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.

Uncorrected Proof. An advance copy of the UK edition of the author's second book which was published as a paperback original. Light shelf wear on the bottom edge, else a fine copy in blue decorated wrappers. An uncommon advance state.

A cabinet card photograph of two young African American women wearing similar solid-color dresses with elaborate headpieces. One woman stands with her arm on a pedestal, the other is seated to her right. The photograph is captioned in a later hand, "Grandmother and Aunt Maggie 1888." The date seems correct.....

First Edition. A combined awareness and fundraising appeal for leftist prisoners across the United States, with brief histories of the cases against Angela Davis, Billy Dean Smith, John Line, Carlos Feliciano, H. Rap Brown, Ruchell Magee, and others. [8] pages. 8-1/4 by 10-3/4 inches. Printed in black and orange. A fine.....

The vintage gelatin silver prints of Jamaican migrant workers in Florida taken by a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. The images show workers preparing to return home with large boxes of items purchased stateside and their personal belongings. One man, named Mervin McWon, carries two boom-box-style radios; another photograph depicts two.....

First Edition. Essays on equality and social change by the great basketball player who has found a second career as a public intellectual. Written with Raymond Obstfeld. 243 pages. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Abdul-Jabbar on the.....

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.....

First Edition. An early draft of a novel—to date never commercially published—circulated to friends of the author. Bennett (who also wrote under several pseudonyms) is an African American Korean War vet who published a number of novels and non-fiction books while living as an expatriate in Mexico. This is a first.....

First Edition. A guide to help officers combat racial discrimination in the army in the waning years of the Viet Nam war. The authors report that the army had few Black officers, that Black soldiers had a hard time obtaining technical positions, and that Black soldiers were twice as likely.....

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......

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.....

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.....