African-Americana from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Award Books, [1969]. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); original pictorial card wrappers; 185,[7](ads)pp; line drawings throughout by Lawrence F. Sykes. Textblock uniformly toned, else Fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1953. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); two-tone yellow and blue cloth, with titles stamped in alternate colors on spine and front panel; dustjacket; [xiv],428pp. Tiny crimp to cloth at crown, faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, else a clean, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95), with light wear to spine… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles and author's facsimile signature stamped in silver, gilt, and orange on spine and front cover; brown topstain; dustjacket; xvi,428,[2]pp. Inscribed by Styron a few weeks after publication on the front endpaper to American artist and social realist painter Gregorio Prestopino (1907-1984): "To… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1966. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); dark brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-415,[1]pp. A few tiny indentations to lower board edges, faint foxing to upper and right edge of textblock, with a few faint spots to endpapers; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, showing… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Camden Press Ltd, 1988. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, a trade paperback original. Octavo (21cm); original glossy pictorial card wrappers; [vi],[3],4-185,[1]pp. Modest external wear, dust-soil to text edges, with some surface staining to upper corner tips; Very Good+. UK edition of Jones's debut novel (published in the U.S. in 1974), edited and championed by Toni Morrison, who was… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Bantam Books, 1973. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). 12mo (18cm). Glossy pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; 150pp. A tight, clean copy, with deep, uniform edge-staining and no reading creases; Near Fine. Quite nice copy of the fourth book in Tidyman's Shaft series. There was no hardcover issue. Astoundingly, only ten physical locations for this… Ler mais sobre este item

London: MacGibbon & Kee Limited, 1968. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, one of 1,500 copies, bound from American sheets. Octavo (22.25cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-252,[4]pp. Subtle tanning to text edges, some trivial external wear; very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 30s net), with light wear to extremities, and some gentle… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Amistad, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); two-tone beige and taupe paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in copper on spine, and publisher's logo in blind on lower front cover; dustjacket; [x],388,[2]pp. Signed by the author on the title page, dated the month following publication (29 October, 2003). Base of spine gently nudged, else very Near Fine… Ler mais sobre este item

[Kingston]: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1981. First Edition. Quarto. Printed card wrappers; 95pp. Mimeographed; printed from typescript. Slight external wear; internally clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good+. Published as ISER Working Paper No. 28.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xviii,170pp. Fine, unread copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; appears new. Essays by the noted British cultural historian, founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at University College London.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (23.5cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in metallic red on spine; dustjacket; xviii,293,[1]pp. A few faint foxed spots to upper edge of textblock, else Fine in a Fine dustjacket. An extensive collection of interviews between the Nobel Prize-winning author and a variety of individuals over the… Ler mais sobre este item

Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 171pp. Tight, unmarked copy, Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $10.00 on front flap); lightly rubbed with a few short tears at extremities, Very Good or better. Collects the texts of ten lectures delivered by Du Bois over a span of… Ler mais sobre este item

Newark, NJ: Newark Tenants Association, N.d. [c. 1973]. Single tabloid issue. 8pp, printed on newsprint; illus. Paper toned at margins; a few chips at corners, still complete and Very Good. Main text in English, with Spanish translation provided for one article and one poem. Short-lived and apparently unrecorded publication from the Newark Rent Strike of 1970-74, also… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Soho, 1996. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo; cloth-backed boards; 224,(4)pp. A fine, apparently unread copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $20.00 on front flap), crisp and unworn, Fine. The Haitian-American author's acclaimed second book, a collection of short stories. National Book Award finalist; the fifth story in the collection, "Between the Pool and… Ler mais sobre este item

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. First Edition. Twelve-panel broadside (ca.7.5 x 34.5") folded into an octavo-sized pamphlet (5.75 x 7.5"). Light wear, a few tiny tears, and some toning to a few folds; Very Good+. The Beat poet's second book, "an autobiographical journey springing out of the blind conjunction of such events as Christ's April crucifixion, death and… Ler mais sobre este item

White Plains: Westchester Committee for a Fair Inquiry into the Peekskill Violence, 1949. First Edition. First Printing, dated October, 1949 on verso of front wrapper. Quarto (27cm); staple-bound, printed wrappers; [24]pp; illus. Light wear to spine-fold and extremities, some toning to borders of the rear wrapper, else clean internally; about Near Fine. Compilation of eyewitness reports, testimonials, and documentary… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Quarto (27.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; 128pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, hint of sunning to spine, some mild surface wear and a few very faint handling creases to wrappers, with the $1.95 price partially blacked-out at upper right corner of front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good+. Superb… Ler mais sobre este item

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. First Edition. Twelve-panel broadside (ca.7.5 x 35") folded into an octavo-sized pamphlet (ca.6 x 7.5"). Some toning and scattered foxing to title panel, modest wear and handling to extremities, with some more subtle toning to folds, with a few small creases; Very Good. The Beat poet's first book, published in a run of… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: One World, 2017. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); black and white paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in metallic red on spine; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; xviii,367,[15]pp. Tiny indentation to crown, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $28.00), with light wear to crown, and some pinpoint wear to extremities. Collection of eight essays first published… Ler mais sobre este item

Watertown [NY]: Ingall's & Stowell's Steam Press, 1852. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (20cm). Publisher's embossed brown cloth gilt; 288pp. Slight external wear, with some roughness to cloth at spine crown; final two pages faintly printed; pronounced foxing to endpapers but text generally tight, fresh, and clean; a Very Good copy. Early ownership signature on title page of "Jos.… Ler mais sobre este item