Brown Girl, Brownstones by Marshall, Paule

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931. 1st edition Stated. Near Fine/very good +. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931 1st edition Stated in near fine condition with a very good + dust jacket. Orange cloth with red lettering. The spine is bumped but contents are clean and tight with perhaps some light foxing The dust jacket is not price clipped, has a couple of small closed tears, and quite a bit of fading to the spine. It is in a protective dust jacket.

Kampala, Uganda: Transition Ltd, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Rare 1968 issue of this seminal African magazine, then published in Uganda. The article in this issue by Picho Ali triggered letters in the next issue and a court case that resulted in the jailing of editor Rajat Neogy and the departure of the magazine from Uganda. Issue also includes a full-page caricature of Enoch Powell by Ralph Steadman, a cartoon referencing the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, writing by Chinua Achebe and Peter Enahoro, other interesting content. Unmarked copy, some bumping and wear.

[African Americans] Negroes in the United States. Washington: Government printing Office. 1916. Second edition. Green printed wraps. 31 cm. Illustrated. Maps. Charts. 207 pp. Other title: United States Bureau of the Census. Bulletin 129. Covers chipped and stained. Interior very good.
OCLC shows only two holdings in Texas (Univ. North Texas & Texas Tech Univ.) Scarce today. Originally published in 1915 and reprinted the following year. Prepared in the Division of revisions and results under the general supervision of Dr. Joseph A. Hill, expert special agent. The statistical tables were planned and arranged by ... Charles E. Hall, William Jennifer, and Robert A. Pelham. Much useful information.

A definitive work on the African-American community in Los Angeles from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It. by Hinton Rowan Helper, of North Carolina. Seventeenth Thousand. New York: A B Burdick, 1860. Thorough analysis of opinions on slavery from the North and South, slaveholder and non slaveholder. Opinions of European nations as well. Also good chapter on the comparison between the free and slave states.
Condition: NOT a library book. Impressed covers on brown cloth, original spine piece re-applied during professional restoration. Fresh blended end pages. Please review photos and ask for more if necessary to make your best buying decision!
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Engraved title page with facing engraving signed M.Jackson titled UNCLE SAM'S EMANCIPATION: "O; massa may die; then nobody knows who get me, and nobody to take my part. No, master, I rather be free man"-Page 17. Also regular half-title and title page, 160pp. (plus 16 pages ads. for 1853 New Illustrated Works published by T. Nelson and Sons, London and Edinburgh.) Bound in contemporary marbled boards.
Londres : T. Nelson and Sons, 1853. Page de titre gravée avec gravure en regard signée M.Jackson intitulée UNCLE SAM'S EMANCIPATION "O ; massa peut mourir ; alors personne ne sait qui m'aura, et personne pour prendre ma part. Non, maître, je plutôt être un homme libre" -Page 17. Aussi faux-titre et page de titre réguliers, 160pp. (plus 16 pages d'annonces pour 1853 New Illustrated Works. Relié dans des planches marbrées contemporaines.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931. 1st edition Stated. Near Fine/very good +. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931 1st edition Stated in near fine condition with a very good + dust jacket. Orange cloth with red lettering. The spine is bumped but contents are clean and tight with perhaps some light foxing The dust jacket is not price clipped, has a couple of small closed tears, and quite a bit of fading to the spine. It is in a protective dust jacket.

Kampala, Uganda: Transition Ltd, 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 4to, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Rare 1968 issue of this seminal African magazine, then published in Uganda. The article in this issue by Picho Ali triggered letters in the next issue and a court case that resulted in the jailing of editor Rajat Neogy and the departure of the magazine from Uganda. Issue also includes a full-page caricature of Enoch Powell by Ralph Steadman, a cartoon referencing the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK, writing by Chinua Achebe and Peter Enahoro, other interesting content. Unmarked copy, some bumping and wear.

[African Americans] Negroes in the United States. Washington: Government printing Office. 1916. Second edition. Green printed wraps. 31 cm. Illustrated. Maps. Charts. 207 pp. Other title: United States Bureau of the Census. Bulletin 129. Covers chipped and stained. Interior very good.
OCLC shows only two holdings in Texas (Univ. North Texas & Texas Tech Univ.) Scarce today. Originally published in 1915 and reprinted the following year. Prepared in the Division of revisions and results under the general supervision of Dr. Joseph A. Hill, expert special agent. The statistical tables were planned and arranged by ... Charles E. Hall, William Jennifer, and Robert A. Pelham. Much useful information.

A definitive work on the African-American community in Los Angeles from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.