Slavery
Eneas Africanus
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1937. Hardcover. 45p., previous owner's gift inscription, first Canadian edition. More
Cat.No: 156196
Eneas Africanus
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1940. Hardcover. xvii, 38p., illustrated, Originally published in 1920, this Grosset and Dunlap reprint, dated 1940, is about good. Fading to spine and edges. Corners and spine extremities worn. Previous owner's address stamped to map illustrated front pastedown endpaper. Stamps to top corner of page..... More
Cat.No: 264778
The Light Continent
London [Bombay]: Asia Publishing House, 1960. xvii, 192p., illustrated with numerous b&w photos, maps and genealogies, a hardbound book in dust jacket. Book was printed in Madras, India and published in Bombay, and exhibits India's binding faults; the preliminary leaves show a gap with threads exposed, the cloth casing is..... More
Cat.No: 235520
Black dance in the United States from 1619 to 1970, with foreword by Katherine Dunham
Palo Alto: National Press Books, 1972. Hardcover. x, 370p., illustrated in b&w from period cuts and modern dance photography, hardbound first edition in tan cloth boards lettered black and enclosed in the dust jacket. The book itself is quite fresh, entirely sound, clean and unmarked, while the dj is somewhat..... More
Cat.No: 72864
Patrick R. Cleburne, Prophet
De Land, FL: Self-published by the author, 1946. Pamphlet. 15p., staplebound, 6 x 9 inches; slight edge wear, minor foxing throughout, corrective pen notations on front wrapper, else good. Reprinted from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine (1946). Signed and inscribed by the author. More
Cat.No: 278163
The Christian martyrs, or, The conditions of obedience to the civil government : a discourse
Boston: W. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1851. Pamphlet. 51p, 5.5 x 9 inches, wraps, text block in very good condition, spine covering largely worn away but hand-sewn signatures intact, covers worn and corners bent. J.G. Forman (1820-1885) "minister of the Second Congregational Church in Nantucket, until recently minister of the..... More
Cat.No: 173555
The Emancipation Proclamation
Garden City: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, 1965. Mass Market Paperback. xiv, 179p., plus (appended) a substantial publisher's menu, a small (7x4 inch) softbound reprint, covers are slightly "handled", expect a couple of ink underlines to p.9, an illegible ownership in ink (on half-title), and several misfolded corner-tips elsewhere..... More
Cat.No: 301114
Shadows of race and class
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991. xxvii, 189p. On "race-class relations among African Americans" since 1950 (p. ix). No dj. More
Cat.No: 52403
White supremacy; a comparative study in American and South African history
New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. xxv, 356p., trade-size softback (8x5.2 inch glossy wraps), paperstock is pervasively toned, a clean, sound, very good copy. More
Cat.No: 176306
Born in Blackness; Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021. Hardcover. 499p., numerous b&w illustrations and maps, hardbound in 9.5x6 inch dark blue boards gilt and enclosed in the amazing dust jacket. An all-but-immaculate copy, a Library of Congress Duplicate with its stamp a little crooked on the titlepage and an LC sticker to..... More
Cat.No: 303249
The legend of Daniel Williams
New York: Julian Messner, 1956. Hardcover. 256p., slightly egdeworn dust jacket, some foxing on block edges, else in very good condition. Williams, an African American ex-slave, went to Canada, worked for the Hudson Bay Company, and in 1880 was put on trial in Saskatchewan for murder. More
Cat.No: 2713
O escravo nos anúnicos de jornais Brasileiros do século xix
São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1979. lxiii, 125p., previous owners' gift inscription, second (revised) edition, wraps. More
Cat.No: 130571
Ordem e progresso; processo de desintegração das sociedades patriarcal e semipatriarcal no Brasil sob o regime de trabalho livre: aspectos de um quase meio século de transição do trabalho escravo para o trabalho livre; e da monarquia para a républica, com 37 ilustrações
Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editôra, 1959. Two volumes. 793p., illus. includes foldouts, vol. I in slightly worn wraps, vol. II wraps professionally rebound in edgeworn buckram. Text in Portuguese. Obras reunidas de Gilberto Freyre. More
Cat.No: 126527
A presença do açúcar na formação Brasileira; capa e ilustrações de Hugo Paulo
Rio de Janiero: Instituto do Açúcar e do Álcool, 1975. viii, 212p. + Paulo's color illus., wraps. More
Cat.No: 77453
Sweetsmoke: a novel
New York: Hyperion, 2008. Hardcover. 310p., endpaper maps, signed by the author on title page, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Debut novel of the LA-based writer. Set on a Virginia Plantation in 1862 it concerns the efforts of a skilled carpenter, a slave, who seeks answers..... More
Cat.No: 190410
Progress against the tide
New York: Vantage Press, 1989. xix, 187p., first edition, very good in a like dj. An interpretation of African American history, from slavery to the present, by the federal judge. More
Cat.No: 119174
The Negro problem in the United States; its rise, development and solution. Presented to the University of Leipzig, for the degree of doctor of philosophy
Westport: Negro Universities Press, 1970. 116p. Reprint of the 1892 doctoral dissertation. About half on slavery, the rest on the post-Civil War eras; originally published in Leipzig 1892. Gage matriculated there in 1889. More
Cat.No: 85095
Slave Master's Choice
San Francisco: Loose Id, 2012. Paperback. 259p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Vanity press gay slavery novel. M/M Romance Novel by woman author. More
Cat.No: 218054
British and American abolitionists; an episode in transatlantic understanding
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1974. Hardcover. 341p., cloth boards in dj, a very good copy. "Nearly 500 letters are transcribed and annotated. The subjects covered range from the annexation of Texas to colonial policy in India, from the Irish problem to women's rights and the Young India movement. Many of..... More
Cat.No: 5793
Myth and southern history
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Two volumes, second edition, wraps. Vol. I: The Old South, xv, 208p. Vol. II: xv, 190p. With considerable material on the relationship of blacks to southern history, with articles by David Brion Davis, C. Vann Woodward, John Hope Franklin, and many others. More
Cat.No: 46170
Narrative of Sojourner Truth, part III
Los Angeles: John Henry and Mary Louisa Dunn Bryant Foundation, 1964. Pamphlet. 28p., stapled wraps with a reproduction of a Charles White painting, very good condition, 3.5x8.5 inches. More
Cat.No: 56889
The torturer's wife
San Francisco: City Lights, 2008. Trade Paperback. 262p., fine first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 148341
The Cartoon History of the United States
New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. Paperback. Signed copy: 392p., sketchy comix panels exclusively, later printing 9x7.5 inch decorated wraps. Textblock yawns just slightly, paperstock is turning yellow near the margin. This copy is inscribed to Robert [L.] Allen by Gonick on title page next his printed graphic; and, laid in, is..... More
Cat.No: 180387
Último escalón alcanzado por la plantación comercial azucarera esclavista 1827-1886. Grupos dominantes. Su influencia hasta 1940 atlas del borde delantero de la plantación azucarera esclavista
Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 2003. 97p., 11x8.5 inches, very good in wraps. More
Cat.No: 114616