Search Results: African-american Literature from Bungalow Books, ABAA

Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 2021. Hardcover. 303074678X . Signed by Messer on the title page. Issued in pictorial boards without a dust jacket. Bibliography, index.; 104 pages; Signed by Author .

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0472650955 . Black cloth with photo endpapers. Owner notation and green sharpie marking to the front endpaper. The dust jacket has a small stamp to the front flap. The title refers to the Detroit storefront address for the Mom and Tots Neighborhood Center, initiated by the author as a new concept in community health care. ; 209 pages .

New York: Dover. Good. 1958. Half-Leather. A unique binding of African Sculpture done in leathers from Africa. The front cover depicts an African head, and the back cover is a map of Africa hand stamped in mottled gray. The book is a Dover original hard cover, with the original covers removed. Offsetting to the endpapers. .

New York: Citadel Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 1559723254 . Later printing. Brown cloth spine over tan boards. Faint smudging to the bottom page edges. A narrative cookbook of personal accounts, photographs and anecdotes that highlight the historical and civil rights legacy of the Tuskegee Institute. ; 210 pages .

New York: Vantage Press. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1964. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth lettered along the spine. Dampstaining to the volume and dust jacket, with a tear to the rear fold and a chip to the dust jacket spine. Publisher's price of $3.95 on the front flap. The author was an educator and civil rights advocate in Denver, Colorado. ; 300 pages .

New York: Addison-Wesley. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0201624621 . Signed by Reed on the title page. An advance copy with publisher's press release laid in. A faint stain to the bottom page edges.; 284 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060139749 . Black cloth stamped in silver along the spine. A small stain near the tail of the spine. An unmarked copy in a rubbed and creased dust jacket. Publisher's price of $7.95 on the front flap. This landmark study debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. Widely considered the best analysis of family and kinship in a ghetto Black community ever published.; 175 pages .

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press. Good. 1977. Stapled wraps. Signed by Coleman to the first page, "Hey guys, thanks for the spot in Look Quick/W/9-1-77." Look Quick (1975-88) was a little poetry magazine that published Coleman earlier in the year. Creasing to the covers. Coleman's first separate publication of poetry, issued in the monthly series of Sparrow chapbooks. ; [13] pages; Signed by Author .

Boulder: Pruett Publishing Company. Very Good. 1970. Softcover. 0871080435 . Signed and inscribed by Bruyn in 1973. Dust soiling to the page edges, and rubbing to the covers. Laid in are three letters from the author to William and Jeanette Thach of Walsenburg, CO, all in their mailing envelopes. Along with a letter from Jeanette Thach and one from Ruth R. Weeks of Omaha, who's mentioned in the book's acknowledgments. An uncommon biography of this former slave and Colorado pioneer. ; 206 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good. 1994. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Campbell. An Advance Reading Copy in illustrated wrappers, Very Good with light rubbing. Set in Los Angeles after the Rodney King riots, this novel explores both racial and sexual tensions. ; 473 pages; Signed by Author .

Santa Monica, CA: Angel City Press. Fine. 2006. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 1883318734 . Signed by Young. The author presents his first collection of poetry since being named California Poet Laureate. ; 63 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Neale Publishing Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1913. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt along the spine. Rubbing to the cloth, with a small stain to the rear board. The gilt on the spine is still legible. Dust soiling to the page edges. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard intact. Binding sound, an unmarked copy. Born into slavery in Louisiana and freed under the Emancipation Proclamation, Lynch was the first African-American Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, and among the first generation of African Americans elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving from 1873-1877 and again in the 1880s. Includes an account of an interview between Lynch and President Cleveland, as well as portraits of Black members of Congress. Krick 290. ; 325 pages .

Fort Carson, CO: Public Affairs and Information Office. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. Signed to the inside front cover, "To Mr. Joel Webb/In appreciation of your special role in the history of Fort Carson/....'a nation that is dulled by indifference to the past cannot hope to make the future great...'/James F. Hamlet, Major General, US Army." Major Gen. Hamlet became the first African American general to command an Army division in the continental United States, when he assumed command of Fort Carson, Colorado and the Fourth Infantry Division. Green boards illustrated and lettered in yellow. A scrape to the front board, else unmarked.; 96 pages; Signed by Associated .

Chicago: Loop College. Good. 1971. Stapled wraps. Black and white illustrated covers. Scattered stains, and a scrape to the front cover. A stain to the first page. Contributors: Russell J. Benford, John Berry, Lewis Beyers, Jane Bunk, Noreen Collins, Mark Dunmire, Lissa Estrada, feiteR, Faith C. Flournoy, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Lloyd Gold, G. A. Harris, Calvin Hoover, Paul Kaczocha, Karl G. Kasberg, Cris Kaulukukui, Elizabeth Knox, G. Krantz, Tom Ladshaw, Granny C. Littricebey, Harold Lessick, Clara Manfredi, Elaine Monaco, Patrick J. Moremott, J. E. Nigg, Djordje Nikolic, Kevin O'Rourke, J. Robinson, Alice Rogoff, Beverly Sobieski, LeRoy Sorrell, Gary Stankorb, Malcolm Thomas, and J. William Meyers. Cover art by Herbert Stemley. Founded in 1962, Garland Court Review is the literary journal of Harold Washington College. OCLC locates only three holdings.; 64 pages .

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press. New. [2017]. Full-Leather. Signed by Giovanni. Dark brown leather decorated in gilt, raised bands accented with actual 22kt gold, all edges gilt, moiré endsheets, and a satin bookmark. As new in the publisher's shrinkwrap. ; 128 pages; Signed by Author .

Los Angeles: Self-Published. Very Good. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Orange wrappers printed in black, with a cover illustration of the author in blackface. Stories, skits and songs performed on vaudeville that caricatured African-Americans. ; 127 pages .

New York: Amistad. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060536659 . Signed by Lewis on the title page. Slight crimping to the tail of the spine. The author's second short story collection. ; 202 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: McGraw-Hill. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0070190372 . Signed by Edwards-Yearwood on the title page. Green cloth spine over gray boards. The bottom corners are bumped, and tanning to the pages. A first novel that covers racial history from the World War II Harlem riots to the exploitation of black soldiers during the Vietnam War.; 279 pages; Signed by Author .

San Francisco: Journal of Black Poetry. Very Good. 1969. Stapled wraps. Black and white illustrated wrappers. Dust soiling and creasing, with a small tear over the top staple. Stains to page 74, else unmarked. Contributors: Welton Smith, Robert L. Bray, Lawrence Benford, Alicia Johnson, Olubiyi Olumola, John Fisher, Clarence Major, Iyshaa Salaam, Bill Jackson, Gerald W. Barrax, Omar Harrkon, Victor H. Cruz, Sonia Sanchez and Ed Bullins. Features interviews with Ishmael Reed and Milford Graves. Includes an essay by Ameer Baraka, who's listed as LeRoi Jones under contributing editors. Art from Arthur Carraway, with ads at the rear. The Journal of Black Poetry published 19 issues from the mid sixties through the mid seventies. ; 82 pages .

New York: Ballantine Books. Very Good. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0375758828 . Signed by Tramble on the title page. A crease to the top corner. Maceo Redfield returns to Oakland to help an old friend accused of murder. The second book in the series.; Trade PB; 309 pages; Signed by Author .