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New York: November 25, 1955. Peter Abrahams (1919- ), is a South African novelist who was deeply influenced by his discovery of the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. His early novel "Mine Boy" (1946) was the first to emphasize the dehumanizing effect of racism upon South African blacks... Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Peter Abrahams Add to Wish List
Item #56155
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New York: Mcdowell, Obolensky, [1959]. First American edition, first issue binding and dust jacket. A sharp copy of the first American edition of Achebe's first novel, now acclaimed as a masterpiece of postcolonial literature. Read More Item Details for Things Fall Apart Add to Wish List
Item #372123
Price: $150
Columbia, S.C: The State Company, 1929. First edition, #232 of 250 numbered copies, signed by E. C. L. Adams. A play, written by a white physician in "black dialect," set in South Carolina. Read More Item Details for Potee's Gal. A Drama of Negro Life Near the Big Congaree Swamps by E. C. L. Adams Add to Wish List
Item #333517
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New York: Random House, 1975. First edition. Inscribed on the front endpaper in red pen, "To George from Muhammad Ali 77" Read More Item Details for The Greatest. My Own Story Add to Wish List
Item #377941
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New York: Leeds Music Corporation, [copyrigh 1941]. Read More Item Details for 5 Boogie Woogie Piano Solos Add to Wish List
Item #31755
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Rand McNally, (1929). Signed on the first blank by the creators. Read More Item Details for All about Amos ’n’ Andy and Their Creators Correll and Gosden Add to Wish List
Item #63390
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New York: Random House, 1974. First edition. From the collection of the publishing couple Selma Shapiro and Jim Silberman, who met working at Random House during this period, where he was an editor and she was vice president of publicity. Read More Item Details for Gather Together in My Name Add to Wish List
Item #367815
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New York: Dial Press, 1963. First edition. Signed by Baldwin on the front flyleaf. The Fire Next Time contains only two essays — "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind..... Read More Item Details for The Fire Next Time Add to Wish List
Item #373290
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Boston: The Beacon Press, 1955. First edition. This first collection of Baldwin's non-fiction essays centers on issues of race and identity in both the United States and Europe, where he had emigrated in 1948. The ten texts were previously printed in periodicals such as Harper's Magazine and Partisan Review, and..... Read More Item Details for Notes of a Native Son Add to Wish List
Item #375840
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New York: The Literary Guild, 1931. First Edition. “The legend of a character born of the imagination of Southern Negro workers. He was six feet, strong and robust and capable of doing humans feats.” Treasure Trove p. 9. INSCRIBED on the flyleaf to legendary film producer and director, Joseph Mankiewicz..... Read More Item Details for John Henry Add to Wish List
Item #13060
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New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1934. Stated first edition. A collection of short stories about the "careless, happy, colored people of the South..." Bradford's novels depicting African American life in the south was well-recieved in the 1930s and continued in popularity until his death in 1948. Since then..... Read More Item Details for Let the Band Play Dixie Add to Wish List
Item #365481
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. INSCRIBED: “For L. R Jefferson, may the bonds and shares sell as well as I hope this book does. Roark Bradford, February 15, 1929.”. Read More Item Details for This Side of Jordan Add to Wish List
Item #13057
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1929. First Edition. Signed “Roark Bradford / New Orleans 1940” on the flyleaf. Read More Item Details for This Side of Jordan Add to Wish List
Item #13061
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Boston: B.J. Brimmer Company, 1923. First edition, #153 of 245 numbered copies & signed by the anthologist and African-American poet W.S. Braithwaite. Read More Item Details for Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1923 and Yearbook of American Poetry Add to Wish List
Item #262170
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Boston: Printed by Fred Anthoensen of The Southworth Press for Bruce Humphries, 1931. One of 50 on Kelmscott handmade paper, signed by CRAM, BLUNT & BRAITHWAITE. Braithwaite, a black pioneer in literary criticism, was a reviewer for the Boston Transcript and editor of the annual Anthology of Magazine Verse, as..... Read More Item Details for Our Lady's Choir. A Contemporary Anthology of Verse by Catholic Sisters. Edited by William Stanley Braithwaite. Foreword by Rev. Hugh Francis Blunt. Introduction by Ralph Adams Cram Add to Wish List
Item #370897
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London: Oxford University Press, 1969. Inscribed: "Venceremos / Edward Brathwaite / 1973" to Roberto Márquez, the co-founder of Caliban, the journal of postcolonial art and literature featuring voices primarily from Latin America and the Caribbean. Caliban was ostensibly named after the 1974 essay "Caliban" by Roberto Fernández Retamar, the Cuban..... Read More Item Details for Islands Add to Wish List
Item #372792
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New York: Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, 1962. Read More Item Details for Elegy (Plain Black Boy). Sheet music by Oscar Brown, Jr. and poem by Gwendolyn Brooks Add to Wish List
Item #346079
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Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1959. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Trumball Park Add to Wish List
Item #19328
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Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 146 Central Park West; Langston Hughes, February 29th 1936. This is a later reproduction. Read More Item Details for Langston Hughes portrait Add to Wish List
Item #345329
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New York: Macmillan, 1935. First edition. Read More Item Details for Don't You Weep ... Don't You Moan Add to Wish List
Item #31411
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New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1931. First edition. Read More Item Details for Here they are -- Amos ’n’ Andy Add to Wish List
Item #31678
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S4N Society, 1923. Includes Hart Crane's America's Plutonic Ecstasies (social cricism and Jean Toomer's poem "Her Lips are Copper Wires" published here in the same year as his famous Novel Cane came out. Read More Item Details for The S4N Issues 26, 27, 28, 29 (Year 4) For May, June, July and August 1923 Add to Wish List
Item #321241
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[New York, Central Park: June 20, 1941]. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Countee Cullen Add to Wish List
Item #224150
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First edition. Read More Item Details for Copper Sun Add to Wish List
Item #214715
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New York: Sheed & Ward, 1952. First Edition. Texas born Day was 26 when she penned this her first book, sick with TB. she had encounterted severe racism growing up. She had become a nusre after studying in NYC. Her converesion to Catholicism is recounted here. Read More Item Details for Color Ebony Add to Wish List
Item #365342