Race/Ethnic Studies-Literature / African/Black Americans from Gargoyle Books

Crown Publishers, Inc., 1995. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Ringgold, Faith. In this inspirational illustrated book designed for children, but suitable for all ages, the acclaimed author of "Tar Beach" describes a dream she had about Martin Luther King, Jr., framing it as "uniquely personal vision in which she imagines the people of the… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. VG-. Tenggren, Gustaf. Bannerman's classic children's story of Little Black Sambo, his parents, the tiger, & pancakes is returned to its original Indian roots in this Little Golden Book version for very young readers, with illustrations by Gustaf Tenggren. First published in this edition… Read more about this item

Farleigh Dickinson University Presses, 1984. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. A muldisciplinary collection of 10 essays which explore the changing relations between Jewish & African-American from the 19th-century to the present, highlighting the situations in the US, Africa, & Israel. In 211 pages with an Introduction by the editor. Part of a collection of… Read more about this item

Bedford, Massachusetts: Lippincott, 1934. First American Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. Classic children's story about a little black boy, his encounter with a tiger, pancakes, & his parents, Black Mumbo & Black Jumbo. Orig. written in India & published in 1899, this is "The Only Authorized American Edition" from Lippincott, c. 1934 (no date in… Read more about this item

Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989. Second Revised Edition . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Comprehensive overview of research on aging, old age, & the status of elderly African Americans during the latter 20th century. First published in 1980, this is the Revised & Updated Second Edition from 1989, with new references, sources, & empirical findings. In 277 pages with… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Praeger Publishers Inc., 1982. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/No Jacket. Following an overview of racism & the struggle against it in the US, & the views of some leading sociologists to racial oppression, the progress made by American Blacks in advancing their status relative to whites is explored empirically, highlighting the… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1911. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Fair. One in a series of "most popular" collections of music from this publisher, this book is a compilation of traditional African American dirges, spirituals, lullabys, laments, & uplifting work songs, obtained from plantation owners, freed-men, industrial teachers, & minstrels." Displaying the… Read more about this item

New York, New York: MacMillan Company, 1969. First Edition Later Printing 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Deemed "what is surely the most extraordinary autobiography of our times,'' this is the true story of a Black boy who grew up in Harlem in the 1960s, who, despite a troubled beginning in a gang & at a school… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Signet/New American Library, 1983. First Mass Market Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. VG-. Hailing the author as "the D. H. Lawrence of the black psyche,'' this "most magnificent novel" was the author's third. Orig. published in hardcover in 1981, this is the First Printing of the very first Mass Market Paperback Edition… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1972. First Mass Market Paperback Edition 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Good+. Written early in Morrison's career, this is a "haunting and frightening story...so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry,'' about an 11-year-old Black girl made pregnant by a rape--committed by her own father. Orig.… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Viking Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Negri, Rocco. Collection of 19 fairy & folk tales first written down in the early 1930s by a pioneer teacher in the Kasai district of what would later become the Democratic Republic of Congo. They feature the Baluba & Lulua tribes, & have been carefully reviewed &… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles H. Hansen Music Corp, 1948. First Paperback Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Two collections of "Negro songs" from the mid-twentieth century: 1) Spirituals: Time-Honored Songs of the Negro People, compiled and arranged for treble voices (S.S.A) by William Stickles (New York, NY: Chas H. Hansen Music Corp., 1948); & 2) Negro… Read more about this item

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., 1982. Revised Edition 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Holmes, Louis F.. First published in 1963 in the midst of the civil rights movement & before the "Black is Beautiful" campaign, this coloring book was created by North Carolina social activist Lucille Giles. It offers brief biographical sketches (in… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition Later Printing 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. Long before national attention became focused on segregation & civil rights came this "explosive" exposé of a book by a lifetime Southerner in the 1940s, who had gone underground & inside to "tell the truth about the best-lied-about region in… Read more about this item

Highland Park, MI: Highland Park College, 1973. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good+. Opened as a junior college in 1918, Highland Park evolved into a small community college serving a primarily African-American population in this enclave of Detroit until its closure in 1996. This coloring book is comprised of drawings by 15 students as part… Read more about this item

New York, New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1973. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. iAn "historical, literary, & critical analysis" of how black characters were portrayed in children's books published 1827-1967, drawing implications for black children's identity & racial relations in general. In 219 pages with Notes, Bibliography, & Index, illustrations throughout. A… Read more about this item

1971. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Collins, Paul. An attempt to present "a personal, intimate portrait of Africa as it really exists today both in the city & in the bush,'' with the "special sympathies" of black photographer Collins, who journeyed with his infant son & writer Lee to trace this ancestors over… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1927. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. First book, purported by him to be fictional, by this pioneering civil rights activist (1871-1938), who played a leadership role in the early days of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Orig. published anonymously by Knopf in… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, 1946. First Paperback 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+. Powerful novel set in Reconstruction-era South Carolina, depicting an "extraordinary experiment in political, intellectual, and economic brotherhood between freed slaves and poor whites." In 281 + [2] pages + ad for other Pocket titles in rear. Orig. published in… Read more about this item

Macon, Georgia: J. W. Burke Company, 1932. First Thus . Soft cover. Good+. Fictionalized, but based on true accounts, of a former enslaved man in the post-Civil War South making his way back "home" to his old master. First self-published by the author in 1920, this is the First Edition, first printing, from the J. W. Burke Co.… Read more about this item