Hardcover in dust jacket. 233 pages. Clean and free of damages. No writing in book. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page, in purple ink. View More...
New, unopened 2-CD set. Still sealed in original shrinkwrap, with no flaws or defects. Disc 1 features 20 songs in English; Disc 2 has 20 songs in French recorded between 1930 and 1939. La Baker at her finest! View More...
Like new with no marks or flaws. Covers have a trace of rubbing. No damage or defects. 368 pages. From the publisher's website, "...these autobiographical narratives offer keen insight into four vastly different lives. Nancy Prince, born free in Massachusetts in 1799, tells of her exotic travels to Europe, Russia, and Jamaica. Susie King Taylor, who gained freedom by escaping behind Union lines with her family in 1862, records her experiences as a teacher, laundress, and nurse with the Union army, and her later experiences during the Reconstruction. Bethany Veney recounts her years in slavery... View More...
Hardcover in dust jacket. Inscribed by artist Carroll Harris Simms on free front end-paper. No other marks or writing in book. Dust jacket shows some wear and tear, mostly to edges and a bit of rubbing.
A ground-breaking survey of African-American art in Houston. View More...
Down South music sheet for selection entitled "Cotton Pickers," published by the Willis Music Co. of Cincinnati. The copyright is actually 1928. There is some writing inside - notes handwritten as to how to play with each hand, etc. Light wear to corners and edges. Cover remains clean and presentable. Note the caricature juvenile figures on each side of the big cotton boll. Considerable vintage black americana. View More...
Blanche Elburt Moncure, Williamsburg, VA. 1937 softcover cooking booklet bound in pale turquoise wrappers with shallow yapped edges. 87 pages. Portrait photo of Emma Jane. No marks or writing to book. The binding is fair. Edges worn. Surfaces are rubbed, lightly soiled and worn (with some abrasions and scars.) Light soil here and there to covers. Hinges and edges have been re-inforced in the interior with archival mending tissue. A scarce cookery collectible. View More...
Hardcover in dust jacket. First Printing. 286 pages, illustrated. No marks or writing to book. Condition: Like new. The focus of this book is on the black people, both enslaved and free) who played prominent roles in the life of the estate under George Washington's descendants and in the employ of the Mt. Vernon Ladies Association who acquired the estate in 1858. Contents: Introduction: Forever old, forever new; - Oliver Smith's memories; - Hannah Parker's kin; - West Ford's triple life; - Andrew Ford's America; - The Johnsons' neighborhood; - Nathan Johnson's enterprise; -Sarah Johnson's pape... View More...
1979 softcover; 177 selections and variations of hymns, psalms and antiphons. Prior owner's name to upper corner of first page. Otherwise no writing to book. Lower edge starting to curl slightly. A good reading copy.. View More...
Hardcover in red pictorial cloth binding. Ex-school library copy, with considerable evidence of wear: some pages are smudged and wrinkled. Corners are worn and starting to fray. Couple of pages have edge tears. The book is an artifact of its times, racial stereotypes and all. View More...
Clean, unread softcover. Has a trace of shelfwear / rubbing along fore-edge of front cover. No marks to book. Series: Suny Series in Afro-American Studies. Paperback: 340 pages. View More...
Hardcover in dust jacket. Jacket is sunned on spine , with a stain to jacket at spine. Dampstain to bottom edge of book. No marks or writing in book. Jacket now protected under a clear mylar Brodart sleeve. View More...
Hardcover in dust jacket. Spine panel is sunned and there is a two-inch long closed tear to bottom edge running along gutter. No marks or writing in book. Stated First Edition. Illustrated. Photographs include Alvin Ailey, Cicely Tyson, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands and Roscoe Lee Browne. View More...
