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Atlanta, Georgia: Student Voice, Inc./ Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, 1964. First editions. Original uncirculated newsletters, 3 issues, volume 5, numbers 1, 6, & 8, January 14, February 17, & March 3, 1964. Quartos (11" x 8.5"), single sheets folded once vertically forming 4 pp. (each), illustrations throughout mostly from photographs.Slightly toned, trace edge wear, couple of unobtrusive horizontal creases (seemingly a production flaw), otherwise near fine. "A final SNCC legacy is the destruction of the psychological shackles which had kept black southerners in physical and mental peonage; SNCC helped break those chains forever. It demonstrated that ordinary women and men, young and old, could perform extraordinary tasks." ~Julian Bond, October, 2000.

New York: Royal Publications, Inc., Volume 6, number 6, January, 1960. 4to (11" x 8.25"), 82 pp. Pictorial, stapled paper wraps. Lightly soiled, modest edge wear including tiny tears & a small loss at the base of the spine, toned, faintly musty, otherwise very good.This issue features a lengthy illustrated profile of Miles Davis by Harry Chillum entitled "The Wind Blows Cool on 57th Street." Additionally features fiction, cartoon humor, men's lifestyle articles, &, of course, pictorials featuring scantily clad young women.

New York: Macmillan, (1998). First edition, this copy inscribed, signed, & dated in ink in 2001 at the ffep to Thomas C. Bordeaux, Jr., then a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, & signed again at the title page. Tall octavo (9.5" x 7.5"), xvii & 334 pages. Publisher's red paper over boards backed in gilt-lettered black cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
A fine copy in like dust jacket.
Includes chapters presenting recipes for wild game, gumbos & stews, fish & shellfish, & more.
"A Taste of Heritage is a landmark book. These glorious recipes prove that African American cooking has surmounted "soul food" to become a world-class cuisine. Chef Joe Randall has made the signature dishes of today's African American repertoire accessible to home cooks who appreciate felicious food ..." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket.

Baltimore, Maryland: Thomas Dobbin, Printer & publisher, number 2647, April 4, 1803. First edition. Original broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 21.25 inches by 26.5 inches folded once vertically forming 4 pages. Text in five columns, printed on laid paper. Brigham, Bibliography of American Newspapers 1690-1820 (1962 edition), vol. I, pp. 249 & 250.
Old folds, moderately toned, foxed, & soiled, lightly tattered, some creasing, small loss in the lower margin not affecting text, a very good copy.
A poignant & horrific newspaper which includes several advertisements for runaway African American slaves, an example of which is provided in full below.
"Twenty Dollars Reward.RAN away from the subscriber, living in Anne Arundel County, near South River, State of Maryland, on the 5th of July instant, a negro girl named KITTY JOYCE; about 20 years of age; of a yellow complexion; straight and well made; has a mole on one side of her nose; and bushy hair. Her clothing when she ran off, was entirely of… Leer más

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1962) First edition, this copy with the armorial bookplate of Cartha D and Barbara De Loach at the ffep. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), 247 pages, illustrated. Publisher's gray cloth lettered & decorated in gilt & white, in pictorial dust jacket
Upper portion of the spine sunned, otherwise Very Good in dust jacket with loss at the top of the spine affecting lettering, light rubbing & modest edge wear, still Good or better
"On April 27, 1865, the Mississippi packet boat Sultana exploded on its way North with over 2,000 paroled prisoners on board" 
~Abstract courtesy OCLC.
Cartha "Deke" DeLoach was deputy associate director of the FBI, the third highest ranking position behind only J Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson In 1963, just after the assassination of John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson requested of Hoover that DeLoach be assigned to the White House As described by New York Times reporter Tim Weiner "DeLoach was always at LBJ's beck and call, night and day, he was a… Leer más

New York: Feiwel & Friends, (2008). First edition, this copy inscribed & signed in ink by Barack Obama at the half title page. Small 8vo (7.75" by 5.25"), xi & 206 pages, with illustrations fron photographs throughout. Publisher's pictorial light card covers.
A fine & apparently unread copy.
"For Maggie,/ Yes we Kan!/ Barack Obama."
Authenticity unconditionally guaranteed
"Garen Thomas takes us through the life of Barack Obama, from his struggle to fit in with his classmates, and concern about not knowing his biological father, through his term as an Illinois senator, and the long campaign for president, to his historic victory." ~Excerpted from the back cover.