The polished hoe; a novel
Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2002. Hardcover. 462p., first Canadian printing, dust jacket, very good condition. Afro-Caribbean novelist. More
Cat.No: 129955
Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2002. Hardcover. 462p., first Canadian printing, dust jacket, very good condition. Afro-Caribbean novelist. More
Cat.No: 129955
Buenos Aires: Editorial La Pléyade, 1974. Paperback. 219, [5]p., wraps. 8 x 5.5 in. Edges chipped and rubbed; spine split from foot up about 1.5 in. Good. Text in Spanish. Study of abolition of slavery in newly independent Latin American nation-states. More
Cat.No: 318670
Baltimore: DuForcelf Black Classic Press, 1994. Paperback. 188p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps, remainder marks to bottom page edges. Baltimore writer and educator. More
Cat.No: 184632
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. Hardcover. 231p., first edition, slightly edgeworn dust jacket, otherwise very good. Stedman was among the mercenaries who suppressed the Surinam slave rebellion; his Narrative is one of the most famous accounts of 18th century rebellions. More
Cat.No: 118365
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. Hardcover. x, 265p., v [index], illustrated with line-maps and period prints, hardbound later printing of the American first edition in papered boards and a decorated cloth backstrip. Slight external signs of handling, a nice copy: quite sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 297489
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1976. Hardcover. xi, 370p., first printing thus, dj. More
Cat.No: 95718
New York: International Publishers, 1942. Paperback. 47p. wraps shelfworn with creases and wear at the head and tail of the spine and all edges, 5.5x7.5 inches. 20¢ price to lower corner of front cover (presumed later printing as we have handled copies with 15¢ price). More
Cat.No: 316583
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. Paperback. xviii, 344p., line maps and inserted plates, very good condition in wraps. More
Cat.No: 124422
New Haven: Yale University Press. Published in Kenya by Kenya Literature Bureau, 1981. Paperback. xv, 328p., wraps; line maps, graphs, tables, faint shelfwear on wrapper edges, else a very good condition book with a clean interior. More
Cat.No: 179595
New York: Atria Books, 2004. Hardcover. xi, 212p., first printing, very good in like dust jacket. A discussion of social healing processes and their conflicts - reparations, truth commissions, etc. More
Cat.No: 121431
Atlanta: Atlanta University, 1964. Paperback. pp109-208, spine chipped, else very good first edition academic journal in gray wraps printed red. Articles include "Towards Freedom: An Analysis of Slave Revolts in the United States," "The Fire Next Time? A Critical Survey of Belles Lettres By and About Negroes Published in 1963,"..... More
Cat.No: 295464
San Francisco and New York: Center for the Study of Instruction and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Paperback. 230p., illus. with black & white photos and drawings, very good in pocket-size wraps. Black history text developed in San Francisco. More
Cat.No: 87366
Berkeley: Homeward Press, 1991. Paperback. 80p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrations, very good reissue trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Radical poetry, an epic-length history of the conquest from Columbus to the CIA. Originally published in booklet format in 1988. More
Cat.No: 201618
Boston: an atlantic monthly press book / Little, Brown and Company, 1961 [but later]. Paperback. xxvii, 311p., reprint in 7.5x5 inch soft binding of the Davidson book first published as "Black Mother;" mild rubbing to covers, a sound copy, cleanly and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 259850
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Hardcover. x, 305p., first printing, very good in dj. More
Cat.No: 84864
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. Paperback. xvi, 302p., preface, footnotes, index, good first edition trade paperback in green printed wraps. More
Cat.No: 207699
Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1993. Paperback. 164p., pictorial wrappers, 5.5x8.5 inches; illus., in very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author. Young adult novel about an African American woman who was kidnapped from a plantation at 11 and how she became a renowned seamstress through trial and tribulation. Set..... More
Cat.No: 283466
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Hardcover. 307p., hardbound in blue boards titled silverfoil and dust jacket. Mild edgewear to casing and dj with a couple tiny corner-tip turnings; sound and unmarked, but very faintly musty. The especially susceptable should be wary, most will not notice. The teeterings of slavery..... More
Cat.No: 253410
Boston: South End Press, 2002. Paperback. xxiii, 504p., wraps, 6x9 inches, very good first paperback edition. Essays covering race, sexuality and radicalism. More
Cat.No: 267025
New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1904. Hardcover. vi, 56p., original green, pocket-sized, cloth boards with gilt titling and untrimmed leaves; ownership rubberstamp on dedication page of C. H. Bailey, corners somewhat bumped, text block edges slightly toned, else in very good condition. Religious fiction about the Hebrew slaves by a...... More
Cat.No: 293356
San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1985. Paperback. 149p., very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Adonis Classics AC341. Biker leathermen holding young men slaves in a torture dungeon. More
Cat.No: 319669
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1891. vii, 351p., a reprint from the original 1867 plates; maroon cloth boards spine-titled gilt. Somewhat edgeworn and dust- and handling-soiled with several tiny tears in the rim, an otherwise sound (and "unsophisticated") copy. More
Cat.No: 154597
New York :: Los Angeles :: Toronto :: London: Samuel French. Ltd., 1942. Pamphlet. 32p., 5x7.5 inches; illustration of scene design, a note on costumes, slight damp stain follows spine wraps, otherwise in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 295474
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1937. Hardcover. 45p., previous owner's gift inscription, first Canadian edition. More
Cat.No: 156196