The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis - 1889

1963. 3rd Edition. Paperback. Fine. excellent condition

Gary, Indiana: The Class of 1925. Oblong. Later called the Emersonian, it is incorrectly reported in most sources that 1925 was the last year when Emerson High School remained an all-white school. As this yearbook shows, however, there was one black student, Frances Anderson (p. 46), who came in 1922 from Matton, Illinois. The editors of the yearbook report they are glad she had moved to Gary, and noted her skill in elocution including the Lake County Declamation Contest, as well as her membership in the Chemistry, French, and Classical Clubs. Interestingly, the yearbook notes she was at the contest but the page devoted to the Declamation Club notes thirty-two names though not hers yet she was noted as an outstanding elocutionist. She also is not found in the pictures of the three clubs to which she belonged. This suggests at the minimum that she was excluded either by a powerful clique or perhaps by the faculty themselves.. The next year there was an attempt to bring six more black students into the… Read More

The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. Light bumping on the top edge on the spine of the dust jacket. Very light bumping on the Top and bottom corners (on the inside flap) on the back cover of the dust jacket. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Oakland, CA: Change!, ca. 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 16pp (stapled self-cover). An exceptionally well-preserved copy of a Civil Rights themed publication from late 1967 (or early 1968), published in association with the Unitarian Universalist Project East Bay in Oakland and Emeryville. Includes a short piece urging readers to "Support the Huey P. Newton Defense Fund" as well as writing by adults and children intended to inform a suburban audience about conditions in the inner city.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 184pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Revealing and disturbing study of the racist ideas and fantasies of southern whites after the Civil War.

The University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. Light bumping on the top edge on the spine of the dust jacket. Very light bumping on the Top and bottom corners (on the inside flap) on the back cover of the dust jacket. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Oakland, CA: Change!, ca. 1967. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 16pp (stapled self-cover). An exceptionally well-preserved copy of a Civil Rights themed publication from late 1967 (or early 1968), published in association with the Unitarian Universalist Project East Bay in Oakland and Emeryville. Includes a short piece urging readers to "Support the Huey P. Newton Defense Fund" as well as writing by adults and children intended to inform a suburban audience about conditions in the inner city.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth in DJ; 184pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Revealing and disturbing study of the racist ideas and fantasies of southern whites after the Civil War.

Santa Cruz, CA: Hambone, 2009. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, [viii]+280pp, printed wrappers. Scarce nineteenth issue of this cultural magazine edited by Nathaniel Mackey. Includes "Black Man in the Cosmos," an annotated 17-page transcription of a spring 1971 lecture by Sun Ra. Unmarked copy (from the collection of contributor Leslie Scalapino), just about as new.

Braamfontein, South Africa: Ravan Press, 1982. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 48pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce 1982 issue of this important multiracial South African literary magazine. Includes work by a vast number of writers. Unmarked copy, clean with minor creasing.