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Black Populism in the United States An Annotated Bibliography

By: Adam, Anthony J. & Gerald H. Gaither

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Westport, CT, Praeger Publishers: 2004

Seller ID: 33812

ISBN: 0313324395

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Ut with ex-library indications including a catalog label at spine and light attachments to endpages. Mild sunning at spine. Snug with clean text; condition graded down to reflect prior institutional ownership indications but generally about VG. G+ thus; Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Studies; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 227 pages; HC in original port red cloth with titles in gilt. Snugly bound with clean contents, but with ex-library indications including residue of a catalog label at spine and light attachments to endpages. Snug with clean text; condition graded...
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The Hemings family of Monticello

By: Bear, James Adam

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Ivy, VA, Anthoensen Press: 1980

Seller ID: 34837

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

facsimile documet reproductions; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 18 pages; 1980. Paperback offset printed by Anthoensen Press from an initial appearance in the Virginia Cavalcade magazine. Ivy, VA. Slim volume in title lettered, card stock covers with saddle stapled binding. Illustrated with a photo and several facsimile reproductions of documents. Bright clean copy. VG+
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An American Crisis; Congress and Reconstruction 1865-1867

By: Brock, W. R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1963

Seller ID: 42746

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; HC/DJ. 1st edition. Snugly bound and clean in original dust jacket. Jacket price clipped front flap with light toning to whites of the design; a few short closed tears at edges. Superficial foxing to endpages. VG+/VG
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King of the Delta Blues, The Life and Music of Charlie Patton

By: Calt, Stephen & Gayle Wardlow

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Newton, NJ, Rock Chapel Press: 1988

Seller ID: 41084

ISBN: 0961861002

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

B&W Photographs; R. Crumb cover art; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages; Paperback original. 1st printing. Trade size paperback in glossy color illustrated covers. Soundly bound and generally neat with flat uncreased spine and just light shelf evidence to cover edges. Light splash stain to front edge; a few pages slightly dogeared. Illustrated with b&w photos along with R. Crumb color graphic cover. VG-
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Harriet Tubman : Negro Soldier and Abolitionist

By: Conrad, Earl

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, International Publishers: 1942

Seller ID: 42280

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 47 pages; Thin 47 page trade size paperback in pictorial wraps. Publisher's 15 cent price printed on the lower edge of the cover. Covers surface rubbed with a small area of surface scratches/barasions. Rubbing and light stressing to spine edge. Soundly bound with clean unmarked contents. This preliminary biographical treatment by Conrad was published a year prior to the substantial hardcover biography published in 1943 by Associated Publishers. Conrad amassed a considerable body of research material for his important biography, which now are held at the Schomburg Center for ...
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Reggae International

By: Davis, Stephen & Peter Simon

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Rogner & Bernhard: 1982

Seller ID: 41483

ISBN: 0394713133

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Color and B&W Photographs; square 4to 11" - 13" tall; 191 pages; Oversize, square format paperback in glossy color illustrated covers. 1st edition, 1st printing. Soundly bound and clean with light shelf rubbing to covers at corner tips and edges. Mild curl to the cover at the front edge. Impressive range in this profile of the beginnings and performers of Reggae, with interviews, photogrpahs etc. VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Reggae Bloodlines; In Search of the Music and Culture of Jamaica

By: Davis, Stephen & Peter Simon (Photos)

Price: $22.50

Publisher: New York, Doubleday Anchor: 1977

Seller ID: 41740

ISBN: 0385123302

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 216 pages; Oversize paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Snugly bound and clean. Light shelf and handling wear to cover edges. VG
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Religion in the Quarters : A Study of Slave Preachers in the Antebellum South, 1800-1860

By: Dennard, David C.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, University Microfilms International :: Northwestern University: 1986

Seller ID: 33734

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 332 pages; Authorized facsimile reprinting of Dennard's 1983 dissertation submitted for a degree in Doctor of Philosophy. Hardcover soundly bound in blue cloth with titles in gilt to spine. A little tenderness in the joints; a small number of pages corner creased. Ex-library with expected but light institutional indications. G
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Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation; The Story of the Emancipation Proclamation

By: Donovan, Frank Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co: 1964

Seller ID: 42832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 146 pages; 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Binding just slightly shelf cocked in the spine; light foxing to page block edges. Jacket shelf rubbed with a few shallow nicks at edges. VG-/VG-
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My Bondage and My Freedom: Part I - Life As a Slace. Part II - Life As a Freeman

By: Douglass, Frederick

Price: $1,395.00

Publisher: New York & Auburn, Miller, Orton & Mulligan: 1855

Seller ID: 39018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

frontis and 2 plates; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 464 pages; 1st edition. Engraved frontis portrait from a daguerrotype by J. C. Buttre. Full page plates by N. Orr facing the first page of the separate parts at pp 33 & 335. Soundly bound in original trade cloth. Cloth rubbed, worn and fading; boards rubbed and brusied at corners; cloth with shallow chipping and loss at spine ends. Gilt stamping at spine fading; mild damp fade to cloth of lower board. Endpages complete and intact; several signatures starting at front edge. Small open gouge to the bottom margin of several leaves pp 85-90;...
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A Tribute to the Martyred Leader of Non-Violence Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

By: Duvalier, Fraqncois

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Port-au-prince, Haiti, Presses Nationales: 1968

Seller ID: 42024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket

Toned b&w photos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 167 pages; HC/DJ. 1st edition. Tightly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright dust jacket. Two silk bookmarks sewn in. Illustrated with toned b&w photos. Expected mild imperfections with offset toning to the lining pages. Feels and appears unread in immaculate dust jacket. NF/NF
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Gateway to Freedom; The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

By: Foner, Eric

Price: $18.50

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 2015

Seller ID: 42770

ISBN: 0393244075

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

B&W Photographs & Reproductions; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 320 pages; 1st printing. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $26.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Illustrated with b&w photos and reproductions printed on glossy stock. Handsome copy. About as new. F/F
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Reconstruction after the Civil War

By: Franklin, John Hope

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1961

Seller ID: 42760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Chicago History Of American Civilization; B&W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages; 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $5.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Text clean and unmarked. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed with a few superficial nicks at edges. Just mild shelf soiling to jacket surfaces. VG/VG
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After Redemption; Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915

By: Giggie, John M.

Price: $13.95

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 2007

Seller ID: 36105

ISBN: 0195304047

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 336 pages; Trade sized paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Bright, tight and fresh. Feels and appears unread. Illustrated with b&w photographs. About as new. NF
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Santeria, Bronx

By: Gleason, Judith Illsley

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1975

Seller ID: 42808

ISBN: 0689304471

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 223 pages; Snugly bound and neat in original color pictorial dust jacket from a painting by Jerry Pinkney. Jacket is clean and uniformly bright with publisher's $7.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap; light shelf rubbing with several short nicks along the top edge. Text bright and clean in sound full cloth binding. Trace dust spotting top edge. Uncommon. VG++/VG
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Porgy

By: Heyward, Du Bose & Theodore Nadejen (Illust)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: 1925

Seller ID: 40356

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 196 pages; HC/DJ. Soundly bound copy in original dust jacket with striking blue/black wraparound pictorial design. Bound in black cloth with titles in fuchsia. Prior owner name and address penned to front endpage. She has filled verso of flyleaf and front free end[age with a manuscript reproduction of a notice from the 1935 November "Pictorial Review" dealing with Porgy. Dust jacket shelf rubbed at edges with some shallow nicks at tips. Old paper tape reinforcement to reverse surface of hjacket at spine ends and top edge of the rear panel. Spine jus...
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Thaddeus Stevens As a Lancaster Politician, 1842-1868 [In] Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society, V. 78, No. 4

By: Hoelscher, Robert J

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Lancaster, Lancaster County Historical Society: 1974

Seller ID: 34826

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 54 pages; Issue of the journal devoted almost entirely to Hoelscher's extended study. Solid copy with 4 or 5 illustrations. VG to VG+
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Epitome of Thought

By: Johnson, Rasberry & Shelvia Cavette (Ed. )

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NA, Rasberry Johnson: 1986

Seller ID: 36063

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 71 pages; [SIGNED] 1986 Rasberry Johnson (self-published). Trade sized paperback in glossy title lettered covers. Soundly bound and clean but with a small sticker scar to the cover and some light general shelf evidence to cover edges and surfaces. Signed by the author on the dedication page. Several illustrations from drawings. VG-; Signed by Author
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Slavery and Race in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana-French Literature

By: Jones, John Maxwell

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NP, Jones: 1978

Seller ID: 41318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 222 pages; HC/DJ. Snugly bound and fresh in original title lettered dust jacket. Feels and appears unread; just superficial toning / soiling to jacket surface front panel. NF/VG
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White over Black American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

By: Jordan, Winthrop D.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press: 1968

Seller ID: 42650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 651 pages; Stout HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original dust jacket with publisher's $12.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Black cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine. Dust jacket slightly toned to whites of the graphic design with light shelf rubbing and some shallow nicks and short tears to edges. A small number of pages with a shallow stress crease to the lower front corner; appears that the book may have been pushed onto a narrow metal book end. Contents bright and clean with no marks. Formative work, the winner of the National ...
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Category: African American Studies