New York: Crown, (1999). First edition. 272p. Illustrated throughout. Gilt-titled maroon glazed boards. Includes Josephine Baker, Walter White, Zora Neale Hurston, A'Lelia Walker, James Weldon Johnson, Ethel Waters, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Florence Mills, Duke Ellington, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Carl Van Vechten, Langston Hughes... More about THE POWER OF PRIDE:
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, (1967). First edition. x, 283p. Brown cloth with titles in pink and black. More about THE NEGRO AND APPRENTICESHIP
Ilfracombe, UK: Arthur H. Stockwell, (1962). First edition. 176p. Tan cloth with black titles. More about THE NEGRO IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION
New York: W. W. Norton, (1991). Book Club edition. xiii, 465p. Black cloth spine over tan boards, copper spine titles. More about FREDERICK DOUGLASS
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. First edition. viii, 326p. Gilt-titled black cloth spine with boards in orange and blue curving designs. More about BANJO:
Charlotte, NC: Stone Publishing, (1922). Reprint of the 1907 edition. Small octavo. xviii, 189p. Illustrated with drawings by A.B. Frost, E.W. Kemble, and photographs by Mrs. W.O. Kibble. Bound in bright red and white checked material with black titles and mounted color plate on upper cover of Blacks picking cotton..... More about LYRICS FROM COTTON LAND
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 about THE KITCHEN AND THE COTTON PATCH
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 about ALL TIMES, ALL PEOPLES:
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1968). First edition. xiv, 281p. Tan cloth with black spine titles. INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR. More about LANGSTON HUGHES, A BIOGRAPHY
Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, (1968). xii, 274p. Gilt-titled brown cloth. More about THE POLITICS OF THE UNIVERSE, EDWARD BEECHER, ABOLITION, AND ORTHODOXY
New York: Henry Holt, 1906. First edition. iv, 436p. Publisher's ribbed brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Work 590; Blockson 9756. More about THE NEGRO AND THE NATION:
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 about THE NEGRO IN AMERICA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Stated first edition. x, 577p .Gilt-titled blue boards. (Originally purchased through the History Book Club). More about ARGUING ABOUT SLAVERY, THE GREAT BATTLE IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Trade edition. 306p. Linen cloth with gilt titles. More about TAR BABY
Saint Petersbutg, Russia: n.d. [c.1900]. Sheet music with titles in Cyrillic and with pictures of Black children on cover. Rare. More about A COON'S DREAM OF THE PAST
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 about DAN EMMETT AND THE RISE OF EARLY NEGRO MINSTRELSY
Washington DC: (1938). Stapled pamphlet. 64p. More about REPORT ON ECONOMIC CONDITION OF THE SOUTH
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 about PLANTATION JIM, AND THE FREEDOM WHICH HE OBTAINED
London: Skelton Robinson, n.d. 288p. Illustrated. Silver-titled black cloth. More about THE NEGRO IN FILMS
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 about AN INTRODUCTION TO BLACK LITERATURE IN AMERICA FROM 1746 TO THE PRESENT
Atlanta: D.E. Luther Publishing, 1902. First edition. xxx, 600p., Illustrated. Red cloth with titles and designs in black. Blockson 4266. More about THE UNITED NEGRO:
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 about BLACK APRIL
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1930. Third printing. xix, 375p. Illustrated, including folding map in rear. Gilt-titled blue cloth. Blockson 9643. More about LIFE AND LABOR IN THE OLD SOUTH
Boston: Cupples, Upham, & Co., 1884. First edition. vii, [9]-503p. Embossed brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Quite scarce in original editions. Blockson 9099 lists 1883 edition; Work p. 304. More about ACTS OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY APOSTLES
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 about ZIBA