and sound. Signed by Peck on front flyleaf verso. Contemporary account of the end of segregation in the South. More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket signed in image by "Hawkins," grey topstain; [8],381pp. Light shelf wear, jacket spine a bit sunned, corners very gently bumped, else Very Good to Near Fine. Novel set in South Carolina, of a doomed... More
![Jacklighting [Limited Edition, Signed]. Ann BEATTIE.](/pictures/medium/24477.jpg?v=1529353427)
Worcester: Metacom Press, 1981. First Edition. Wrappered issue, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.32. Slim octavo; letterpress printed sheets sewn into wrappers, with title label applied to front cover; 20, [4]pp. Fine copy. More
Birmingham: Red Mountain Editions, 1966. Octavo. Printed wrappers (softcover); 93pp. Near Fine; inscribed inside front cover: "For Richard & Margot Archer / With best regards, John Beecher," datemarked Birmingham, 1966. More
