MultiAmerica: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace
(New York): Viking, (1997). Hardcover. First edition. 468pp. Owner name on the front pastedown else fine in a fine dust jacket. More
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The American Race Problem: A Study of the Negro. Revised Edition
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (1938). Hardcover. Later printing of the revised edition. Octavo. xiii, 430pp. Navy blue cloth with light wear, light penstroke on topedge, and about 20 pages with a bumped corner, a near fine copy. More
The Black Ghetto: A Spatial Behavioral Perspective
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1971). Hardcover. First edition. 147pp. Some spotting on the page edges else near fine in a very good dust jacket with spotting, toning, and tiny tears. Part of the *McGraw-Hill Problems in Geography* Series. More
Chicago Breakdown
New York: Drake Publishers, (1975). Hardcover. First edition. 226pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Faint spotting on the top page edge else about fine in a very good dust jacket with toning, tears, and shallow chips. More
The Comic Imagination in American Literature
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, (1973). Hardcover. Second printing. xii, 430pp. Foxing on page edges, very good in a very good dust jacket with foxing, and a toned spine. More
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[Sheet music]: The Junk Man
New York: Weintraub Music Company, 1950. Softcover. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Bifolium neatly separated along the fold but both leaves are present, edgewear including some small nicks and tears, a dampstain on the front cover not affecting the interior, and age toning, a...... More
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Movement in Nineteenth-Century America
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, (1997). Hardcover. First edition. 270pp. Very good ex-library copy with usual library copies in a near fine dust jacket with a sticker on the spine. More
Cinema – Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1970
Beverly Hills, California: Spectator International, 1970. Softcover. Periodical. Quarto. 49pp. Illustrated. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Faint dampstains at the bottom margin of a few pages, creases and moderate edgewear, very good. Contains a six page article, "Black American Cinema: A Primer," by Norman Kagan. Also contains articles about Fellini, Parker Tyler..... More
Cinema – Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1970
Beverly Hills, California: Spectator International, 1970. Softcover. Periodical. Quarto. 49pp. Illustrated. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Creases and moderate edgewear, very good. Contains a six page article, "Black American Cinema: A Primer," by Norman Kagan. Also contains articles about Fellini, Parker Tyler, and more. More
Her First American
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Hardcover. First American edition. Some spotting on the page edges else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some edgewear. More
Mama Black Widow
Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Company, (1969). Softcover. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Some creasing else near fine. More
The Coretta Scott King Awards Book: From Vision to Reality
Chicago: American Library Association, (1994). Softcover. First edition, paperback original. Quarto. 113pp. Near fine in gently rubbed glossy wrappers. Inscribed by Smith: "With love for you dear Charlotte - Henrietta June, 1994." Smith was an important African-American library who was edited the Coretta Scott King Award and is noted for..... More
Last of the Conquerors
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948. Hardcover. First edition. Slight toning on the board edges and endpapers thus very good in a good only dust jacket with chips, creasing, and toning. Inscribed by the author to his high school teacher. African-American journalist's first novel. Scarce. More
Return to Black America
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, (1970). Hardcover. First edition. 185pp. Owner name on front pastedown, near fine in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket with a few small tears, rubbing, and a lightly toned spine. "A negro reporter's impressions after 16 years of self-exile." Smith returns to America as a French..... More
Collected Plays 1
London: Oxford University Press, 1973. Softcover. First edition. Printed purple wrappers. Light foxing on page edges, light edgewear, very good. A collection of plays by the Nigerian Nobel laureate. More
Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes (Formerly Index to Selected Periodicals) – Volume 16, 1965
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1966. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 50pp. Blue buckram, gilt-stamped spine. Ex-library with the usual markings, else very good. More
Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes (Formerly Index to Selected Periodicals) – Volume 17, 1966
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1967. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 46pp. Blue buckram, gilt-stamped spine. Ex-library with the usual markings, else very good. More
Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes (Formerly Index to Selected Periodicals) – Volume 18, 1967
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1968. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 42pp. Blue buckram, gilt-stamped spine. Ex-library with the usual markings, else very good. More
Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes (Formerly Index to Selected Periodicals) – Volume 19, 1968
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1969. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 32pp. Blue buckram, gilt-stamped spine. Ex-library with the usual markings, else very good. More
Index to Periodical Articles By and About Negroes (Formerly Index to Selected Periodicals) – Volume 20, 1969
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1970. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 45pp. Blue buckram, gilt-stamped spine. Ex-library with the usual markings, else very good. More
The Northern Teacher in the South 1862-1870
New York: Octagon, 1967. Hardcover. Reprint. 221pp. Slight rubbing on boards and spine, near fine, lacking a dust jacket. Swint was a faculty member of the Vanderbilt University History Department from 1939 to 1985. Originally published by Vanderbilt University Press in 1941. More
Understand This
New York: William Morrow and Company, (1994). Hardcover. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. More
Understand This
New York: William Morrow, 1994. Hardcover. First edition. A bit of spotting on cloth spine, near fine, without a dust jacket as issued in the advance copy. Advance Reading Copy with unglued publisher's wraparound band. More
A Bear for the FBI
New York: Trident Press, (1968). Hardcover. First American edition. Good only ex-library copy with usual library markings, some fading on the boards, and tape remnants in a very good dust jacket with some fading on the spine and toning. More
A Bear for the FBI
New York: Pocket Books, (1969). Softcover. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Wrappers with just a bit of wear, very near fine. More