First Edition. The second of four volumes seeking to define "a new Blackness, real and strong as our history, pushing consciousness toward a new place" through photography (quoted from the first volume in the series). At the time Joe Crawford started this series, African American photographers had been almost completely.....

First Edition. Langston’s autobiography is a sweeping personal and political memoir that traces his singular life through one of the most turbulent chapters of American history. His guiding philosophy appears on the title page: “Self-reliance the secret of success”—a distillation of Langston’s deeply held belief in perseverance, education, and personal.....

Original 1968 flyer describing what happened to Eldridge Cleaver in the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King. Originally published in Ramparts magazine in May 1968 and reprinted by the Eldridge Cleaver Fund, this double-sided broadside captures a pivotal moment in civil rights history. The first piece, "Requiem for.....

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.....

Second Printing. An account of African American life on Lang Syne, one of the largest plantations in South Carolina, written by the novelist Julia Peterkin and photographed by New York heiress Doris Ullman. "Ullman's soft-focus photos—rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here—straddle Pictorialism and Modernism.....

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.....

Third printing. A biography of Frederick Douglass by the longtime leader of the Tuskegee Institute (now University). Washington frames Douglass as an inspiring figure from the past, part of an era of "destruction and liberation" focused on slavery and its immediate aftermath. Washington implies that the more difficult task of.....

In this widely reproduced Lange image, a bulky white man appears to hold court while standing with one foot on the bumper of a car; five thin black men sit and stand behind him on the steps of a clapboard store. In the years immediately after she made the negative.....

First Edition. A travelog and critique of Franco's Spain by the author of Native Son. Translated into French by R. Giroux. Wright (1902–1960), one of the most important writers of the 20th century, chronicled African American life in novels and essays, but grew disillusioned with racism in the United States.....