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New York: Basic Books, [2000]. First Edition, First Printing.
Small Quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches; 240 x 165 mm), xxx, 486, [4] pages.
INSCRIBED by Ishmael Reed on the title page: "For / Brian, / good / wishes. / Ishmael Reed / May 3 2000." Excerpts from Reed's novels, plays, essays, short stories, and poems. With a lengthy introduction by the author. A lovely copy.
CONDITION: Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket. Spine ends slightly bumped.

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. First Edition, 2nd Printing.
An important reference on African-American literature.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo, 594 pages, in dust jacket (hard cover).
CONDITION: Very Good, with small scrapes to both paste downs and the first few pages (not affecting any text) in a Near Fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and soiling.

Boston: Printed by S.N. Dickinson & Co., 1847. 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 183 x 119 mm), 12 pages, in original printed wrappers (softcover).A full-throated cry against slavery. The Quakers, who had long opposed slavery, wonder how a supposedly Christian nation could allow such evil to exist. "From the border slave states to the far south and southwest, the vessels of the slave-trader regularly ply, laden with youthful victims, reared like cattle for the market" (page 4). OCLC shows 21 physical holdings of this pamphlet by institutions (with far more in digital formats). None in commerce (November 2021). SCARCE. CONDITION: Slight soiling and creasing to wrappers, horizontal fold, probably for mailing. Very Good or better.

Robeson, Paul, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Roscoe Dungee.
To the President and Congress of the United States of America [Petition] and Typed Letter Bearing Signatures of Robeson, Du Bois, and Dungee. New York: [Communist Party USA], 1947.
Single-page typed letter and two-page petition, printed on rectos only. Each page 8 1/2 x 11 inches (215 x 280 mm).
A rare typed letter bearing signatures of Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Roscoe Dungee, asking recipients to sign a petition against banning the Communist Party USA. We believe the signatures were printed, as does an autograph expert we consulted.
In any case, the three African-American leaders sprang into action after President Truman's Labor Secretary, Lewis B. Schwellenbach, told Congress that the Communist Party should be outlawed. Schwellenbach was concerned about Communist control and infiltration of labor unions and thought no Communist should be allowed to lead a union.
The letter is dated March 22, 1947, and carries the address of 23 West 26th… Read More