African-Americana from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Watertown [NY]: Ingall's & Stowell's Steam Press, 1852. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (20cm). Publisher's embossed brown cloth gilt; 288pp. Slight external wear, with some roughness to cloth at spine crown; final two pages faintly printed; pronounced foxing to endpapers but text generally tight, fresh, and clean; a Very Good copy. Early ownership signature on title page of "Jos.… Read more about this item

New York: Merit Publishers, 1968. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial wrappers; 30pp. Near Fine. Text of two speeches delivered at the Detroit Friday Night Socialist Forum in February and March of 1967.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); navy blue and red paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-326,[2]pp. Contemporary owners penciled signatured and address to front endpaper, spine ends pushed, some dust-soil and rubbing to topstain, with circular rubber stamps of the Circulating… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); bluish-grey paper-covered boards and turquoise cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and authors initials embossed onto front cover; light blue topstain; dustjacket; [4],xvi,198,[6]pp. Topstain faded, with a faint, tiny splash mark to heel; contents fresh; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), showing light wear… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. First Edition. Two large quarto volumes in cloth-covered boards and dustjackets, comprising the fourth volume in the series (it was eventually extended to five). Fine in the original, unclipped dustwrappers and publisher's cardboard slipcases. The fourth volume of this magisterial visual survey of African representation in Western art, produced under the auspices… Read more about this item

New York: Published and for sale at 5 Beekman Street, 1860. First Edition. 12mo. 20th-c. binding of tan calf over paper-covered boards; marbled page edges; 95,[1]pp. About fine and complete; the pamphlet appears to have been offered without cover wrappers (in any case, not noted by Blanck). Uncommon first edition of this late tract by the important abolitionist… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 4,000 copies. Quarto (31cm); black cloth, with titles embossed on spine; dustjacket; [144]pp; illus. Signed by Kathleen Cleaver on the title page, dated July 30, 2010. Base of spine gently nudged, crown gently bumped, else Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket.

Boston: Published for the Author, 1875. First Revised Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); dark blue-green cloth, with titling and portrait of the author stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; xii,[13]-324pp, with an engraved tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, and the errata slip tipped onto the preface at gutter. Contemporary ink ownership inscription to front pastedown ("L.G.… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black and gilt on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-415,[1]pp. Contemporary ink gift inscription to half-title page, base of spine gently nudged, mild softening to two corners (though still sharp), else a clean, Near Fine copy, with the topstain… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Navy-blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 318pp. A tight, unmarked copy, very Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap), fine but for some trivial toning at extremities. An exceptional copy. Yette's incendiary, controversial, and influential… Read more about this item

New York: Rinehart and Company, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's heavy grain light blue cloth covered boards titled in silver and black to spine. Dustjacket. Some light scuffing, sunning, and bumping to edges and extremities, in a lightly worn priceclipped dustjacket with some chipping and loss to the corners, light marginal creasing and some shallow loss. A strong,… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's decorated card wraps. 452pp. A clean, bright, near fine copy with minimal wear. Internally clean. An academic examination of the manner in which specifically Caribbean struggles for emancipation shaped and influenced routes towards freedom elsewhere.

West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1987. First Edition. Octavo. 22.5cm. Publisher's pale grey cloth boards titled and ruled in dark blue to spine. 237pp. A near fine copy, clean and bright. Internally clean. Inscribed by the author with a lengthy inscription to the front flyleaf: "For Julian Mason - With much appreciation for all your good work on… Read more about this item

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Reprint. Octavo. 25.5cm. Publisher's illustrated card wraps. 592pp. Clean and sharp, light marginal wear, a very good, handsome copy. Internally clean. An exhaustive collection of Chestnutt's writings on African American issues and achievements.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's pale red cloth titled in gilt to the spine. Dustjacket. 252pp. Bumped to spine ends, with a little superficial wear and sunning to extremities, a very good, slid copy in a lightly worn dustjacket that is a slightly short , and has some fraying, shallow chipping and loss… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's original black cloth titled in red to spine. Dustjacket. 109pp. Some light wear to the edges and extremities, minor bumping and scuffing and a spot or two of dustiness, a very good, strong copy in a clean, strong dustjacket with some marginal creasing and wear to the extremities… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 142pp. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap); lightly rubbed at spine ends and extremities, Near Fine. The Puerto Rican author's fourth book, a collection of short stories for young adult readers set in Spanish… Read more about this item

New York: The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc, 1939. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.75cm); original photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; pp.227-254; illus. Light wear, handling, and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and old rubber-stamps from Yale University's Social Sciences Department on wrappers and a few internal pages; complete; Very Good. Complete issue of this long-running African American… Read more about this item

New York: The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc, 1941. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.75cm); original photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; pp.243-270; illus. Light wear, handling, and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears, a 1.75" split to lower spine-fold, and old rubber-stamps from Yale University's Social Sciences Department on wrappers and a few internal pages; complete; Very Good. A… Read more about this item

New York: The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc, 1940. First Edition. Slim quarto (27.75cm); original photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; pp.227-270; illus. Light wear, handling, and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and old rubber-stamps from Yale University's Social Sciences Department on wrappers and a few internal pages; a few small passages marked in pencil; complete; Very Good.… Read more about this item