THE KITCHEN AND THE COTTON PATCH.
Atlanta: Cullom & Ghertner, (1948). [viii], 102p. Illustrated throughout with drawings by K. Burke. Green cloth with designs and title on upper cover in light green. Recipes and dialect poetry. More
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ALL TIMES, ALL PEOPLES:
New York: Harper & Row, (1980). First edition. [vi], 65p. Illustrated in black and white by Leonard Everett fisher. Tan cloth over red boards, red spine titles. More
LANGSTON HUGHES, A BIOGRAPHY.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1968). First edition. xiv, 281p. Tan cloth with black spine titles. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR. More
THE POLITICS OF THE UNIVERSE, EDWARD BEECHER, ABOLITION, AND ORTHODOXY.
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, (1968). xii, 274p. Gilt-titled brown cloth. More
THE NEGRO AND THE NATION:
New York: Henry Holt, 1906. First edition. iv, 436p. Publisher's ribbed brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Work 590; Blockson 9756. More
THE NEGRO IN AMERICA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970. Second edition, revised and enlarged. xx, 351p. Silver-titled blue cloth. Contains 6500 entries and "remains the only current reference work that brings together so many significant citations, scholarly and popular, of books, journals, pamphlets, and government documents." (Jacket blurb). More
ARGUING ABOUT SLAVERY, THE GREAT BATTLE IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Stated first edition. x, 577p .Gilt-titled blue boards. (Originally purchased through the History Book Club). More
A COON'S DREAM OF THE PAST.
Saint Petersbutg, Russia: n.d. [c.1900]. Sheet music with titles in Cyrillic and with pictures of Black children on cover. Rare. More
DAN EMMETT AND THE RISE OF EARLY NEGRO MINSTRELSY.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1962). First edition. xiv, 496p. Illustrated, including much musical notation. Gilt-titled red cloth. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the author. More
REPORT ON ECONOMIC CONDITION OF THE SOUTH.
Washington DC: (1938). Stapled pamphlet. 64p. More
PLANTATION JIM, AND THE FREEDOM WHICH HE OBTAINED.
New York: Hurat, [1. 1885]. 96p, [4p ads. ]. Publisher's embossed brown cloth with titles and designs in black, gilt title ground on spine. More
THE NEGRO IN FILMS.
London: Skelton Robinson, n.d. 288p. Illustrated. Silver-titled black cloth. More
AN INTRODUCTION TO BLACK LITERATURE IN AMERICA FROM 1746 TO THE PRESENT.
New York: Publishers Company, Inc., under the auspices of The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, (1970). Revised. Quarto. xvii, 302p. Illustrated. Tan cloth with titles in black and silver. From the International Library of Negro Life and History. More
THE UNITED NEGRO:
Atlanta: D.E. Luther Publishing, 1902. First edition. xxx, 600p., Illustrated. Red cloth with titles and designs in black. Blockson 4266. More
BLACK APRIL.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1927). First issue with "wood ducks quacked" in lines 32-33, p. 17. In first issue d.j. without the Crawford blurb on the front panel flap. 316p. Terra-cotta cloth with gilt titles on spine and upper cover. More
LIFE AND LABOR IN THE OLD SOUTH.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1930. Third printing. xix, 375p. Illustrated, including folding map in rear. Gilt-titled blue cloth. Blockson 9643. More
ZIBA.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1943. First edition. [x], 190p. Illustrated with decorations by Edith Mahier. Tan cloth with brown spine titles. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. "James Pipes has made of his materials something altogether rare in the white man's writings about the American Negro. His writing contains..... More
COUSIN FRANCK'S HOUSEHOLD, OR SCENES IN THE OLD DOMINION.
Boston: Upham, Ford and Olmstead, 1853. Fourth edition. vii, 259p. Illustrated with three plates, Publisher's emnossed blue-green ribbed cloth with gilt spine titles. More
SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT.
Philadelphia: Morris Music, (1934). One folded sheet with cover illustrations of a Black man riding in a chariot with "Rufus" on the chariot. More
UNCLE ISAAC:
Richmond, VA: B.F. Johnson, 1899. First edition. 245p. Illustrated. Blue cloth with titles and designs in black and gilt. Dialect. More
DIDDIE, DUMPS, AND TOT OR PLANTATION CHILD-LIFE.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1882). First edition. xii, 13-217p. 2 p. ads. Illustrated. Plates signed WLS. Green cloth with titles and pictorial designs in darker green. Issued the year following Uncle Remus and includes a Tar Baby story. Peter Parly to Penrod, p. 64. More
CONFESSIONS OF A NEGRO PREACHER.
Chicago: Canterbury Press, 1928. First edition. [viii], 297p. Black-titled orange cloth. Blockson 5042. More
CONFESSIONS OF A NEGRO PREACHER.
Chicago: Canterbury Press, 1928. First edition. [viii], 297p. Black-titled orange cloth. Blockson 5042. More
HE INCLUDED ME:
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1989). First edition. xvi, 181p. Illustrated from photos. Terra-cotta cloth with spine titles in black. More