Search Results: Africans & African Americans from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York, London, Sydney & Toronto: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on half-title. Black cloth, blind-stamped front board, white titles on spine, top edge dyed blue, grey endpapers, [xi], 257 pp. Top corners lightly bumped, else fine. DJ in Brodart archival cover. The inscription is "To Ruth Winter -- Best wishes to a friend and colleague. Whitney Young, Jr." Young was Executive Director of the Urban League at the time this book was published. In addition to his many later accomplishments, he earned his master's degree in social work at the University of Minnesota in 1947. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Near Fine/Fine. 22 X 15 cm.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1995 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black paper-covered boards, xix, 379 pp, 1-page ad. DJ in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "In Black Lies, White Lies, Tony Brown does what few high-profile African Americans have done before" He dares to challenge the lies of both Black and White leaders, and he dares to tell the truth. He attacks White racism and Black self-victimization with equal vehemence. ... But Tony Brown does not simply slash and burn. He also offers farsighted, workable solutions to America's problems. He provides a blueprint for American renewal based on his belief that although we may not all have come to this country on the same ship, we are all now in the same boat." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

Minneapolis: T. S. Denison & Company, Inc, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Association Copy. Pictorial cloth, pale blue & black titles on white spine, 203, [2] pp, 25 b & w photos in text, index. Two leaves browned by newspaper book review laid in, otherwise fine. Movingly inscribed by the subject to his son & dated in the year of publication. Biography of the publisher of Twin Cities African-American newspapers, the Minneapolis Spokesman and St. Paul Recorder. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. 22 X 14½ cm.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on half-title. Burgundy boards, foil titles on spine, blind titles on front board, burgundy endpapers, xv. 254 pp, bibliography, index. Slight soil to top edge, spine ends slightly rubbed. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Contents: ethnicity versus race; multiculturalism & the Bush Supreme Court; Paul Robeson & the universality of Black culture; Black & White history; liberal education's melting pot; cultural diversity in the workplace; gender & the minority fixation; Jews & Blacks; the Black middle class; birth of a new American culture. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Light grey cloth, blue titles on spine, 320 pp. Bottom edge browning a bit, a Christmas Seal and address portion of original mailing wrapper are attached to front endpapers. DJ spine ends & corners tattered, rear panel foxed, corners trimmed (but price still present), the striking cover painting by Marion Greenwood is still bright & attractive; in Brodart archival cover. Reads like a novel, but purports to be the biography of Leeha Whitfield and is catalogued as such by the Library of Congress. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/G+. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author on half-title. Pastel green cloth with brown titles & dec. on spine, dec. on front board, device on rear board, ix, 270, [2] pp. Cloth snagged at lower corner of front board, else VG, cloth faded and somewhat worn at top & bottom edges. DJ rubbed, chipped, torn, and soiled with a few small water spots, but substantially complete; in Brodart archival cover. After a brief description of the South as it was during his childhood and changes wrought by the war, Rowan, a Minneapolis Tribune reporter and president of the Minneapolis Urban League, describes conditions (i. e., race relations) as observed during 6000-mile tour of the South. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . G+/G+. 21 X 14½ cm.