New York; (1938): Platt and Munk. First Edition. Octavo. 24 unnumbered pages, some in color. The story of a small African-American boy who became tired of the chores his grandparents assigned to him so he ran away. Bound in light blue cloth, color pictorial pasdown. color pictorial endpapers, some rubbing..... More
San Francisco, CA (1929): Pilot Publishing Co. First Edition. Octavo. 64(1) pp. Louis Baldwin was instrumental in bringing the first National Negro Businessmen's Convention to Boston in 1900, which was organized by Booker T. Washington. Baldwin was a member of the planning committee for the convention and was made member..... More
Paris: G.P. Maisonneuve et Larose, 1966. First Edition. Thick Large Octavo. cxxxiv, 462 pages. French text with 63 full page plates, some with color in outline, divided into five parts: (1) a set of "propositions" describing successive migrations out of the drought-ridden Sahara by Pygmies, Paleonoirs, and Bovidiens-Fulbt, and the..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 259pp., DuBois, among his many achievements, was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and it was his voice which was for many years generally accepted in America as the voice of..... More
New York; (1941): Citadel Press. Thick Octavo. . xvi, 1082 pages, index. It covers the writings from Phyllis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass to Richard Wright, Langston Hughes and Chester Himes. This massive work is a classic including also the last fifty pages of the institutional racism in the American South;..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 307(1)pp. Author's first novel. Fisher was an American short-story writer and novelist associated with the Harlem Renaissance whose fiction realistically depicted Black urban life in the North, primarily Harlem. A near fine copy bound in a deep brown trimmed in red..... More
New York; (1914): G. Schirmer. Octavo. Fourth Edition. 176 pages, index, musical scores. A marvelous study of the range and uniqueness of African American music that arose in the slave period. In the chapter, Variations from the Major Scale, states the adjustments with the flat seven in the major and..... More
New Bedfore, MA; (1932): Reynolds Press. First Edition. Small Octavo. 99pp., with a foreword by John Haynes Holmes. In this play, the author presents the problem of the American negro emancipated into a society which will not receive him. The background of the play is the long struggle of the..... More
New York; (1948): Harper and Brothers. First Edition. Octavo. 256pp., Inscribed by the author. Here, the author describes the thirteen views of how the solvent of Christian practice may be applied to "America's number one problem" race relations. William Stuart Nelson (1895-1977) was an expert on nonviolence, a civil rights..... More
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 142pp. The author brings together factual material and critical opinion on Negro literature in a history of Negro thought in America. This is a field of American literature he said should not be ignored. He points out the..... More
New York; (1951): Harper and Brothers. First Edition. Octavo. 212 pages. A rare fine first edition copy in the scarce dust jacket of one of Howard Thurman's rarest books, signed by him on the title page. His theology of radical nonviolence influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights activists..... More
Mills College, CA: Eucalyptus Press, 1945. First Edition. Octavo. 39 pages. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket of the scarce first edition of one of Howard Thurman's most important books. He shows the outlook of the slaves and how it was interpreted in preaching. His profound..... More
New York; (1941): Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill Book Co. First Edition. Octavo. . Portrait frontispiece. 270pp., Illustrated with photographic images following Anderson's rise to fame. In 1939, Anderson stood before the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and, with the greatest voice of that generation, staged before an assemblage of 75,000 people. Cabinet members..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Partially unopened. One of the the rarest works on the Scottsboro case. The author wrote the most powerful play of prison life that America has yet produced. The subject is generally regarded as a case so shocking and moving..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 382pp., Walter White was a light-skinned Black man whose ancestors had been enslaved. For years White risked his life investigating racial violence in the South. He later became assistant secretary of the National Association for the advancement of colored people and..... More
Cleveland and New York, (1956): World Publishing Company. First Edition. Octavo. 221 pages. Richard Wright's time in the 1955 Bandung Conference. This was the most important early conference for people of color who saw the world through non-Western eyes. He had left his membership in the Communist party in 1944..... More