First Edition. A poem inspired by Nina Simone refashioned as a children's book illustrated by Chris Raschka. "Sing my song make the sky sing a Black song..." First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the acclaimed poet.....
Price: $20
Second Printing. Poems by the noted photographer and film-maker, illustrated with color reproductions of his photographs. With a preface by Stephen Spender and an introduction by Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. Second printing (stated). A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Some foxing on the half-title page;.....
Price: $20
First Edition. A young adult novel about five generations of an African American family. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a price-clipped, else fine, dust jacket. This copy is inscribed on the title page, "To Scott, Best wishes + Peace! Walter Dean.....
Price: $15
![March on Washington Funds Solicitation]. Martha Elwell](/pictures/thumb/306800.jpg?v=1598906105)
A letter to members of the Highland Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon, soliciting funds to send a delegation to the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. Elwell, the chair of the church committee, needed to raise $3500 to charter a......
Price: $200
Original black-and-white gelatin-silver press photograph, January 31, 1968. 10-1/4 by 8 inches (oblong). A dramatic image of a white woman throwing an uppercut at a young white man protesting for the integration of an elementary school. The clipping attached to the photo on the back (verso) reads, "Two men carrying signs.....
Price: $75
Original black-and-white gelatin-silver press photograph, October 31, 1944. 7 by 9 inches. Captioned on the back on a mounted label: "A worker at the Scullin Steel Co. in St. Louis moves a completed 6-ton 'earthquake bomb' forward on its platform to a freight car." These bombs were manufactured for the British.....
Price: $100
First Edition. [7] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A two-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. Both poems are critical of the Soviet Union. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in wrappers (pamphlet). Staples beginning to rust. A bit of wear to the corners.....
Price: $10
First Edition. [7] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A single-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. A poem about an anti-imperialist delegation to North Korea and China. Designed by George Mattingly. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Price: $20
First Edition. [12] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A three-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. The title poem is about China. A near fine copy in wrappers (pamphlet). Staples a bit rusted.
Price: $20
First Edition. [12] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A single-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. Here he is critical of Idi Amin. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (pamphlet). Staples a touch rusted, very minor spotting to covers.
Price: $15
First Edition. [8] pages. 4-1/2 by 6 inches. A two-poem chapbook by one of the founders of the Black Panthers. One addresses toxic waste in black neighborhoods and the other describes moral failings of African American preachers. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Staples beginning.....
Price: $25
First Edition. [32] pages. A short story, illustrated here by Catherine Deeter, and published as a children's picture book. The story follows a Mr. Sweet, who always is always on the verge of dying, only to be revived by a little girl. At the end of the story, the girl.....
Price: $125
First Edition. 293 pages. First edition (first printing). Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small spot of varnish missing from the front panel. Signed by Hansen.
Price: $15
![First African-American Outfield: Monte Irvin, Willie Mays, and Hank Thompson]. Osvaldo Salas](/pictures/thumb/8970.jpg?v=1597798831)
Black-and-white photograph. Image 18 by 14 inches on 16-by-20-inch paper. This photograph was taken on October 4, 1951, during Game 1 of the World Series at Yankee Stadium between the New York Yankees and the New York Giants. The Giants started three black players in the outfield: Monte Irvin in.....
Price: $250
First Edition. 280 pages. Cullen's only novel, a social comedy of African American life in New York City. One of the classic Harlem Renaissance novels. First edition (stated). Light wear to paper labels on spine and front cover; front hinge a bit sprung, otherwise generally very good. A decent copy.....
Price: $125
First Edition. 231 pages. An anthology of anti-slavery sentiment from a wide variety of politicians and other public figures, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, and Lydia Maria Child. There are chapters on "Authentic anecdotes of United States slavery" and "The African character." Illustrated.....
Price: $750
First Edition. 31 pages. A Southerner argues that a revived foreign slave trade was crucial to the Southern economy. Spratt believed that importing new slaves from Africa would reduce the price of slaves in the United States, lower labor costs, and bring slaves within the economic reach of the average.....
Price: $450
49, [23], [1] pages. Offers background, policies, procedures, forms, talking points, and position papers for the NAACP in California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska. Dating based on 1959–60 California legislature list bound in. Uncommon. Minor staining to covers, else very good in brad-bound wrappers.
Price: $300
![Bond and Free; A True Tale of Slave Times [first edition, first issue]. Jas. H. W. Howard, James](/pictures/thumb/3029.jpg?v=1602359425)
First edition, first issue. 280 pages. A novel of two slaves who escape bondage for Canada. Howard was one of the few African American writers born before the Civil War to publish a novel. While relatively little is known about him, other than that he published Howard's Negro American Magazine.....
Price: $400
Three vintage gelatin silver prints, two 8 by 10s and one 8-1/2 by 11 photographs. The images show Jamaican migrant workers in Florida preparing to return home with large boxes of goods—items purchased stateside and their personal belongings. One man, named Mervin McWon, carries two boom-box-style radios; another photograph depicts.....
Price: $500
Single sheet of newsprint folded to make four 11-1/2 by 16-1/2 pages. The first page prints Cleaver's call for a Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention; the center spread is a message delivered on the 107th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation; and the back page offers Newton's outline of basic principles for.....
Price: $300
