New York: Stein and Day Publishers [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-253, [3] pp. Quarter red cloth over beige paper boards, lettered in gold on the front board and spine. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a photograph frontispiece of Bessie..... More
New York: Random House [1997], 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 3-145, [5] pp. Quarter black cloth over purple paper boards with copper lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $18.00 on front flap of dust jacket. Tiny spot of discoloration on rear pastedown; corresponding spot on reverse..... More
New York: Random House [1969], 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 4-281, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine; red topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn, Collected Books, p. 75. Angelou's first book, an autobiography detailing her..... More
[Washington DC]: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1976. First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. 23 c.m. x 14.2 c.m. [3], iv-vi, [3], 2-72 pp. Pamphlet. Green and grey glossy wrappers printed in white, black, and brown, the front wrapper with an illustration of Frederick Douglass. Illustrated with full-page and..... More
Waco, Texas: Word Books Publisher [1978], 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 13-240 pp. Black paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few pages of black and white photographs from Cleaver's life. A sequel to..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [3], 3-210, [6] pp. Blue cloth with green lettering on the front board and spine, white lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket photo by Jim Ball. Introduction..... More
New York: Friendship Press, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-x, [2], 3-180, [2] pp. Black cloth with an orange label printed in black pasted on the front board light green lettering on the spine. Twelve short biographies of prominent Black individuals who worked to better their respective communities in..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company [1971], 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [8], 9-256 pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $9.50 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several full-page and in-text black and white photographs of Louis and his life. A faint crease..... More
Ginza, Tokyo: Kyo Bun Kwan [1939], 1939. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. [8], 1-230 pp. Glossy silver wrappers with a paper label printed in green, red, and black. Housed in a beige slipcase with a paper label printed in brown. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and with eleven..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1969), 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-ix, [4], 2-372 pp. White cloth with gold lettering on the front board and gold lettering blocked in black on the spine. Price of $6.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white..... More
Washington DC: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1972. First edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. 23 c.m. x 14.9 c.m. [3], 2-78 pp. Pamphlet. Black wrappers printed in white, a photograph of Booker T. Washington on the front wrapper. Price of $1.35 on the copyright page. Illustrated with full-page photographs..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-191, [1] pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited with an introductory essay by Archie Epps. With an advanced..... More
[New York]: A Lipper/Viking Book (1999), 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [10], 1-148 pp. Quarter tan cloth over pictorial boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $19.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Mild sunning to the spine and a small corner crease to the..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-365, [7] pp. Quarter silver cloth over black cloth with silver lettering on the front board and black lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Reflective silver endpapers and pastedowns printed in white. Price of $6.95 on the front flap..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers (1976), 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 170, [2] pp. Beige cloth with brown and dark red lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $10.00 on front flap of jacket. Includes several black and white photographs. A Very near Fine book..... More
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 10-452, [4] pp. Quarter black cloth over yellow paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Inscribed by Morris on the free front endpaper. Morris' book tells the story of Marcus Dupree's college football recruitment, and how it..... More
Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1853. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, [1], 18-336, [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with decorations and borders in blind on each board, gilt lettering on the spine.Yellow coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and with six additional plates. States..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xi, [3], 3-244 pp. Yellow cloth with red lettering on the front board and spine; yellow topstain. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece portrait of Tecumseh. A biography of the Shawnee chief..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons [1972], 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-287, [1] pp. Navy cloth with 'JR' in gilt on the front board, spine lettered in gilt. White and grey patterned endpapers and pastedowns. Jacket designed by Tony Greco. A presentable copy of Robinson's autobiography, as told..... More
New York: Random House [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-xi, [4], 4-429, [5] pp. Brown cloth with a decoration in red on the front board (Seale bound to a chair), red lettering on the spine. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket illustration..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press [2001], 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 2-346, [4] pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a full-page black and white photograph of each essay's author. Edited by R. David Edmunds. With essays from various Native American authors, activists, and scholars..... More
Toronto, Ont. J.L. Nichols & Co. [1901], 1901. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-423, [1] pp. Purple cloth with black lettering and decorations on the front board, gilt lettering and black decorations on the spine. With photo-engravings and original pen drawings by Frank Beard (most of these are full-page, a few..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [1], 1-330 pp. Maroon vertically-ribbed cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. ANB, William F. Mugleston, "Washington, Booker T. (05 April 1856?–14 November..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [1], 1-330 pp. Maroon vertically-ribbed cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. ANB, William F. Mugleston, "Washington, Booker T. (05 April 1856?–14 November..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-x, [2], 3-246 pp. Vertically-ribbed maroon publisher's cloth with white lettering and two white rules on the front board and on the spine; grey topstain. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait (a black and white photograph) of the author..... More