African-American from Pellbooks

Toronto: Toronto: Belford Brothers, 1875, 1875. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Decorated boards, with leather spine and corners. Three full-page illustrations. 392 pages. rare and unusual Stowe title in very good shape.. Very Good.

Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.: Black Wallstreet Publishing Co., 1992. Printed in a soft cover binding with a clear plastic front page and a black plastic backing. Cover reads: "One of the most important Novels of African American History to Rise From the Grassroots of Black America in Over a Decade!" A novel based on the infamous 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma race… Read more about this item

Hampton, Virginia: The Press of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1911. Original 15 page pampfhlet in excellent condition.

Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.: Black Wallstreet Publishing Co., 1992. Facsimile edition printed in a soft cover binding with a clear plastic front page and a black stipp paper backing. Cover reads: "One of the most important Novels of African American History to Rise From the Grassroots of Black America in Over a Decade!" A novel based on the infamous 1921… Read more about this item

Richmond, VA: Privately Printed, 1929. Excellent copy of this scarce title on the settling of Liberia written by an African-American missionary ( he had previously written another book on his experiences in the Congo ). In red cloth Hardcovers with shiny gilt title imprinted on cover. Photographic frontis of the "Original House where the illustrious Lott Carey was born in… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL: American Publishing House, 1902. A remarkably crisp and clean copy of this important work about the Spanish-American War and the role African-Americans played in it. Very minor cover wear only along the spine, the front cover illustration is bold and bright with red title and blue/silver image. This copy looks untouched and may never have… Read more about this item

College Park, GA: Bad-Man Brown Productions, Inc., 1996. Smudge is a true story that needs to be told. The author;s goal in this book: "If Smudge's story can keep our children from taking their first drink of alcohol or first choke of crack of first shot of dope, we will have the greatest chance in a very, very long time… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires: Buenos Aires, Editorial Tiempo Contemporaneo, (1966?), 1966. Pictorial SC in wraps. First Spanish language translation of Tales by LR. Red cover with portrait of Jones. 148pp. Some soiling to the covers otherwise vintage material.. Very Good.

Atlanta: Phylon, 1940. Signed and dated by Du Bois on the FFEP, as follows: "Very Sincerely, W.E.B. Du Bois, Dec. 3, 1940." From the estate of a noted African American, a Clark University Class of 1934 graduate, and an Alpha Phi Alpha brother of Du Bois. A truly unique and rare document of Americana: a bound Voume of the… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires: RG: Pleamar Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Important collection of petry representing authors from throughout the Western Hemisphere writing about Slavery and Black Life. Included from North America are in o riginal English version with Spanish translation on the opposite page Walt Whitman, Longfellow, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen as well as numerous entries from… Read more about this item

NY: Philosophical Library, 1954, 1954. Very Good/Good. First Edition. Unclipped DJ. The Negro's self-imposed predicament.. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good.

Japan: Soho Press through the English Agency, 2000. fine as new in lovely red/silver marbled cloth Hardcover with original dustjacket. First Japanese translation of Danticat's novel Breath, Eyes, Memory, written as her master's thesis and published by Soho Press in 1994. The book became a best seller in 1998 when it was selected by Oprah's Book Club.. First Japanese… Read more about this item

Lagos, Nigeria: Miral Printing, 1982. Good/No Jacket. Pamphlet format, 6"8-1/2" (prox.), soft-cover. Ex-college library, 35 pages. Examination of culture shocks and coping mechanisms experienced by some foreign women married to Nigerians. Unusual work. Some pages coming loose.. Soft Cover. Good.

London: London: Chatto & Windus, 1992, 1992. First British Edition. ISBN:0 7011 4017 8. Fine in large photographic self-wraps. In the black ghettoes of Oakland sixteen-year old Ty is a veteran of jungle warfare; riding shotgun for the drug-deali ng Deek, he keeps his mind numb and his conscience clean with crate-loads of beer. This is the RARE ENGLISH FIRST… Read more about this item

NY, The Dial Press, 1962, fourth printing. F /F as new, not price-clipped with great photographic dj..

New York: NY: Random House, 1978, 1978. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. STATED FIRST EDITION. Every page of this urgent street novel rings true. Gang life in New York vividly described. Noted writing tema produced the play, "Hail, Hail the Gang s," among other efforts.. STATED FIRST EDITION. Fine/Near Fine.