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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 184pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Revealing and disturbing study of the racist ideas and fantasies of southern whites after the Civil War.
ROOSEVELT'S HUNTING TRIP TO AFRICA by Frederick William Unger - 1909
by Frederick William Unger
ROOSEVELT'S HUNTING TRIP TO AFRICA
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The White Savage: Racial Fantasies in the Postbellum South
by Friedman, Lawrence J.
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Staffrider, Volume 5, Number 1 (1982)
by Mutloatse, Muthobi, Mike Kirkwood and Kay Hassan (eds.), Njabulo S. Ndebele, Karen Press, Mafika Gwala, Lesley Lawson, Don Mattera, et al
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Braamfontein, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1982. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce 1982 issue of this important multiracial South African literary magazine. Includes work by a vast number of writers. Unmarked copy, clean with minor creasing.
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New Classic Literary Journal 5 (Number 5, 1978) - Short Story Special
by Sepalma, Sydney Sipho (ed.), Mbulelo Mzamane, Sheila Roberts, Mothobi Mutloatse, Arthur Maimane, Frank Chipasula, Christopher van Wyk, Essop Patel, et al
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Johannesburg, South Africa: New Classic Publications Trust Fund, 1978. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 80pp, printed wrappers. Scarce fifth issue of the mid-1970s revival, under black editorship, of this important South African literary magazine. Subscription form laid in. Unmarked copy, light wear to wrappers.
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New Classic Quarterly 2 (Number 2, 1975)
by Sepalma, Sydney Sipho (ed.), Nadine Gordimer, Adam Small, Abe Motana, Obed Kunene, Andre de Villiers, Claude Noble, John Samuel, Jimmy Mojapelo, Fhazel Johennesse, Richard Rive, et al
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Johannesburg, South Africa: New Classic Publications Trust Fund, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 88pp, printed wrappers. Scarce second issue of the 1975 revival, under black editorship, of this important South African literary magazine. Includes A Writer's Freedom by Nadine Gordimer,. Price increase stamp to cover (else unmarked), a bit of spine lean and light wear to wrappers.
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Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Arrival of Negroes in Southern Politics
by Watters, Pat, and Reese Cleghorn
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1967. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Publisher's dark grey cloth with silver spine titles. The dust jacket with a b/w photo from Selma has the price of $8.95. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The jacket has rubs on the spine tips and corners. 8vo; 9.5 inches tall; 389 pages with appendixes and an index. Introduction by Leslie W. Dunbar. An early printing with the code: 67-20324. Signed with inscriptions by Pat Watters and Reese Cleghorn to Jack Price. Jack Price was involved in the Progressive Social Justice movement. He dedicated his life to the outcasts and the downtrodden. [From his obit]. Uncommon signed and inscribed with a nice association. An important contemporary account of the Civil Rights struggle by Atlanta Journal reporter Watters and editor Cleghorn. Published in the heart of the struggle in 1967 to gain dignity and the ballot.
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Dick Gregory's Bible Tales, with Commentary
by Richard "Dick" Claxton Gregory (1932-2017)
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187 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards and faux signature to cover in original pictorial jacket. Edited by James R McGraw. First edition. Richard "Dick" Gregory was an American civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, comedian, motivational speaker, author and actor. He became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences. Condition: Lightly soiled. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped else better than very good in like jacket.
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Slavery In Early Christianity
by Glancy, Jennifer A.
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Cary, North Carolina: Oxford University Press. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 2002. First Printing. Hard Cover. 203 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 1.6: KB#006570: Dustjacket now protected by a new Brodart Mylar Cover. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. Printing Number Line (1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2). Dustjacket has small edge cut. "Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the Gospel teachings of brotherhood and charity? Slaves were considered the sexual property of their owners: what was the status within the Church of enslaved women and young male slaves who were their owners' sexual playthings? Is there any reason to believe that Christians shied away from the use of corporal punishments so common among ancient slave owners? Jennifer A. Glancy brings…
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MAMMY ROSIE
by Bagby, Albert Morris
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New York: Published By the Author. Good+. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean original green cloth has bright gilt title on spine & front cover. Text's interior is tight, clean & intact. Mended front internal hinge with cover firmly attached. Pages 153-192 have a small bottom margin damp stain which does not interfere with text. African-American Literature ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 335 pages .
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Creoledom: A Study of the Development of Freetown Society
by Porter, Arthur T.
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London UK, Oxford University Press, 1963, hardcover, xii-151 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Clean and firmly bound, slight spine-end and corner wear, lean to spine. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, slight edge nicks, wear to folds and head and heel of spine, in new Brodart sleeve. An historical and social study of the Creole society of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Illustrated with 4 black-&-white plates and 6 maps including a fold-out map of Sierra Leone showing Ethnic Boundaries. Appended; Handbill recruiting the black poor, Bibliography, Index.
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A Comparative Clinical Study of Delinquent and Non-Delinquent Negro Boys: A Dissertation in Psychology
by Watts, Frederick Payne
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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1941. First edition. 1941 SCARCE LANDMARK CONTROLLED STUDY OF DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR IN BLACK TEENS BY FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO EARN A PHD FROM UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 9 3/4 inches tall offprint; original grey printed staplebound card wrappers; [2], 18pp. Near Fine. Reprinted from the Journal of Negro Education, April, 1941. Dissertation presented to the faculty of the graduate school of University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Prominent psychologist's first independently published piece, earning him the first PhD awarded to an African American from the University of Pennsylvania. FREDERICK PAYNE WATTS (1904-2007) was one of five biracial children, three of whom went on to be a physician, a dentist and of course a psychologist. Watts was educated in the Washington, D.C. public school system. Upon graduating from Dunbar High School in 1922, he attended Howard University, graduating in 1926…
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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"Malungu, Ngoma vem!" África encoberta e descoberta no Brasil (Cadernos do Museu da Escravatura No.1)
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Rare! Luanda: Angola. Ministério da Cultura, 1995. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Fine. Pages and cover securely held by one clean staple. Interior pristine. Covers clean and crisp, with slight reading wear to foreedge. Many B&W photos/illustrations. 24 pages. Not from a library. Published by the Angolan National Museum of Slavery and National Institute of Cultural Patrimony on the 20th anniversary of Angola's independence.
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Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun
by Roark Bradford
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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928. "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun ( Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man)". 264 pages.. Solid. Clean. Flyleaf detached from title page, but all pages still bound. A great collector's item and a rare find. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A.B. Walker. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction.
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Gone With The Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
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MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."
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The Temple Of My Familiar
by Alice Walker
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Alice Walker. THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR. Copyright 1989 by Alice Walker. Thorndyke, Maine. Hardcover, ISBN 9780896219298. Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1990. USED. VG CONDITION/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Large print. 595 pages. 5 5/8 X 8 ¾.
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Harlem On My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968
by Schoener, Allon (editor)
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As new except for tiny spot on side exterior page edges and light surface scratching on the back cover. 255 pages. 8.5" X 11" X .5" (22cm X 28cm X 1.3cm) History of Harlem as cultural center. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white photos of people and cultural ephemera like playbills, tickets to the Cotton Club, and advertising banners about the importance of Black Santa. Part of a project with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. Nonfiction. History. Photography. African American History. Regional History- New York.
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The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X
by T'Shaka, Oba
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T'Shaka, Oba. The Political Legacy Of Malcolm X. Third World Press, Chicago. Stated First Edition, First Printing Thus, 1983. Softcover. ISBN0883781107. BIOGRAPHY, BLACK STUDIES, AMERICAN HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY, POLITICAL SCIENCE. A nice copy. Used. VG Condition. 293 pages, indexed. 5 3/8 X 8 1/2.
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Black Ladies
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A photographic portrait of African women.
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The Rank of Charles Osborn as an Anti-Slavery Pioneer
by Julian, George W
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Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society, 1891. SCARCE. Very Good, wrappers evenly soiled, 1" paper loss at head of spine to wrappers, sticker shadow front wrapper, "State Historical Society of Wisconsin" blindstamp front wrapper and title page, and library call number "977.2" in ink top edge front wrapper and again on small sticker bottom edge of front wrapper. NO other libray markings. Indiana Historical Society Publications Vol. II, No. 6.. First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.
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Black English: An Annotated Bibliography.
by Leffall, Dolores and Johnson, James P. (compiled by)
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Washington, D.C.: The Minority Research Center, Inc., , 1973. Near Fine, light soiling to wrappers. 75.pp. Part One covers books, pamphlets, dissertations and papers read before interested groups. Part Two lists articles appearing in books and periodicals. "Black English", has been used in a loose sense. Included also are materials on dialects, slang, speech, language and linguistics. An important reference source, and uncommon. . First Edition. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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