Race, Racism, Prejudice from Books of the World

Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, May 2011. First printing (stated) / full number line. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight, tail lightly bumped. Jacket clean and bright with slight edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xii + 291 pages, 16 pages of plates.

Chantilly, Virginia: The Teaching Company, 2001. Audio CDs. 2nd Edition. Twelve 30-minute lectures on six Fine Audio CDs in Fine original case along with an As New paperback Course Guidebook (58 pages). No shrinkwrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. These twelve lectures are designed to answer two questions that have nagged generations… Read more

London: Arrow Books / Random House, September 2000. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Interior lightly tanned, otherwise pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 323 pages. A unique modern memoir of growing up in rural China, Colours of the Mountain is a powerful… Read more

Georgetown, Guyana: Free Press, 2008. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. First Edition. Near Fine. Stamp from Austin's Book Services to title page. Label scar and light rubbing to pictorial card covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. ii + 46 pages. Discount available for academic libraries. A tragic tale of deception and discrimination by an arrogant caste of military officers and colonial officials.… Read more

New York: Pocket Books, February 1986. Mass Market Paperback. Sixth printing. Very Good. Interior tanned, but unmarked. Spine faded, but straight, tight and uncreased. Rubbing to covers. Dog-ear crease to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 220 pages. A Black woman who grew up amid prejudice and poverty in the South finds comfort and strength… Read more

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition / full number line. Very Good book / no jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Ends bumped. No jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 176 pages. Long, long ago Santa Claus had an African partner named Pete, who helped with the holiday rounds. Together the friends brought… Read more

London: Headline Review. Paperback. 2004. First Edition, second paperback printing. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Spine straight and tight but creased. Covers clean. Stickers from Giggles Bookshop, Madras, India to rear cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 441 pages. Winner of the Whitbread, Orange and Commonwealth Writer's Prizes. Hortense shared Gilbert's dream of leaving Jamaica and coming… Read more

Freetown, Sierra Leone: People's Educational Association of Sierra Leone, 1987. Staple-bound pamphlet. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Securely bound by two rusted staples. Original price penciled to front cover. B&W photos. 47 pages. Stories collected at Towaama village, Bo District, Southern Province, May 1st, 1986 and later translated by Frederick Bobor James.

Jamaica, B.W.I.: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University College of the West Indies, in association with the Program for the Study of Man in the Tropics, Columbia University, 1957. Hardcover. First Edition. Good+ book. No jacket as published. Prior owner's names and address on endpaper. Notes and underling to text. Tanning to cover. Spine straight and tight. Spine ends… Read more

New York: Random House Audio. Audio CD. 2005. Fine. Includes the 2004 Democratic Convention Keynote address. Six Fine CDs in a Near Fine case with light edgewear. 7 hours, 30 minutes. .

Washington, DC: Sierra Leone Institute for Policy Studies. Periodical. 1994. Very Good. Not from a library. Interior unmarked. Spine square and tight. No tears, creases, or folds. 163 pp. Contents: Transition Programme: A Hollow Promise?; Citizenship Law Reform: Is the Patrial Clause Racial Discrimination in the Constitution?; Historical Review of Elections in Sierra Leone; A Requiem for an… Read more

Angola: União dos Escritores Angolanos + Empresa Nacional de Prospecção, Exploração, Lapidação e Comercialização de Diamantes de Angola, 1989. Hardcover. Green cloth in boards. An extremely rare copy of the Angolan publication of the first English translation of Xitu's classic "Mestre" Tamoda stories. Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. Minor shelfware and dust soiling to edges.… Read more

Angola: União dos Escritores Angolanos + Empresa Nacional de Prospecção, Exploração, Lapidação e Comercialização de Diamantes de Angola, c. 1982. Hardcover. Green cloth in boards. Very good book in a very good dust jacket. Minor shelfwear and dust soiling to edges. Binding tight and square. Interior unmarked other than a price penciled on the front free endpaper. 184 pages. 8vo.… Read more

Conakry, Guinee: Parti Démocratique de Guinée, 1969. Rare. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author. Black leatherette boards stamped in gold. 81 pages. Includes nine poems written after the 1964 first edition was published. No publisher or city listed, but the front cover shows the elephant symbol of the Parti Démocratique de Guinée which published the much shorter first edition in paperback.… Read more

New York: Street & Smith Publications. Digest-size Magazine. December 1961 & January 1962. First Edition. Dec: Good; Jan: Very Good+. Mack Reynolds's novel Blackman's Burden first appeared in print when it was serialized as Black Man's Burden in the December 1961 and January 1962 issues of Analog Science Fact - Science Fiction with 12 interior illustrations by… Read more

New York: Condé Nast Publications. July-August 1962. Digest-size Magazines. First Edition. Good+. Mack Reynolds's novel Border, Breed, Nor Birth first appeared in print when it was serialized in the July and August 1962 issues of Analog Science Fact - Science Fiction with 8 interior illustrations by John Schoenherr. It is the continuation of Black Man's Burden, published in… Read more

Chantilly, Virginia: The Teaching Company, 2001. Audio CDs. 2nd Edition. Twelve 30-minute lectures on six Fine Audio CDs in Fine original clamshell case along with an As New paperback Course Guidebook (58 pages). Not from a library. Suitable for gifting. These twelve lectures are designed to answer two questions that have nagged generations ever since Hitler and Nazism were… Read more