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1950. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First Printing. 190 pages. Text unmarked . Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. Signet 761. Black woman novelist born in New England and raised middle class. Her debut novel The STreet was the first novel by and African-American woman to sell more that a million copies. Attractive, vintage mass market/pocket paperback with colorful Good Girl GGA painted cover art. Cover copy reads: "A revealing novel of marital infidelity" / Unread or gently read condition. Cover is bright, sharp and glossy. Very light bumping to corners and spine ends. Small laminate peel at edges. Cover slightly misaligned/mistrimmed (binding quirk). Pages supple and only slightly edge tanned. Illustrator: James Avati. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 8 ounces. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::African-American ; Inventory No: 030230. BZDB373 Vintage Paperbacks::African-American ; James Avati Unbranded… Read More

New York, NY, 1946. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust jacket. First Printing. (Pocket 382). Reconstruction-era South Carolina novel. / Would be FINE condition except for some sun-fading to spine (particularly over "Howard"). Pages faintly edge tanned, but supple. Binding square and solid. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 8 ounces. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::African-American ; Inventory No: 030056. BZDB373 Vintage Paperbacks::African-American ; Unbranded Howard Fast Freedom Road

1993. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 171 pages. SIGNED and warmly inscribed to previous owner (otherwise text unmarked). Some foxing/staining to edges of text block. Neatly closed tear to bottom edge of front cover. Spine shows reading crease but soild. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 pounds. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::African-American ; ISBN: 0870673947. Inventory No: 030719. BZDB373 Vintage Paperbacks::African-American ; Unbranded ISBN: 0870673947 Mattie M. Lawson; Sharon Wellington (as told to) From Colored Water 'Til Now

New York, NY, 1953. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good Condition. Paperback Original. Size: 5.25" x 7.5". 126 pages. Text unmarked . Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. (Uni Book No. 75). Vintage digest paperback with excellent painted cover art. Black, African-American Professional themes. Inter-racial romance themes, Doctor, patient romance themes. Cover copy reads: "There were many lovely women who had designs on Dr. Ray Harmon, the rising young Harlem physician, many who placed their lush and hungry bodies in his care. Inevitably it was a woman who brought him to disgrace, a wayward blonde temptress who looked into his bronze face and throughout the price was cheap!"/ An uncommon and in demand title in high-grade condition. Cover bright complete and glossy with slight reading wear and some faint wrinkles at the corners. Pages edge-tanned but supple. Final text page shows a 2" tear but no text loss. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 8 ounces. Category: Vintage… Read More

New York, NY, 1949. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Dust jacket. SIGNET 706. Fourth Printing of the signet paperback. WWII, Black Interest. Avati painted cover. "Deals with Negro GI's in occupied Germany, and their experiences with the men, women and girls of that defeated country." / Cover is bright. Laminate intact with some slight ribbing at edges. Some superficial horizontal bends across spine. Previous owner's name inked on an early page (otherwise text unmarked). Pages moderately tanned but supple. Binding square and solid. Illustrator: James Avati. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 8 ounces. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::African-American ; Inventory No: 030054. BZDB373 Vintage Paperbacks::African-American ; James Avati Unbranded William Gardner Smith Last of the Conquerors