Stories and Fairy Tales by Hans Christan Andersen - 1893

xiv+317 pages with two page title. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine with blind-stamped decoration to cover in original publisher's pictorial jacket. Singed by the author on former owner's book plate by the author, dates 2/14/65 on front end paper. First edition.Shadow and Act is a collection of essays by Ralph Ellison, published in 1964. The writings encompass the two decades that began with Ellison's involvement with African-American political activism and print media in Harlem, Ellison's emergence as a highly acclaimed writer with the publication of Invisible Man, and culminating with his 1964 challenge of Irving Howe's characterization of African-American life, "Black Boys and Native Sons", with his now famous essay, "The World and the Jug". Ellison described it as exemplary of his "attempt to transform some of the themes, the problems, the enigmas, the contradictions of character and culture native to my predicament, into what Andre… Read More

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), 1997. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, xxx+610pp, pictorial boards (no jacket, as issued). Massive and groundbreaking study of this important African-American spiritual practitioner. Includes index, notes and bibliography. An unmarked copy of the legitimate original 1997 hardcover first printing (not the later print-on-demand version) from the collection of poet and esotericist David Meltzer. Minor outer wear and erased resale markings to front free endpaper.

[African Americans] Negroes in the United States. Washington: Government printing Office. 1916. Second edition. Green printed wraps. 31 cm. Illustrated. Maps. Charts. 207 pp. Other title: United States Bureau of the Census. Bulletin 129. Covers chipped and stained. Interior very good.
OCLC shows only two holdings in Texas (Univ. North Texas & Texas Tech Univ.) Scarce today. Originally published in 1915 and reprinted the following year. Prepared in the Division of revisions and results under the general supervision of Dr. Joseph A. Hill, expert special agent. The statistical tables were planned and arranged by ... Charles E. Hall, William Jennifer, and Robert A. Pelham. Much useful information.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. Oblong small quarto, 208pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, with some foxing to the edges. In the scarce dust jacket, very good or better, with a dampstain at the base. A wonderful visual and textual document of rural Black musicians in the American south. Mitchell, an accomplished photographer, conducted interviews with all of the musicians, and adapted these into prose narratives. Mitchell has spent most of his career in Atlanta, and he published a volume of photographs of various figures and establishments on Ponce de Leon Avenue in his 1983 book "Ponce de Leon." His first book, the one offered here, is rare in dust jacket.

New York: The Floating Bear, 1961. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 12pp (mimeographed), corner-stapled. A rare early issue of this seminal 1960s little magazine. Includes an excerpt from The System of Dante's Hell by Jones and Roosevelt After Inauguration by William Burroughs (Schottlaender v4.C25; Shoaf III-25). An unmarked copy, never folded or mailed, with stains to back cover and a little toning.

127 pages with plates including frontispiece. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with pictorial decorative brown, black, white and gilt front cover, lettering in gilt. Illustrated with photographs by Hampton Institute Camera Club. Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. (BAL 4937) First edition, first state with red and black lettering tot title.Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio to parents who had escaped from slavery; his father was a veteran of the American Civil War, having served in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and the 5th Massachusetts Colored Cavalry Regiment. His parents instilled in him a love of learning and history. He was a student at an all-white high school, Dayton Central High School, and he participated actively as a student. During high school, he was both the editor of the school newspaper and class president, as well as the president of the school literary society. Dunbar had also started the first African-American newsletter in Dayton. He wrote his… Read More

xiv+317 pages with two page title. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine with blind-stamped decoration to cover in original publisher's pictorial jacket. Singed by the author on former owner's book plate by the author, dates 2/14/65 on front end paper. First edition.Shadow and Act is a collection of essays by Ralph Ellison, published in 1964. The writings encompass the two decades that began with Ellison's involvement with African-American political activism and print media in Harlem, Ellison's emergence as a highly acclaimed writer with the publication of Invisible Man, and culminating with his 1964 challenge of Irving Howe's characterization of African-American life, "Black Boys and Native Sons", with his now famous essay, "The World and the Jug". Ellison described it as exemplary of his "attempt to transform some of the themes, the problems, the enigmas, the contradictions of character and culture native to my predicament, into what Andre… Read More

Albany, NY: State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), 1997. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, xxx+610pp, pictorial boards (no jacket, as issued). Massive and groundbreaking study of this important African-American spiritual practitioner. Includes index, notes and bibliography. An unmarked copy of the legitimate original 1997 hardcover first printing (not the later print-on-demand version) from the collection of poet and esotericist David Meltzer. Minor outer wear and erased resale markings to front free endpaper.

[African Americans] Negroes in the United States. Washington: Government printing Office. 1916. Second edition. Green printed wraps. 31 cm. Illustrated. Maps. Charts. 207 pp. Other title: United States Bureau of the Census. Bulletin 129. Covers chipped and stained. Interior very good.
OCLC shows only two holdings in Texas (Univ. North Texas & Texas Tech Univ.) Scarce today. Originally published in 1915 and reprinted the following year. Prepared in the Division of revisions and results under the general supervision of Dr. Joseph A. Hill, expert special agent. The statistical tables were planned and arranged by ... Charles E. Hall, William Jennifer, and Robert A. Pelham. Much useful information.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. Oblong small quarto, 208pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, with some foxing to the edges. In the scarce dust jacket, very good or better, with a dampstain at the base. A wonderful visual and textual document of rural Black musicians in the American south. Mitchell, an accomplished photographer, conducted interviews with all of the musicians, and adapted these into prose narratives. Mitchell has spent most of his career in Atlanta, and he published a volume of photographs of various figures and establishments on Ponce de Leon Avenue in his 1983 book "Ponce de Leon." His first book, the one offered here, is rare in dust jacket.