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1) The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present
Anthology

Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1967. Trade paperback. GOOD+. Tight, bright, age soiled, slight curl. Minor cover creases and edgewear. Owner's name. 47 authors & Stories. Author's include: Langston Hughes, Dorothy West, Ralph Ellison, Frank Yerby, James Baldwin & Alice Walker, (more information)

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$4.01
2) River, Cross My Heart
Clark, Breena

Thorndike, ME: Thorndike Press, 2000. Large Print. Hardbound. VERY GOOD-. Ex-library with expected markings. Tight, bright, clean, slight tilt. Death of a 6-year old in the 1925, black, Georgetown community (Washington, DC). (more information)

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3) With My Mind on Freedom:An Autobiography
Davis, Angela 

NY: Bantam (#Y6484), 1975. (1st Paperback). Paperback. GOOD. "Leader of the Black Revolution..Communist…Feminist.. Once the FBI's Most Wanted Criminal". Light soiling. 1/2" tear on front cover edge. Ink stain on bottom corner. Owners name of rear of front cover. Bookstore stamp and damp stain on 1st page. Square, tight and bright. Sixties. (more information)

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4) Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral
Fauset, Jessie Redmon

Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1990. (4th printing). Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, bright, clean & square. Small corner bump, slight age soil and foxing of edges. Some sticker remnants. "Black Woman Writers" Series. Originally published in 1929. "keen-eyed appraisal of cultural, racial and sexual politics in 1920s New York extends and complicates our understanding of the Harlem Renaissance" ISBN: 0807009091. (more information)

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5) The Signifying Monkey: A theory of African-American Literary Criticism
Gates, Henry Louis Jr

The Signifying Monkey: A theory of African-American Literary Criticism
NY: Oxford, 1988. (7th printing). Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean, slight skew. Faint age soil to top exterior edges. Tiny corner bump. "Explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature." winner of the 1989 American Book Award ISBN: 019506075X. (more information)

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6) The Death of Rhythm & Blues
George, Nelson

NY: Penguin/Plume, 1988. (2nd printing). Trade Paperback. FINE. "the first full scale history of modern black music from the best black writer writing about black music in America'". Tight, bright, clean & square. As new except for slight curl to top corner of front cover. ISBN: 0452266971. (more information)

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7) Nigger
Gregory, Dick 

NY: Pocket Books, 1971. (later printing). Paperback. NEAR FINE. "A moving story of a man who deeply wants a world without malice and hate and is doing something about it." Slight edgewear. Name written on top on 1st page. Otherwise tight, bright, clean and square. (more information)

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8) Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn
Pomerantz, Gary M

NY: Scribner/Lisa Drew, 1996. (1st edition). Hardbound. VERY GOOD+/Near Fine. Ex library w/stamps, plastic cover and catalog # sticker on spine. Tight, bright, clean and square. 5 generations of the families of Mayors Ivan Allen & Maynard Jackson of Atlanta mirror the cities history.(Dobbs & Allen genealogies) ISBN: 684807173. (more information)

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9) Fires in the Mirror
Smith, Anna Deavere.  

Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1993. (13th printing). Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD. "Stunning exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights (Brooklyn, NY) riots of 1991. (more information)

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10) One Year Later: An Assessment of the Nation's Response to the Crisis Described by the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
Urban America Inc

Washington, DC: The Urban Coalition, 1969. (1st thus). Paperback. NEAR FINE. Tight, bright, clean & square. Small chip near top of spine. Urban Coalition mailing piece following up Kerner Commission Report. (more information)

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