First Edition. Later retitled, "the story of a white Negro." Filmed in 1972. 312 pages. HH-151; 95 cents on cover. First printing (stated). A very good copy in wrappers (mass market paperback). Spine creased; some creasing to covers (paperback).

First Edition. The followup to James's Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings. This is the first volume of a planned series of fantasy novels rooted in African mythology. This is one of an unspecified number of copies issued by the publisher signed by the author on a tipped-in.....

An order from the Union Army in charge of New Orleans implementing new rules for enslaved people held in the jail. At the time of the Union occupation of New Orleans, slaves could be imprisoned for committing crimes, but their enslavers could also hire them out to the municipal work.....

First Edition. The complete three-volume set of the great tennis player's sports history encyclopedia. Prepared with the assistance of Kip Branch, Ocania Chalk, and Francis Harris. 194, 497, and 571 pages. Extensively illustrated in black and white. 7-1/4 by 9-1/2 inches. First editions of all three volumes (each with a......

First Edition. The Florida legislature confronts the 14th amendmet to the Constitution, granting formerly enslaved people citizenship, due process rights, and equal protection. The governor, David S. Walker, recommended that the legislature reject it, which it promptly did (like most Southern states, Florida finally capitulated in 1868 and adopted the.....

First Edition. A collection of poems in English, with facing page translations by Manuel García Verdecia. 259 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Walker on the title page.

First Edition. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on a laid in bookplate. With an information card from the Parnassus Books Signed First Editions Club laid in. A flyer printing a note from the.....

First Edition. A novel by a writer born in Ghana and raised in Alabama. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, with a bit of shelf wear. Signed by Gyasi on the title page.

A printed fundraising brochure to help bail Joan Bird out of Rikers Island jail, where she had been held for more than a year as part of the Panther 21. Bird and twenty other members of the Black Panthers were arrested in 1969 for allegedly planning to attack police stations.....

The second African American photobook according to Carla Williams in her essay, The Black Photographers Annual in Aperture 223 (the first was Roy DeCarava's Sweet Flypaper of Life, in 1955). The author is a poet, photographer, filmmaker (The Black Indians of New Orleans documentary), and a professor at the University.....

A rare original cabinet card of the most well-known portrait of the anarchist and radical labor organizer Lucy Parsons, taken by German immigrant photographer Louis Gogler. Gogler operated a large studio in the Bowery neighborhood in New York City but Parsons obtained the copyright for the image and thus the.....

First Thus. 233 pages. First paperback edition (numberline ending in 1). Originally published in hardcover in 1988. Inscribed by Reed, "For Bryce, good wishes, Ishmael Reed."

Second Edition. The second (separate) edition of this important early report on a pilot project that helped determine federal policies to govern and assist the enslaved people who were freed during the Civil War. The Union army occupied the Port Royal area (a network of islands just north of the.....