First Edition. A scarce signed copy of an important contribution to American business history. "Following in a tradition of black scholars such as Henry Minton, Booker T. Washington, and WEB Du Bois, Pierce published a major study in 1947 entitled Negro Business and Business Education. His scholarship is timeless.... The.....

First Edition. "One of the first written records of African American life in Austin by a black Austinite.... a work of extraordinary importance." Written by members of a Negro history class at Austin's historically Black Samuel Huston College (now Huston-Tillotson University), this book sets out to use documents and personal.....

First Edition. A scarce offprint from one of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics. This short paper expands on a work by F. A. Ross "in time series analysis where straight lines and more complex curves are fitted as secular trends." This is the third of.....

First Edition. One of the most important American music books of the nineteenth century, a landmark cross-genre survey that gave equal attention to sacred and secular as well as popular and classical music. "This volume stands as the very first survey of American music published in this country" ("Black Scholars.....

Later printing. Daniel's doctoral dissertation, "probably the first one in sociology by an African American" (Blasi, American Sociology of Religion: Histories, p. 29). Based upon a survey of the theological schools for negroes in the United States made by Robert L. Kelly and W.A. Daniel. "Few familes in America can.....

First Edition. An inscribed first edition of this hugely successful popular history of African Americans, written by the history editor of Ebony magazine. According to Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. by James West, Before the Mayflower went on to sell more than one million copies and it remained in.....

First British edition. An uncommon first UK edition of one of the great American novels. Morrison won the Nobel Prize for literature for her body of work and the Pulitzer Prize for this novel, which was the basis for a film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Oprah Winfrey and.....

First Edition. Reports on the business and activities of the Glasgow Emancipation Society and provides the text of remarks given by various speakers at the annual meeting. The Society aimed to abolish slavery worldwide. 47, [1] pages. Uncommon. Spine perished, else very good in the original string-bound printed wrappers. Pages.....

First British edition. One of 250 signed and numbered copies of the UK edition of this debut fantasy novel that incorporates elements of voodoo and African American folklore. Bound with black-dyed page edges. First UK edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This is no. 25.....

First Edition. The memoirs of the brother of the assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers. xii, 196 pages. First edition (stated first printing). Some spotting to the front board, else very good in a very good dust jacket with shallow chipping to the top of the spine. Pages tanned, as.....

First British edition. The first British edition (two years after the American) of one of the Library of Congress's 88 Books that Shaped America: "'Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people. The Souls of Black Folk occupies this.....

First Edition. An offprint from the Fortnightly Review, in which the leading Mexican American historian of his time argues that Native Americans and African slaves were treated better in Spanish America than in the United States. His view of the enslaved people is best expressed by quoting his summary of.....

First Edition. A volume collecting Chew comics nos. 1 to 20, with extras at the end. The story follows detective Tony Chu, who gets psychic emanations from all foods except canned beets—it's a hard-boiled satire of foodie culture. The artist, Rob Guillory, a Louisiana native, is one of the too-small.....