A Brief Vignette from Tar Baby by [AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES] MORRISON, TONI - 1981

Trenton, New Jersey: Printed by David Naar, "True American" Office, 1864. Near Fine condition. Clean and tight. Three tiny chips near the spine. A very attractive copy, remarkably well preserved, especially considering the age (published 1864) and fragility of its thin paper binding. SEE PHOTOS. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Includes Ricord's report to Joel Parker, Governor of New Jersey, on the condition of the state's public schools. A substantial appendix lists reports by the various town superintendents in each of 21 counties from Atlantic to Warren. Since this report was published while the Civil War was still being fought, the section on "Schools for Colored Children" may be of some interest: "There is no section of the law nor any decision of the courts that deprives colored children of the advantages of public school instruction… it shall be the duty of the trustees of the several school districts to apply the… Read More

This is the landmark three-volume set, each individually signed, by late tennis great Arthur Ashe. From the jacket(s): "A Hard Road to Glory, a three-volume work, is the definitive history of black athletes in this country and a milestone in the presentation of United States social and cultural life.... A major contribution to both black history and American history, A Hard Road to Glory is the saga of African-American athletes, from their seventeenth-century ancestral homelands to the present." All 3 volumes are illustrated with B/W photos, and include a reference section, sources list, and index.
A description of each volume follows:
Volume 1
1619-1918
Book Description: Warner Books, New York, NY, 1988. First printing. Number line 10-2. Book Condition: FINE. Binding is tight and square. No extraneous marks or writing. Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE. Not price clipped ($29.95). No chips or tears. Signed on half-title page: "Peace, Arthur Ashe, For Joe," (The comma at the end of both the 1st… Read More

Chicago, Brothers of the Book, 1917. First Edition. Soft Cover. [8] p.; 17 cm. Poem by Jamaican-born African American poet and journalist P. Alberty . "Proceeds go to the Chicago Committee of the American Fund for the French Wounded." The poem was the title of a 1921 collection of Roberts's poems. This is the rare first printing. Slightly soiled; held together with red, white & blue ribbon; very good. Stock#OB517.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 First printing of the stated first edition. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear/crease to top edge of the front cover, diagonal crease to top corner of front and back flaps, a touch of rubbing to back cover, and light wear to spine ends, else fine. A beautiful copy of a very scarce title.

New York: Westside Committee to Free Angela, 1971 Two pieces of Angela Davis ephemera: 1) An original pictorial flyer/ broadside from the Westside Committee to Free Angela Davis, displayed in a two-way glass frame. A small nick to top edge and light wear, else in fine condition; 2) An original printing of the People's Petition Demanding Bail for Angela Davis (New York: National United Committee to Free Angela Davis), in fine condition and displayed in the two-way glass frame on the verso of the Dance for Freedom flyer.

Original illustrated wrappers, tall 8vo (7 1/4 x 9 3/4), includes 12 full page illustrations in addition to wrapper illustrations. Notes and musical score on inside covers. Wrappers are chipped, and there are a cople of pieces missing from the top of the back cover, but don't appear to be affecting text. Spine is split but holding, thanks to tape spine; some minor soiling. The song 'Ten Little Niggers' emerged from the minstrel shows in the South shortly after the Civil War.These shows became increasingly racist as time went on. They were known as Jim Crow shows and then became coon shows. While 'Ten Little Niggers' would appear in Children's nursery rhyme books, there real purpose was to present blacks in demeaning ways. Tffany M.B. Anderson: "Ten Little Niggers": The Making of a Black Man's Consciousness.

1576 Boemus Legles et Ritus Customs of Asia Africa India Persia China AmericaJohann Boemus was an early 16th-century German ethnographer who is chiefly remembered for his work 'Leges et Ritus', originally published in 1520. This work is an account of customs and laws of Africa, Asia, and Europe. This rare book includesa detailed history of Tartary including merchant and trade activityPersian soldiers – training and clothing"the strange ways" of IndiaLands that produce only white menConnections of law and cultureEditions subsequent to the 1542 edition include some of the first written observations of Americans, according to Sabin. This book was also important in that it was considered to have a direct influence on Sebastian Muenster's 'Cosmography'. (Lach, 336)Item number: #5517Price: $950BOEMUS, Johann Mores, leges et ritus omnium gentium, a Joanne Boëmo ... - ex multis clarissimis rerum scriptoribus collectiLugduni: apud Bartholomaeum Vincentium, 1576.Details: Collation: Complete with all pages… Read More

LECTURES on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery As Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery In the United States with the Duties of Masters to Slaves.
William A Smith DD, President of Randolph-Macon College And Professor Of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy
Edited by Thomas O Summers, DD Stevenson and Evans 1856, Nashville, Tenn Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by WILLIAM A. SMITH, In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY A. A. STITT, SOUTHERN METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSE, NASHVILLE, TENN.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The book consists of thirteen lectures on the subject of slavery as was given to students of Moral Science in Randolph Macon College. The author presents lectures on the various components of slavery. His main reason for agreeing with the institution is that is "a fundamental… Read More

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wright II 1893. Extra vignette title, frontis, and illustration. Anti-slavery novel. Hardcover Condition: Brown cloth cover with gilt spine spine title. Spine chipped at bottom. Front pastedown cracked at gutter but hinge still strong. Slight spine slant. Boards have toning. Interior pages clean. Ownership inscription on FFEP (appears to be in pencil).

New York: Alfred A. Knopf / A Borzoi Book, 1981 First printing of the stated first trade edition, preceded by the Franklin Library edition. Signed by Toni Morrison directly on the front endpage. Very slight crease to top corner of the first three leaves, else book in fine condition; in a fine dust jacket. A superb copy.