African-American Studies
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The Vanguard: A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers
$100.00 Add to cartRuth-Marion Baruch; Pirkle Jones
Boston: Beacon Press, 1970.
Photobook of intimates portraits of members of the Black Panther Party. -
Golden Boy as Anthony Cool: A Photo Essay on Naming and Graffiti
$800.00 Add to cartHerbert Kohl; James Hinton
New York: The Dial Press, 1972.
Important early study of urban text graffiti and tagging in New York. More than just a photobook, though Hinton’s work definitely gives it that distinction, Kohl, founder of the 1960s Open School movement, provides lengthy and invaluable insight into language and identity. -
Blacks in Tom’s Drawings
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First Edition.
27.5cm x 21.5cm. 32 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled self-wrappers.
Short anthology of the homoerotic artwork of Tom of Finland with a focus on African-American subjects. Circa 1988.
Minor shelf wear and tanning. Victorian (Australia) classification sticker to wrappers. Very Good Condition. -
The Harlem Book of the Dead
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First Edition.
26.5cm x 23cm. [x], 85 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Early to mid 20th century African American funeral photography in Harlem, New York City.
Very minor chipping to spine crown. Minor bump to crown fore-edge corner. Some foxing to extremities of first page. Minor tanning. Very Good Condition. -
San Francisco Express Times (Complete Run, 61 Issues 1968-1969 w/ the First 7 Issues of Good Time)
$2,500.00 Add to cartMarvin Garson; Robert Novick
San Francisco: The Trystero Company, 1968-1969.
Complete run of the weekly underground newspaper San Francisco Express Times from Vol. 1 No. 1 January 26, 1968 – Vol. 2 No. 12, March 25, 1969, being all 61 issues before it was renamed Good Times being , here offered with those first seven issues, being Vol. 2 No. 13, [April 1969] – No. 19 May 14, 1969. Good Times continued (on a less regular publishing schedule) until August 2, 1972. Founded by Marvin Garson and Bob Novick the Express Times was a counterculture tabloid covering and promoting radical politics, music, arts, and progressive culture in the Bay Area. It featured extensive coverage of student riots including the prolonged strike at San Francisco State University, and a serialized novel of guerrilla warfare in the United States, Berkeley Guns by Lenny Heller, as well as a weekly cooking column by Alice Waters, illustrated by David Lance Goines. Regular contributors included Todd Gitlin, Greil Marcus, Paul Williams, Sandy Darlington, and Marjorie Heins, alongside staff photographers Jeffrey Blankfort, Nacio Jan Brown, and Robert Altman, and cartoons by Jaxon, Ron Cobb, and Sharon Rudahl. Also featured are writings by or about Richard Brautigan (Note: The final issue credits themselves for publishing 62 issues in total, however this is believed incorrect, there being 61 issues published weekly with a week taken off at the New Year. Comparable holdings found also note the total as 61. Also note Vol. 1 No. 13 misnamed No. 14, April 18, 1967 [1968], sequential numbering then corrected with No. 14 designated as No. 14.5) -
In the Tradition (for Black Arthur Blythe)
$40.00 Add to cartAmiri Baraka
: Amiri Baraka, 1980. -
Crossing the Great River: A Glimpse into the Funeral Rites of Afrikan-Amerikan People
$20.00 Add to cartSkobi Matunde
Philadelphia: Freeland Publications, No date. -
Black Dance
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First Edition.
28cm x 22cm. 192 pages, black and white illustrations.
Foxing to top edge, minor elsewhere. Very Good Condition. -
Black Family Letters From Boston
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First Edition. Signed by Author
21cm x 15cm. 50 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Cocked. Light creasing to spine. Previous owner’s signature in ink. Good Condition. -
The Voice of the Delta: Charley Patton And The Mississippi Blues Traditions, Influences and Comparisons: An International Symposium
$300.00 Add to cartRobert Sacre
Liege: Presses Universitaires Liege, 1987.
Charley Patton is widely considered to be the father of the Mississippi Delta Blues tradition, a genre of music that would go on to become world-famous through the work of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Lead Belly, John Lee Hooker and Blind Willie McTell. In 1987, a collection of the best musicians and scholars of Delta Blues commemorated the centenary of Patton’s birth in 1887 by holding a symposium. Collected here are the papers they presented at that symposium, along with photographs and illustrations befitting the richness of their subject. This copy signed and numbered by the editor, Robert Sacre. Errata slip laid in. -
Boyz n the Hood
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Second Printing.
18cm x 11cm. 153 pages, [8] pages of black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
A Novelization by Mike Phillips based on the movie picture written and directed by John Singleton starring Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut and Larry Fishburne. The second Australian printing.
Some rubbing and very minor chipping to wrappers edges. Very Good Condition. -
Frances Benjamin Johnston: The Hampton Album
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Deluxe Edition.
25cm x 35cm. 344 pages, black and white photographs. Full leather, white lettering, pictorial onlay.
“Comprised of 159 extraordinary platinum plates, Frances Benjamin Johnston’s Hampton Album documents life at the Hampton Institute marking a pivotal moment in this historically black university’s history . Frances Benjamin Johnston (American, 1864-1952), one of the first women in America to work as a professional photographer, was commissioned in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, then a thirty year old institution dedicated to the practical and academic education of freed slaves and Native Americans. What became known as the Hampton Album – comprised of 159 platinum plates exhibited in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris – is Johnston’s signature work, and has become a touchstone for contemporary historians and artists. The leather-bound album was discovered serendipitously by Lincoln Kirstein in a Washington, D.C. bookstore during World War II and donated to MoMA in 1965.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Erotique Noire, Black Erotica
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 15cm. xl, 456 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Foxing and tanning. Bookplate of Dr Gary Simes, date annotation. Good Condition. -
Black Men in Interracial Relationships: What’s Love Got to Do With It?
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 15.5cm. ix, 196 pages. Black cloth, brown lettering, illustrated jacket.
Slightly cocked. Minor foxing. Very Good Condition. -
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became A Black Disease
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 16cm. xxi, 246 pages. Quarter red cloth, black papered boards, silver lettering, illustrated jacket.
Very slightly cocked. Very minor shelf and handling wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Language, Society, and Education: A Profile of Black English
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Second Printing.
24cm x 16cm. ix, [1], 326 pages. Red cloth, yellow lettering, no jacket.
From the collection of Dr. Gary Simes, signature to front paste-down.
Moderate wear to board edges. Moderate foxing and very minor soiling to edges. Good Condition. -
The Harlem Book of the Dead
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First Edition.
26.5cm x 23cm. [x], 85 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Early to mid 20th century African American funeral photography in Harlem, New York City.
Moderate shelf wear. Minor creasing to corners. Minor tanning. Good Condition. -
The Harlem Book of the Dead
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First Edition.
26.5cm x 23cm. [x], 85 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Early to mid 20th century African American funeral photography in Harlem, New York City.
Very minor tanning and handling wear. Near Fine Condition. -
Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 15.5cm. xvii, 382 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor shelf and handling wear. Tanning to wrappers lower panel. Very Good Condition. -
B-Boy Blues
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. 283 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
The first book in the B-Boy Blues series. “A seriously sexy, fiercely funny, Black-on-Black love story.”
Minor shelf wear. Foxing to top edge, minor to other edges. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
A Burst of Light
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First Edition.
22.5cm x 14cm. ix, 133 pages. Green papered boards, white lettering, illustrated jacket.
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Harlem Blackbirds: 32 Sepia Stars: Souvenir Programme of Australia’s First All Coloured Revue
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First Edition.
28cm x 21.5cm. [16] pages, sepia illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled self-wrappers.
Programme for the Sydney season at the Palladium Stage Theatre of the Harlem Blackbirds groundbreaking tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1955-1956. The revue, which was produced, written and directed by African-American Larry Steele, featured all African-American musicians, singers, dancers and comedians. 1 copy recorded in OCLC, at the State Library of New South Wales.
Very minor wear and soiling to wrappers. Near Fine Condition. -
Black Men White Men: A Gay Anthology
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 14cm. 238 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor chipping and creasing to wrappers. Very Good Condition. -
Black Stars of Professional Wrestling
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 15cm. 146 pages, black and white illustrations. Comb bound.
Minor staining to rear cover. Near Fine Condition. -
Negroes: What “Liberal” Racists Never Mention
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23cm x 15cm. 14 pages. Saddle stapled self wrapper.
This article first appeared in the March, 1968, issue of American Opinion.
Tanning. Crease to last page. Good Condition. -
I Want a Black Doll
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First Edition.
20cm x 14cm. 320 pages. Cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.
A novel of an American mixed-marriage.
Moderate foxing. Previous owner’s inscription. Jacket clipped, tanned, and soiled. Good Condition. -
Who Needs the Negro?
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 16cm. xvi, 266 pages. Orange cloth, black lettering, no jacket.
First edition of Sidney McLarty Willhelm’s study of African Americans and their sociological and economic place in 1960/1970s America.
Soiling to upper board, top edge, and to top section of preliminaries. Previous owner’s name. Good Condition. -
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
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Reprint.
20cm x 14cm. 256 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor staining to wrappers at spine crown. Minor foxing to edges. Good Condition. -
The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends & Folk Tales of Old Charleston
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First Edition. Signed by Author
19cm x 13cm. xv, [ii], 260 pages, [1] black and white illustration. Cloth, no jacket.
Moderate wear and discolouration to cloth. Moderate tanning to pages. Previous owner’s name and address. Good Condition. -
After Dark: Magazine of Entertainment January 1974
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First Edition.
28cm x 21.5cm. 114 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers.
Single issue of American performing arts, entertainment, and under the radar gay magazine, After Dark. Running from 1968 to 1983 After Dark featured stories on theatre, film, dance, performance art, music, and the people who starred in such productions. While not overtly erotic or described as a gay magazine, the magazine was often playfully erotic (usually thanks to staff photographer Kenn Duncan), and the readership largely comprised gay men, especially evident by the advertisements a plenty for gay venues, books, movies, and fashion. In this issue: Special Issue: Black Magic – Soul Train, Duke Ellington, Black Movies and Shades of Gray, Al Green, Raymond St. Jacues, Moving On with the Negro Ensemble Company, The Apollo, and more.
Minor shelf wear, foxing, and tanning. Very Good Condition.