New York: Harmon Foundation Inc., 1935. Octavo (8 x 5 1/8 inches; 205 x 130 mm), 59, [1] pages in stapled illustrated wrappers.  A scarce, profusely illustrated catalogue for an exhibition of works by three Black artists: the painter Malvin Gray Johnson (who had died recently), and..... More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 240 x 158 mm), black cloth, titles in gilt to spine, in an unclipped dust jacket (hard cover).  An analysis of Black writing in America, from about the 1850s..... More

New York: Harlem Communist Election Campaign for the Re-election of Benjamin J. Davis, [1949]. Single page folded once to create a [4]-page brochure measuring 11 x 8 1/2 inches (280 x 215 mm) when folded. Illustrated brochure featuring an autobiographical statement by Benjamin J. Davis, a Black Communist..... More

New York: No publisher listed. [DuBois Memorial Committee], 1964. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 217 mm), 15, [1] pages, in stapled self-wrappers (soft cover). Scarce souvenir program presented to attendees of a memorial service for W.E.B. DuBois at Carnegie Hall in New York. The program..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo (8 1/2 x 6 inches; 215 x 150 mm), 124 pages, in orange and black boards, titles to spine in black and to upper board in pink, top edge stained red. A collection of more than 60 poems, accompanied..... More

New York: Totem Press / Corinth Books, 1970. Sixth Printing. INSCRIBED on the title page by the author as Amiri Baraka with "LJ" in parenthesis. The African-American poet's first book, originally published in 1961, featuring poems written between 1957 and 1961. Striking cover illustration by Basil King.8vo (8 1/16 x...... More

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First Edition, 2nd Printing. An important reference on African-American literature. Octavo, 594 pages. Very Good, with small scrapes to both paste downs and the first few pages (not affecting any text) in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and soiling. More

New York: Viking / Penguin Group, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 inches; 241 x 158 mm), xxiv, 690, [4] pages, hard cover, titles to spine. SIGNED on the title page by Terry McMillan, Amiri Baraka, Samuel R. Delany, John Wideman, and..... More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/8 inches; 240 x 155 mm), 229 pages, black boards, title to spine, in a printed dust jacket. SIGNED by Toni Morrison on the half title. The first U.K edition of Toni..... More

Boston: Printed by S.N. Dickinson & Co., 1847. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 183 x 119 mm), 12 pages, in original printed wrappers. A full-throated cry against slavery. The Quakers, who had long opposed slavery, wonder how a supposedly Christian nation could allow such evil to..... More

Richmond, Virginia: Outlook Publishers, Inc., 1957. 12mo (7 x 5 1/4 inches; 179 x 135 mm), 30 pages, in stapled wrappers (soft cover). An offprint from The Presbyterian Outlook decrying racial segregation in the church. The author was a former Army chaplain and faculty member at Union Theological..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. The story of a black preacher in 18th-century Philadelphia who searches for a mysterious African woman. 8vo., 212 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Beautiful copy. More

Washington, D.C. National Geographic Directions, 2003. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm), xxx, 167 pages, black and green boards, in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page. A travel memoir by the acclaimed author. Signed..... More