Down by the riverside; a South Carolina slave community
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Paperback. xxii, line map, period photos and imagery, 344p., wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 56497
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984. Paperback. xxii, line map, period photos and imagery, 344p., wraps, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 56497
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1998. Hardcover. 128p., first printing, dj. For young adults. More
Cat.No: 109207
Boston: Plays, Inc., 1999. Paperback. 157p., very good reprint of the expanded edition, wraps. 11 plays for young people on Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, Arthur Ashe, John Henry, Langston Hughes, abolition etc. More
Cat.No: 141439
London: Routledge, 1992. Trade Paperback. xi, 274p., wraps, mild cover soil. Greatest emphasis here is on slavery. More
Cat.No: 101921
New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1968. Hardcover. 218p. + 8p. illus., first US edition, dj. On the slave trade; Kay is a professional writer ("author of over fifty books") and no specialist in race or racism. More
Cat.No: 9522
New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Printers, 1866. Pamphlet. 18p. pamphlet, very good. Third edition, with a new preface noting the continuing applicability of the piece even after the conclusion of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. Though he does not mention it in this essay, Samuel..... More
Cat.No: 281600
Philsdelphia: Rozov Press, 1967. Staplebound. 16p. reprint of the 1863 C. Sherman edition, very good in wraps, this reprint "limited to 200 copies". FyI, these "pictures" are word-pictures. More
Cat.No: 148859
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1949. Hardcover. 366p., hardbound first edition in boards and partial dust jacket. Casing is mildly edgeworn, textblock has a touch of foxing to foredge and endsheets, but the dust jacket has a huge chunk missing from rear panel causing chin-loss to author's portrait; plus general wear..... More
Cat.No: 108955
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Hardcover. xxi, 253p., review copy with sheet laid in along with a letter to Herbert Aptheker from The Journal of American History requesting his review, signed on the f.e.p. by Aptheker, first printing, dj. There is an inked squiggle in the margin of p.2, possibly..... More
Cat.No: 48149
Hartford: L. Skinner, 1840. 38p., some foxing throughout, disbound wraps with library stamp. A tight, useful copy. More
Cat.No: 115140
Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1989. Trade Paperback. ix, 270p., wraps, nice clean copy. "..the climate of opinion in Cuba..which regarded manumission as a natural part of slavery and something that was to be expected for the majority of slaves. This attitude was deeply imbedded traditional custom and law.." More
Cat.No: 86969
Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1967. Hardcover. xi, 270p., first edition hardbound in fancy cloth boards (brown over orange with gilt decoration) and enclosed in the dust jacket (quite dull, compared to case). Jacket a bit rubbed, and expect a few marginal tics in ink, ergo a very presentable..... More
Cat.No: 154906
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. Hardcover. 319p., a nice reprint designed for the collected works ("Danube Edition"), hardbound in openweave green cloth boards gilt & blind, and enclosed in the glossy dead-white "series" dust jacket lettered black. An excellent copy, perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. The novel of the..... More
Cat.No: 44327
New York: n.pub. 1952. Paperback. 48p., wraps slightly browned else very good condition, first edition, second state, 5.25x7.75 inches. More
Cat.No: 34421
New York: n.pub. 1952. Paperback. 48p., wraps slightly browned else good condition (missing pages per Kramer's note), first edition, first state, 5.25x7.75 inches. Hand-written note from Kramer laid in "This is one of six surviving copies of the first Denmark Vesey printing, which was discovered to be defective in a...... More
Cat.No: 215093
New York: Pitel Publishing Company, 1936. Paperback. Unpaginated, printed throughout on coated paperstock in very good condition, profusely illustrated with Krukman's art. Softbound in 10.5x8 inch paper covers, their clerical edges quite worn, interior very good. Rendition of the gospel story from the point of view of a slave in..... More
Cat.No: 45124
Dover, TN: Crystal Dreams Publishing, 2001. Pamphlet. ix, 248p., pictorial wraps, in very good condition. Science fiction novel with romantic elements about enslaved servants who work and breed for wealthy masters. African American author. More
Cat.No: 310965
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1981. Paperback. xii, 124p., softbound in 9x6 inch pictorial wraps, first paperback printing. Tennessee three star books. More
Cat.No: 53536
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971. Hardcover. xvi, 413p., first edition black cloth boards in dust jacket. Nice copy, entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Contributors include Thorpe, Genovese, Stuckey and a dozen others. More
Cat.No: 87124
New York: The Noonday Press, 1989. Paperback. viii, 257p., wraps. American century series. More
Cat.No: 52106
Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2015. Paperback. 160p., pictorial wraps, as New. Anarchist interpretation. More
Cat.No: 293529
Moscu: Editorial Progreso, 1977. Hardcover. 453p., provided with numerous statistical tables, hardbound in dark blue cloth boards titled in bronze and enclosed in the dust jacket. Please note, item is entirely in the Spanish language. Dust jacket is slightly edgeworn, the casing and textblock are fresh and unhandled, no markings..... More
Cat.No: 299117
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Hardcover. xii, 372p., later printing, dj. With chapters on Garvey, jazz, Frank Capra, and much more. More
Cat.No: 72211
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1932. Hardcover. viii, 269p., black cloth boards with titling in gilt; ownership signature on page 3, half-removed bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, board edges and spine somewhat toned, text block edges are slightly toned, else very good. More
Cat.No: 307622