African-American from Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA

Boston: Printed by S.N. Dickinson & Co., 1847. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 183 x 119 mm), 12 pages, in original printed wrappers (softcover). A full-throated cry against slavery. The Quakers, who had long opposed slavery, wonder how a supposedly Christian nation could allow such evil to exist. "From the border slave states to the far south and… Read more about this item

Robeson, Paul, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Roscoe Dungee. To the President and Congress of the United States of America [Petition] and Typed Letter Bearing Signatures of Robeson, Du Bois, and Dungee. New York: [Communist Party USA], 1947. Single-page typed letter and two-page petition, printed on rectos only. Each page 8 1/2 x 11 inches (215 x 280 mm). A rare typed letter bearing… Read more about this item

New York: Basic Books, [2000]. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 240 x 165 mm), xxx, 486, [4] pages. INSCRIBED by Ishmael Reed on the title page: "For / Brian, / good / wishes. / Ishmael Reed / May 3 2000." Excerpts from Reed's novels, plays, essays, short stories, and poems. With a lengthy introduction by… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First Edition, 2nd Printing. An important reference on African-American literature. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo, 594 pages, in dust jacket (hard cover). CONDITION: Very Good, with small scrapes to both paste downs and the first few pages (not affecting any text) in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and soiling.