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New York: The Dial Press, 1963 First edition, first printing. Publisher's cream cloth, lettered in red; in its original black dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon, lettered in red and orange, with photograph of Baldwin by Mottke Weissman to the rear panel. Near fine book, with light toning to spine, faint spot of thumbsoiling to p. 73; very good unclipped dust jacket, with light wear to spine ends, some light rubbing and creasing to edges, small closed tear to bottom of rear panel, and some light marks to panels and spine. Overall, a solid copy. This influential work by American writer and activist James Baldwin contains two essays, "My Dungeon Shook - Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down at the Cross - Letter from a Region of My Mind." Written during the height of the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's, these two essays put forth Baldwin's perspective on the struggle for Black liberation in the United States.…
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The Fire Next Time
by Baldwin, James
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My Bondage and My Freedom
by Douglass, Frederick
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New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855 Introduction by Dr. James McCune Smith. First edition, first printing. Original publishers brown cloth, with decoration in blind to boards, titles in gilt to spine, three engraved plates including frontispiece portrait of Douglass engraved by John Chester Buttre. Minor rubbing to cloth, spine lightly faded, touch of fraying to foot of spine, a bit of offsetting to endpapers, and pages lightly spotted. Overall, a very handsome copy, free of repairs or restoration. Extremely uncommon in this condition. Housed in a fine custom quarter-leather folding box. In My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass gives an account of his life as an enslaved person in Maryland and his eventual escape to the North. Almost three times the length of his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), My Bondage provides considerably more detail about Douglass time enslaved and updates his story to include some of the major…
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Signed Negro League Tribute to Leon Day Poster
by Lewis, Ron. [Day, Leon]
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1995 Color lithographic poster. 30" x 24.25". One of 1,200 numbered copies, signed by artist Ron Lewis at lower right, and 20 former Negro League baseball stars, including: Buck Leonard, Bill Cash, Monte Irvin, Armando Vazquez, Josh Johnson, Joe Black, Warren Peace, Russell Awkward, Sam Jethrowe, Verdell Mathis, Max Manning, Wilmer Fields, Stanley Glenn, Gene Benson, Mahlon Duckett, Al Wilmore, Nap Gulley, Buck O'Neil, Edsall Walker, and Wilmer Harris. Includes letter of authenticity, signed by Mrs. Leon Day and Richard Savoia. Leon Day (1916-95) is remembered as one of the greatest players and pitchers in the history of the Negro League, pitching for the Baltimore Black Sox, Newark Eagles, and Baltimore Elite Giants. He was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1995. Day's Newark Eagles teammate, Monte Irvin said: "People don't know what a great pitcher Leon Day was. He was as good or better than Bob Gibson. He was a better fielder, a better hitter, could run like a…
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