Search Results: Black Americana-Black Interest from Books About The South

New York, and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1996. First Ediion. . Hardcover. Very Good+/None Issued. VG+/1st ed. A excellent copy of a very scarce title. Contains a stamp on the front free endpaper stating "Surplus Library of Congress Duplicate" and the number '20"lightl in ink on the top edge of pages. Light shadow of label on back cover. Otherwise, the book is new. Clean and tight, no wear to interior or exterior. 183 pages, conclusion, notes, references, index. Very Scarce.

Athens Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 2009. First Edition. . Hardcover. As New/As New. As New/As New/1st ed. Ten essays on various aspects of lives of the black inhabitants of the Georgia Lowcountry, including history, religion, culture, and isolation. The book was published by the University of Georgia Press and the Georgia Humanities Council and is based on an 2008 conference by the Ossabaw Island Foundation. Book and Jacket is as new in condition, never read, and jacket is covered with a removable mylar sleeve.

Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1998. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. F/F/1st printing. A clean, tight, copy that appears to have never been read. No markings of any kind, and nice square corners. No wear to jacket and has now been covered with mylar sleeve. 275pp. with many excellent early photos of African American Westerners. Notes, Appendix, index, maps. May have been a review copy, contains a "With Compliments from the Editors" card. Not ex-library, not a remainder.

Barmenda-Nkwen: Karl Grebe (Limited Edition), 1995. First Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good+. VG+/0/1st ed. Nice copy of the first edition before it was mass produced. This is a small pamphlet produced and published by the author in 1995. Stapled covers have some light rubbing to small section of cover. Firmly stapled, with clean bright pages. Previous owner's name discreetly written at top of title page. Excellent condition. Comes to you in a non acid document bag for storage. I can have this in the mail to you tomorrow. BASG

New York, New York: Simon and Shuster, 1966. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Photography by Robert Yellin. NF/VG/2nd prntng 1966. Some minor wear to jacket, but otherwise, quite a solid copy. The jacket has a nick at the heel of the spine, a small tear at the top of the spine, and a little wear to both top corners--splits. Minor soiling to jacket- some light foxing to a preliminary page--now sportin' a nice new mylar sleeve. Book's cloth covered panels are clean, binding is tight, no writing or marking inside or out. 256pp., many full page photos. words and scores of many songs, along with information about the daily life on Johns Island in the 1960s. Guy Carawan is best known as the folk singer that brought the song, "We Shall Overcome" to the Civil Rights Movement. The photographer was Robert Yellin, a member of the Greenbriar Boys, a well known folk group. Alan Lomax is a distinguished collector of folk music, and is responsible for the revival of many… Read More

New York, New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1998. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. F/F/1st ed., 1st prntng. Remainder. Very nice copy of the history of one of the segregated beaches for African Americans on Amelia Island in north Florida. American Beach was founded as a black resort by Florida's first black millionaire and the story turns on his great-granddaughters life. Book is clean and unmarked, with the exception of the black line on the heel of the pages, a remainder mark. Dust Jacket is clean, with no marks or tears and is covered with a removable mylar sleeve.

Los Angeles California: Center for Afro-American Studies University of California, 1978. Soft cover. Near Fine. NF/1978 printing. A very nice copy with a glued binding, bright white clean unmarked pages. 105pp., notes, bibliography, 5 appendices, glossary. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage, mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BASBR

St. Augustine Florida: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1997. Paperback. Very Good+. VG+/Revised and Expanded Edition. The remarkable story of an African teenage slave that married a slave trader and Florida planter Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. Emancipated in 1811, only five years after being torn from Africa, she became a landowner and the master of slaves of her own. Book is clean , securely and firmly stapled in covers. No marking or writing to interior or exterior. A little rubbing to cover along spine. Contains notes, b&w photos, maps. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage. I can have it in the mail to you tomorrow. BASP

Chicago Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1985. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. F/VG/1st ed. The Great Southern Drought of 1930-1931 scorched the lands and shattered the alsready hard-hit economies of Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tenenessee, and West Virginia. Woodruff poignantly portrays the plight of sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and coal miners in these states and documents the conflicting and controversial responses of Herbert Hoover, the American Red Cross, and local relief committes to the disaster. Book is clean and tight, no writing or soiling. Not ex-library or remainder. 203 pages, First Edition, b&w photos, bibliograpy, index. Dust jacket has several small closed tears and four small chips. Excellent even color, and now covered with a mylar sleeve.

New York, New York: Junior Literary Guild and Grosset and Dunlap, 1937. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/None Included. VG/First ed. Wonderful children's fiction on about the fourth grade level. Story appears to have both black and white children living on a plantation(or large farm) out in the middle of nowhere, and everyone plays together. Book has green cloth over boards with gold lettering to front and spine and a young girl on a horse galloping on the front cover. 148 pages, wonderfull illustrations. Endpapers are drawings of the farm. Binding tight, pages secure, with light tanning. A little wear at bottom edge of covers at corners(light shelfwear). 2 good size smudges from little fingers on title page. Nice solid copy.

University of Arkansas Press, 1999. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. F/F/1st ed., 1st prntng. An as new copy--covers lay complete flat, no marking or soiling in or on this copy at all. First Edition. Comes to you in an acid free document bag and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BRBAS

Chicago Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1979. Later Printing. . Paperback, Trade. Near Fine/None Issued. NF/later printing. Thomas Holt is concerned not only with the identities of the black politicians who gained power in South Carolina during Reconstruction, but also with the question of how they functioned with the political system. 269 pages, charts, appendices, bibliographical essays, index. Paperback appears unread; no creasing to cover, clean, no wear, no marking. Comes to you in an non acid document bag for storage, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BASP

New York, N Y: Peter Lang, 2001. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. F/F/1st. ed. An uncreased copy inscribed by the author to a close friend. Clean, no markings, appears unread. Comes with an advance purchase sheet from Peter Lang Publishing. 136pp., Bibliographic essay, select bibliography, index. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage.`

Fayetteville Arkansas: The University of Arkansas Press, 1996. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. F/F/1st ed., 1st. prntng./Signed. Black Savannah focuses upon efforts of African Americans, free and slave, who worked together to establish and maintain a variety of religious, social, and cultural institutions to carve out niches in the larger economy: and to form cohesive families. The result was an autonomous black community in a key city of the Old South. Among the most interesting groups that created Savannah's community, however, were "nominal slaves," slaves in name only who lived apart from their masters, seeking and finding their own employment. Book Condition is Fine; marbled black and white paper over boards with black cloth over spine, white lettering. 242pp. First Edition, first printing. Boldly signed and inscribed on half title page. Notes, Bibliography, index. Several appexdix. Book is clean, and tightly bound. No writing or markings to interior. Very attractive due to… Read More

1555212484: Blue and Gray Press, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. NF/NF/1st ed. Close to brand new. Excellent color with no fade, tight binding, jacket has no nicks or tears and is now covered with a mylar sleeve. Interior is clean and bright, no marking, no soiling, sharp cornered. Not ex-library or a remainder. 370pp., chronology, bibliography. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage, mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow.

University of Georgia Press, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. F/F/1st prntng. A perfect copy. This is a first printing(book shows a complete number line starting with 1). Jacket has great color, no nicks or tears and is now covered with a mylar sleeve. Book has tight binding and sharp corners, no markings or writing. 352pp., b&w photos throughout, notes, bibliography, index. Comes to you in an acid free archival bag for storage. Mailed to you boxed, and I can have it in mail tomorrow.

New York, New York: Harper and Row, 1956. Soft cover. Very Fine. VF/0/1956 paperback ed. This is an as new copy of Gwedolyn Brooks' Bronzeville Boys and Girls. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She was the Poet Laureate of Illinois, and later became the Library of Congress's Poet Laureate. Her first published book of poetry was "A Street in Bronzeville" in 1945. Bronzeville Boys and Girls was published 11 years later. This copy was published as part of the Creative Reading Program for schools, consist of 34 short poems for elementary school students. Comes to you in an acid free document bag; and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BASE

University of Virginia Press, 1992. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. VG/1st printing University of Virginia Press. A nice copy, clean with no wear or marking to interior. Cover have no wear but tend to gently curl up. 260pp., many illustrations, bibliography, index. Contributions to the decorative arts by African Americans, especially in Georgia. Comes to you in an acid free document bag, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BAS R

Orlando FL.: Academic Press, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. VG-/1st ed. A clean, tight copy, but alas, not a collectible copy. No markings to book with the exception of previous owner's initials discreetly written on the front paste down. No soiling, no foxing, not a remainder or library discard. Front cover corners more than slightly bumped. All silver lettering present on the front cover and spine. No jacket as issued. Slight slant to spine. Most corners bumped. Rough patch on back. 217pp., maps, photos, illustrations, charts, graphs, bibliography, index. Appendix: Statistical tests for Ceramic type and status, Statistical test for liquor bottles types and status. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage, mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow. BRBC

Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1992. First Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/None Issued. F/0/1st ed. The lives of slave and owner are intertwined in this interesting history of the influence of rice (and Afircan culture) on the economy and households of the Old South. The facsimile of Carolina Rice Cook Book is a fascinating bonus, and there are plenty of recipes to try. Book Condition is Fine; clean large trade paperback with no markings or soiling. 214pp. First Ediition.