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New York:: Oxford University Press,, (2018). Hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 2nd printing. A highly praised biography of this important Black artist. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. commented "Through her long association with Romare Bearden and his work, Mary Schmidt Campbell possesses a rare understanding of his life and artistry. In this beautifully written volume, she sensitively… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, (1967). Hardcover -. Fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped).. 4th printing. Biography of this pioneering African American doctor and scientist written for older children and young adults. Drew "improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. This allowed medics to… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: Harper & Row,, (1990). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to the pages, tear to dj at fold of rear flap). First printing. An abridged version of his award winning, rather massive book "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863 - 1877," the first modern comprehensive account of this controversial… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,, (2005.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Autobiography of this noted historian, whose work "From Slavery to Freedom" remained the classic text for over 60 years. Born in 1915, he was "confined to segregated schools, threatened and consistently subjected to racismÕs denigration of… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York & Boston:: Little Brown,, (2016). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. In 1899, on a sweltering tobacco farm in Truevine, Virginia, the heart of the Jim Crow South, the Muse brothers, George and Willie, just 6 and 9 years old, worked the fields - until a white… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: Crown,, (2012). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Pulitzer Prize winning biography of General Alexandre Dumas, the father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas. In discussing this book, Reiss comments that "Napoleon buried the memory of this great man, the son of a black slave who led more than 50,000 men… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (1973). Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. 1st trade paperback printing. An account of a racist incident in Jim Crow Texas. In 1906 the 25th Infantry Regiment, known as Buffalo Soldiers, were stationed at Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas. On the night of August 13 shots broke out in the town,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Valley Forge, PA: : Judson Press,, (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A later book by this Baptist minister, civil rights leader and social activist focusing on the creation of job training opportunities for African Americans (founder of the Opportunities Industrialization Centers - OIC), and as an… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chicago:: Noble Press,, (1993.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Author's first book - the story of her 4 years at the Washington Post's new Sunday magazine, where she was both the first African American writer and the first woman writer - and also a look back at her childhood,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: Putnam,, 1874.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in original green cloth with gold lettering. (top edge slightly bumped, a bit of wear to head of spine and usual light toning to pages, but a tight, clean and very attractive copy) . First edition. Written by "two of its teachers." Includes "Fifty Cabin and Plantation… Saber más sobre este artículo

Chapel Hill:: University of North Carolina Press, , (1993). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First printing. Although the American settlement house movement was influential in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities, when African Americans began migrating from the rural South to cities in the North "most houses failed… Saber más sobre este artículo

Englewood Cliffs, NJ:: Silver Burdett Press,, (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. Uncommon in hardcover. . First printing. Five stories about African Americans in the old West, written for older children and young adults. Included in this book are accounts of York, who accompanied Lewis and Clark; fur trapper Ed Rose, Alvin Coffey,… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: Macmillan,, 1946.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in navy blue cloth with silver lettering in a good only dustjacket with a few small chips, some sunning and wear to the spine, rubbing to the folds, original price of 1.75 on dj flap. . First printing. In addition to discussion of the issues of… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: Pantheon,, (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of speeches, essays and reviews on topics ranging from the US constitution to jazz and American and African American literature. Index. xvii, 267 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, (1972). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (bookplate on front pastedown, some toning to spine of dj). First printing. An authoritative biography, well written and thoroughly researched of one the earliest African American men of science in the United States. A free Black tobacco planter in… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: W. W. Norton & Company,, (1999). Near fine in illustrated wrappers.. 1st trade paperback printing. A wide-ranging general history of African Americans in the land West of the Mississippi, "beginning with Esteban, a black slave who accompanied a party of Spanish explorers in Texas and the Southwest in the 1500s, [and including] the experiences of black… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: Harmony,, (1996). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (initials on dj). First printing. In 1954 four black women met at Talladega College and began a friendship that has lasted more four decades. Although they all lived in different parts of the country, they formed a 'working circle' friendship and wrote… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: Dodd, Mead,, (1965.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine blue cloth in a good dust jacket. (some creasing, two short closed tears to upper edge of dj, minor rubbing on the folds, original price of 3.25 still present.) Printed many times over the years, the first edition is quite uncommon, and especially so in this… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York:: Harper Collins,, (2006). Hardcover first edition -. Good in a very near fine dustjacket (a straight tight copy, but with some underlining and marginal brackets affecting about 25 pages -uncommon in the first edition) . First printing. A book which looks at the history of the Civil Rights movement and after by this National… Saber más sobre este artículo

Freeport, NY: : Books for Libaries Press,, 1971.. Hardcover -. Ex-library but with relatively few markings and overall tight, clean and sturdy in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. . Facsimile edition. A work by this pioneering Black education and activist, originally published in 1896. Includes a brief biographical sketch by Edward L. Parks, and… Saber más sobre este artículo