n.p. Billboard, 1985. Brad-bound quarto (8-3/4 x 11 inches) in blue card wraps. Paneled title pasted on to front board. Unpaginated. Chronological compilation of the top ten singles in the "Rhythm and Blues (Soul)" Billboard charts from 1948-1985.
San Francisco: Trystero Company, 1968. Folded tabloid newsprint in self wrap, 20 pages. Counterculture newspaper with centerfold story on billiards legends, Minnesota Fats; reportage on the Huey P. Newton Trial; Anti-War sentiments; an interview with Black Panther Party Deputy Minister of Defense a couple weeks after Eldridge Cleanver's speech at.....
![Item #2971 Obsidian : Black Literature in Review [6 issues]. Ed Alvin Aubert](https://betterreadthandeadbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2971.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729288183)
Detroit: Alvin Aubert, 1975-78, 1982. Perfect-bound octavos (5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches) in illustrated wrappers, 98 pp. (Volume 1, Number 2); 90 pp. (Volume 2, Number 2); 125 pp. (Volume 2, Number 3); 105 pp. (Volume 3, Number 3); 122 pp. (Volume 4, Number 1); 198 pp. (Volume 8, Numbers 2.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Hardcover, octavo, slate boards with silver lettering in illustrated dust jacket, 235 pp.
London: Allison & Busby, 1984. Jacket design by Mick Keates; Photograph by Snowdon. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 303 pp.
Trinidad: P.N.M. Publishing Co., 1960. Signature-bound octavo (5 x 9 inches) in printed wraps, 115 pp.
Washington, D.C. The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1925. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (6 x 9 inches) in printed dust jacket. Dark green cloth with titles stamped in gilt to top board and spine. 711pp. Scarce First Edition of this compendium of orations by African-Americans, compiled by historian and author Carter G......
[Georgetown]: National History and Arts Council of Guyana (NHAC), August 1973. Saddle-stapled octavo (5-5/8 x 8-7/8 inches) in lithographic wraps, 115 pp. The literary and arts journal from the official organ of NHAC documenting the lectures given at the inaugural festival of Caribbean artists, writers, painters, sculptors, dancers and dramatists.....
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. Jacket photograph courtesy of Western Reserve Historical Society and jacket design by Rob Ehle. Hardcover quarto, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 596 pp. Chesnutt speeches and essays from 1881 to 1928 edited by Joseph R. McElrath Jr.; Robert C......
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, gray cloth boards, gilt spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, 95 pp. Front free endpaper inscription to novelist Frank Hercules, Trinidad-born novelist who relocated to Harlem in the 1940s. I've Served My Time in Hell is Dingle's memoir of time.....
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1959. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], beige cloth boards, black spine titles and cover decoration, pictorial dust jacket, 216 pp. Guyanese-born, British-American, novelist, E.R. Brathwaite's first novel, later adapted to the screen in a 1967 film starring Sidney Poitier.
East St. Louis, Illinois: Black River Writers, 1972. Cover design by Oliver Jackson. Third Printing, March 1972. Softcover octavo, staple-bound in heavy yellow paper card stock wrappers with red and brown lettering and decoration, 32 pp, Early collection of poems by this Black Arts Movement collaborator and close friend and.....
Jackson, MI: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. Hardcover. Book is in very good condition, tight square binding, corners lightly pushed, tail of spine lightly bumped, clean and unmarked within. Jacket is in very good condition, tail of jacket spine bumped, light shelving and handling wear. Overall, Very Good. 4to -.....
Richmond, British Columbia: LSM Press, 1974. Saddle-stapled octavo in illustrated card wraps. 26pp. Interview with ZAPU (Zimbabwe African Peoples Union) Publicity and Information Secretary George Silundika (1929-1981) by Ole Gjerstad.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Hardcover octavo in illustrated boards. xii, 243pp.
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1967. Jacket by Roy Schlemme. First Edition. Hardcover octavo in printed dust jacket. Black cloth with titles stamped to spine in gilt. Red end papers. 594pp. First Edition, first printing, of this simultaneously celebrated and controversial polemic assessing the struggle of black activists, artists.....
New York: The Free Press, 1969. Cover design by Sam Salant. First printing. Hardcover, octavo, quarterbound beige cloth spine and red boards, black and red spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, black endpapers, 202 pp.
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976. Hardcover, [octavo], brown cloth wraps, gilt spine and cover titles, black endpapers, pictorial dust jacket, 419 pp. xxii.
![Item #3503 Negro Workaday Songs [signed]. Howard W. Odum, Guy B. Johnson](https://betterreadthandeadbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3503.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739712757)
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover octavo (6-1/4 x 9 inches). Black cloth with titles stamped in gilt to top board and spine. Inscribed by Odum to front free endpaper. xii, 278pp. First Edition of this early work on African-American musicology from American sociologist Howard.....
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. Designed by C.H. Westmoreland. Second Printing. Signature-bound, [octavo], pictorial wraps, 442 pp.
New York: Random House, 1965. Photo by Edward Hollander; jacket design by S. Neil Fujita. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound navy cloth spine and blue boards, gilt spine titles, gilt and blue cover decoration, red top stain, pictorial dust jacket, 197 pp.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 568 pp.
New York: Shamal Books, 1986. Perfect-bound, 5 3/8" x 8 1/8", in glossy pictorial wraps, 221 pp. The memoir of James Yates published in 1986 by Shamal Books. Yates was born to sharecroppers in Quitman, MS in 1906 and left for Chicago at the age of 16 where his interest.....
New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1987. Hardcover octavo in dust jacket. Gray paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, titles in gilt to spine. xv, 409pp.
![Item #2890 Black World [19 Issues]. John H. Johnson](https://betterreadthandeadbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2890.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1727999834)
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, December 1971 - July 1974. Signature-bound octavo (5-3/8 x 7-5/8 inches) in photo-illustrated wraps, 98 pp. Grouping of 19 Issues of John H. Johnson's Black World magazine. Issues included: February 1971: Vol. XX, No. 4 December 1971: Vol. XXI, No. 2. A conversation with Dudley.....