Who's Got Game? The Lion or The Mouse?
New York: Scribner, (2003). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre. Small quarto. A couple of tiny spots of foxing else fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Toni Morrison. More
Catalog 256 contains 106 items, including signed and inscribed first editions, photo albums, hand-written manuscripts, broadsides, posters, and more!
Download PDF of African-Americana, Africa, & the African DiasporaNew York: Scribner, (2003). Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre. Small quarto. A couple of tiny spots of foxing else fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Toni Morrison. More
Softcover. 12 leaves typed rectos only. Stapled in upper left corner. Edgewear, small coffee stains on top sheet, hand titled "The Creative Process" in Albert Murray's hand above the typed title. After an introductory third-person paragraph (almost certainly written by Murray himself) the rest of the manuscript consists of a...... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1995. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. Fine in near fine dustjacket with some light wear at the spine ends and small crease on rear panel. Signed on the title page by seven of the contributors: Alice Walker, Rita Dove, Edwidge Danticat, Charles Johnson, Edward P...... More
Philadelphia: New Arts Productions, 1997. Softcover. First edition. Illustrations by Anthony Lewis and Ronele Gober. Octavo. 45, [1]pp. Illustrated. Slight smudge on rear wrap, address of Dajuan Williams inside rear wrap in an unknown hand, else about fine. Warmly Inscribed by both author to the Black journalist and author Justine..... More
Unbound. Serigraph on artist's paper for the cover of Ringgold's children's book *Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True* (2011). Approximately 30" x 22". Hand-titled and Signed and dated October 27, 2010 by Ringgold. Image of a young Black boy and his clergyman father watching a Black painter in..... More
Eau Claire, Wis. Published by the author / James H. Tifft, Publishing Printer, 1913. Hardcover. Third edition (following editions of 1903 and 1907, both rare). Small octavo. 200pp. Illustrated, plates, portraits, color plate of the American flag. Silver-stamped red cloth. Lacking the rear endpaper, several pencil markings on one leaf..... More
New York: Delacorte Press, (1976). Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. Illustrated. A bit of foxing on the page edges, and a little light soiling on the boards, very good or better in near fine dustjacket with a little toning and tiny tears. History of Black baseball players by a Black..... More
Harlem: Published by the author, 1983. Softcover. First edition. 12 full page illustrations by G. Falcon Beezer. Octavo. 29pp. Perfectbound illustrated wrappers. Price inked on title page else fine. A history, mostly intended for a juvenile audience, of the use of capoeira, an African-Brazilian form of self-defense invented by African..... More
(New York: Togetherness Productions, 1970). Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 52pp. Toning and stains along the spine, not affecting the interior pages, very good or better. Early and possibly first book from the multitalented Saundra Sharp, who appeared on Broadway in *Hello, Dolly!*, made her film debut in Gordon Parks' *The..... More
New York: Lawrence N. Shustak, [1964]. Unbound. Portfolio. Brown textured paper over boards with ribbon ties. Title stenciled, and author's signature on front board. Seven bifolia (folded card leaves) with a total of 12 mounted photographs. Some sunning and a light drink ring on front board of the portfolio, and..... More
At Sea: U.S.S. Orizaba, 1918. Unbound. A single loose issue of this shipboard newsletter. Horizontal folds with small tears at the ends, very good. Single sheet printed both sides. A newsletter edited and probably largely written by Dr. Skillern for the U.S.S. *Orizaba*, which was transporting a large number of..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. Hardcover. First edition. Foreword by Duke Ellington. Octavo. 318pp. Small label and a single short ink stroke on front fly, else near fine in slightly rubbed and spine-sunned very good dustjacket. Inscribed on the rear fly leaf by Smith: "Best of Luck to my friend Ray..... More
Johannesburg: Biograph Film Co., 1974. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. Unpaged. Illustrated from photographs. Pictorial papercovered boards. Boards a little rubbed and one corner bumped, else near fine. Attractive picture book of the daily life of a young South African girl and her family. The publication information seems to infer that..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. Hardcover. Third edition. 16mo. Original brown foliated publisher's cloth gilt. Contemporary name ("Nath. R. Woodhouse, Hartford"), scattered foxing throughout, a little trifling wear at the spine ends, very good or better. The life of Robert Matthews, a notorious New York State religious eccentric who..... More
Los Angeles: One Stop Posters, 1973. Unbound. Large black light poster. Measuring 22½" x 35". Color screen print. Signed by artist George Stone in the print. Captioned "Black Pearl" with publication information in the lower margin. A couple of tiny tears in the margins, else very near fine. Large image..... More
Chicago / [Los Angeles]: One Stop Posters / Atlas International, [1973?]. Unbound. Large black light poster. Measuring 23" x 35”. Color screen print. Captioned "Panther" with publication information in the lower margin. Unsigned by the artist in the print, but other known examples bear the name of George Stowe and..... More
Cincinnati: M.W. Taylor and W.C. Echols, 1882. Hardcover. First edition. Copied by Miss Amelia C. and Hettie G. Taylor. Octavo. 262pp., engraved frontispiece portrait, many musical scores. Elaborately gilt front cover diptych contrasting "slave days" with "freedom days." Bottom corner of the title page lacking affecting a few words, rear..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, (1972). Hardcover. First edition. Photographs by Catherine Hughes. Octavo. 114pp. Near fine with miniscule spots on the front board and four pages creased in a slightly toned, near fine dust jacket rubbed and creased on the rear flap fold. Advance Review Copy with the publisher's..... More
Chicago: Private Edition, 1931. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. 74pp. Black cloth with printed paper labels. Fine in fine dust jacket. Limited to 1000 numbered copies, this copy is unnumbered. Toomer's second book. His first, the novel *Cane*, was the first book of the Harlem Renaissance. Our observation based on several..... More
Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., [1895]. Hardcover. First edition, American issue. Oblong quarto. Quarter cloth and illustrated paper over boards. Slight soiling on the boards, a very nice near fine copy. The black Golliwogg doll entertains two new dolls that are sent to the U.S. from abroad. More
New York: James Van Der Zee / G.G.G. Photo Studio, Inc., 1930. Unbound. Original gelatin silver bromide portrait photograph of actress Fanny Belle De Knight in her "Mammy" costume. Image size approximately 8" x 10". Signed "Van Der Zee, N.Y.C. 1930" in the plate, and stamped on the verso with..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Hardcover. Fourteenth printing. Very good with edges slightly bumped, a touch cocked and with paper remnant on the rear board, possibly from the now missing jacket. With the bookplate of African-American poet Mari Evans on the front pastedown. A novel about a young couple..... More
Stockholm: Hugo Gebers Forlag, (1904). Hardcover. First Swedish edition. Translated by Cecilia Milow. Small octavo. 236, [4]pp. Quarter leather gilt and paper over boards. Swedish bookplate, rubbing along the spine and edges of the boards, small tears at the crown, a sound very good copy. A cornerstone of African-American autobiography..... More
Harlem: Afram Associates, Incorporated, 1969. Softcover. First edition. Two mimeographed leaves printed rectos only. A couple of small stains and old not very noticeable horizontal folds, very good or better. An essay on the word fuck by an African-American man who, among other conclusions decides it could be an acronym..... More
New York: Vantage Press, (1970). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 96pp. [2] leaves of inserted plates. Fine in near fine dustjacket with a small chip at the crown of the thin spine. Memoir by a young African-American woman from Louisiana who had been inspired by attending speeches given by Dr. Martin..... More