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Frederick Douglass. [American Crisis Biographies]
With two copies only in OCLC, a very scarce early reprint edition of this biography from the “American Crisis Biographies” —written by one great African... Read More
African American Writers
The Rural Negro.
First Edition in the rare pictorial dust jacket, profusely illustrated from original photographs. Woodson, “Father of Black History,” authors an exhaustive study of social and... Read More
Lonely Crusade.
Chester Himes began writing in prison after being convicted of armed robbery at age nineteen. While many of his novels are now considered classics in... Read More
The Ballad of the Brown Girl. An Old Ballad Retold. [Signed by the Author]
Dedicated to the poet Witter Bynner and with decorations and a double-plate illustration. by Charles Cullen. DANB: “While in college Cullen also greatly sharpened his... Read More
Black Labor Chant and Other Poems.
Extraordinary volume of posthumously published poetry by an African-American educator. Illustrated poems on themes of racial discrimination, segregation, and violence are prominently featured. Half the... Read More
American Daughter.
Autobiography from this Iowa native writing of her early life in North Dakota, her college degree achievement, and then her removal to Chicago during the... Read More
I Am the American Negro.
First Edition of this second of three collections of poetry written by Davis: “Frank Marshall Davis (1905–1987) rose to prominence as a poet and journalist... Read More
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, written by himself. His early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history to the present time…
1882 edition of the final autobiographical memoir of Frederick Douglass, first published in 1881 by the same publisher. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass “did... Read More
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
The third autobiography authored by Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American 19th century American author, orator, and reformer. This edition noted for its ten-page Introduction... Read More
The Mind and Heart of Frederick Douglass: Excerpts from Speeches of the Great Negro Orator.
With a colorful dust jacket design by James Barkley, selections from the speeches, writings, and texts of Frederick Douglass, the eminent African American orator, author... Read More
My Bondage and My Freedom.
A facsimile edition from the “Ebony Classics” of the second of three autobiographies, My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass with a four-page Foreword... Read More
Narrative of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
The first autobiography of three written by Frederick Douglass, the preeminent black American author, orator, reformer and statesman of nineteenth century America. With a seventeen-page... Read More
Narrative of the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
The first autobiography of three written by Frederick Douglass, the preeminent black American author, orator, reformer and statesman of nineteenth century America. With an eighteen-page... Read More
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, written by himself.
[Title continues:] Published for the Frederick Douglass Historical and Cultural League, in preparation for the One Hundredth Anniversary of Douglass’ first Public Appearance in the... Read More
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The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. [Complete Four Volumes With Supplementary Volume]
The extensive writings of Frederick Douglass with pithy and explanatory footnotes and a full-length biography of Frederick Douglass by the editor, Philip S. Foner. Foner... Read More
The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. [Three Volumes (of Four)]
First three (of four and a later supplement) volumes of the extensive writings of Frederick Douglass with pithy and explanatory footnotes and a full-length biography... Read More
The Trend of the Races. [Review Copy with Ephemera]
Accompanying this book is a small 3pp., leaflet, in part, describing the work, thus: “A thoughtful attempt to show the relations between the white and... Read More
My Life in the South. [Inscribed and Signed by the Author]
Stroyer was a former slave born on a South Carolina plantation. Emancipated, he eventually became a minister in Massachusetts. Brignano: “An African Methodist Episcopal minister... Read More
Pioneers of Long Ago. [Lois Mailou Jones, Illustrator]
With compelling illustrations by Lois Mailou Jones, an American history book for African American youth, written by two African American women from Washington, D.C. Each... Read More
Hurry Home.
The author’s second work of fiction, a psychological novel of blackness set in a 1960s New York City ghetto. The protagonist, Cecil, embodies the tensions... Read More
Slave Insurrections in the United States 1800-1865
Comprehensive survey by this African American author of the most important slave rebellions in America, ante-bellum, up until and during the American Civil War. The... Read More
Roosevelt and The Negro.
Kelly Miller, on the faculty of Howard University, wrote numerous monographs on issues of race and black America. He was also the author of The... Read More
History of the Helping Hand Club of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church.
History of this women’s charity founded in 1907, an outgrowth from the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. A brief biography of its founder, Mary Emma Cabaniss... Read More
Otis Dunn Manhunter.
Otis Dunn, a black man, is an ex-F.B.I. Agent turned bounty hunter. Manhunter is sold as a “suspenseful story set against the interplay of Southern... Read More
New World A-Coming. Inside Black America.
Life in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s with efforts to investigate numerous questions such as: “What is the Negro’s attitude toward his white employer... Read More