Book Description: Bantam Books, New York, 1972. Paperback. Book Condition: Good. Sixth Printing. 12 mo - 246 Pages. Endorsed by Jesse Jackson: "My grandmother, who was a slave in Kentucky, told me of things that happened to her as they happened to Miss Pittman. The truth rings truly throughout this book. Ernest Gaines is just about the greatest." Overview: "Miss Jane Pittman’s American journey spanned over one hundred years, from the 1860s to the 1960s, and took her from picking cotton on a Louisiana plantation to taking part in dismantling the walls of segregation in her southern town. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is her story, told in her own words (although the narrator is putatively a high school teacher who comes to interview her for a school project but soon fades to the background). In Miss Jane, Ernest Galnes created one of the most memorable women in all of American literature. Although she witnessed first hand the wrenching transition of a people from slavery to freedom, Gaines makes her more than a vehicle for that epic story. Miss Jane is a fully realized, three-dimensional character with her own loves and hates, strengths and weaknesses, which makes her observations on the incredible events around her all the more authentic and compelling. Gaines’s skill in giving her a distinct and memorable voice with which to tell her story amplifies the humanity of Miss Jane.". Privately Owned. Bookseller Inventory # 0064400232
Book Description: Avon Books, New York, 1975. Paperback. Book Condition: Fair. First Avon Printing. Good overall condition - light surface wear & one slightly loosened inside front page, at a lower corner, yet does not appear to ever have been read; Winner of the National Book Award, by Theodore Rosengarten; First Avon Printing, 1975; Ships out within 24 hrs with delivery & e-mail confirmations; An American Autobiography - Nate Shaw is the fictitious name of Ned Cobb; "In this remarkable book, a black Alabama sharecropper pours out his story.an eighty-eight-year saga of courage, integrity, and unquenchable pride, waged against the forces of nature, which would ruin his crops--and the wrath of the white man, resentful of a black man who carved a proud life for himself and his family with his two hands, beholden to no one.eloquent and revelatory.the reader is astonished.". Bookseller Inventory # 8269
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Book Description: U.K / The Womens Press, 1998. Soft cover. Book Condition: New. No Jacket. This was winner of the 1983 Pultizer Prize for Fiction. A paperback copy in new condition. (245 pages). Bookseller Inventory # 999
Book Description: Board of Education, New York, 1964. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Curriculum Bulletin No. 4 from 1964-65 series produced by the Board of Education of the City of New York. Includes history of blacks in the U.S. right up to the early 1960's and everything in between. Measures 5.5" x 8.5" with 158 pages. Edges slightly brown due to age. Paperback. Bookseller Inventory # E1608
Book Description: American Oil Company, Chicago, IL. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Stapled booklet measuring 5.5" x 8.5" with 58+ pages. Illustrated with drawings and b/w photographs. Important monuments and events in black history are described by state. This is the third edition of a booklet originally published in 1963, Stapled Booklet. Bookseller Inventory # E1504
Book Description: New York: Collier, 1966, 1966. Paperback. Book Condition: Sehr gut. Paperback. 288 S sehr gut in english. Bookseller Inventory # 002540
Book Description: Signet Books, New York, 1971. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Biographies of 53 African Americans with portraits. Covers show minimal wear. Interior pages browning with age but unmarked. Bookseller Inventory # 000798
Book Description: Les Cahiers De l'Histoire., Paris, 1964. Broché-Souple carton.Illustré. Book Condition: Bon. Ed. originale. 150 x 230 x 8. 157 pages, illustrées de gravures et photos en frontispiece n&b. Couverture brochée éditeur, illustrée en n&b. Sommaire: La constitution américaine et les noirs. Les noirs dans l'économie coloniale. Une démocratie esclavagiste. Mouvement antiesclavagiste au XIXe siècle; rebellions, colonisation, abolition. Les noirs pendant la guerre de secession. La reconstruction. La période Jim Crow. Terre promise. De Franklin Roosevelt à Kennedy. La lutte pour l'intégration. Bookseller Inventory # 001415
Book Description: J. W. Burke Co., Macon, GA, 1928. Decorative Boards. Book Condition: Fair - Good. No Jacket. Not Stated. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The 1928 story of Eneas who leaves home in 1864 on his master's orders with the family silver and all the Confederate money he can carry, entrusted to his care. This book has board covers with green marbeling, one small strip torn away on back. Corners bumped and some rubbing and wear. A gift inscription is on the inside front cover. One sepia-toned portrait of Eneas as frontis piece, 4 black and white illustrations and a map detailing Eneas' travels through the South in middle of book. 47 pages, no tears, stains, or foxing.***Reduced mailing rates for buyers outside the U.S. ** "A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen is that you can take it to bed with you." - Daniel J. Boorstin. Hard Cover. Bookseller Inventory # 000140
Book Description: Rand McNally, New York, 1976. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. Coded First Edition. 8.00" (20 cm) Tall. Ex-lib markings on spine, title, and inside back cover. Clear library tape reinforces spine and cover edges. Exterior lightly soiled and scuffed. Interior bright with tight binding. 469 pp. Collected essays on race with emphasis on African-American and Native American history. Ex-Library. Bookseller Inventory # 260017
Book Description: Greenwood Publishing Corporation, Westport, CT, 1969. Soft Cover. Book Condition: As New. A guide intended to be a practical tool to help teachers develop and enrich the subject matter of a book of the same title, by suggesting additional materials, experiences, activities, etc. to allow students to become more aware of the contributions of black Americans. Includes specific sugggesitons on how to do this. In pristine condition, it measurs 5.25" x 8.25" with 18 pages. Stapled Booklet. Bookseller Inventory # E1506
Book Description: Abingdon, Nashville, 1971. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 7.75" (20 cm) Tall. Square with tight binding, clean and bright pages. Wraps have slight age-related darkening to spine, minor edge rubbing. 143 pp. Discussion of the value of infusing a Christian theology of hope into the black awareness movement of the early 1970s to give it additional meaning and validity. Bookseller Inventory # 0110042
Book Description: Simon & Schuster, 1991. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book and dust jacket condition is very good. Book tail spine edge is lightly bent. Else fine. Jacket has minor shelfwear. Else fine. One man's pursuit of love and knowledge among the Yanomama. Index. 349 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 003607
Book Description: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1927. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Attractive green cover, decorated with gilt lettering and discreet giraffes and fish. Cover is quitre bright, and only lightly scuffed at the tips of the spine and the cover. The contents are clean. The front and back endpapers are decorated with maps. Discreet previous owner's name and inscription. Foreword by John Galsworthy. Tenth printing, Oct. 1927. Bookseller Inventory # 6510
Book Description: Labor Publications, Incorporated, New York, 1970. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Number 1 in the 'Bulletin Pamphlet Series' on "The New Nationalism and the Negro Struggle". Measures 5.25" x 8.25" with 35 pages. Browning to edges due to age; tiny piece of one corner of front cover is missing, back cover soiled, some passages highlighted in ink in the margins. B/w photograph of 'radical blacks' (Black Panthers?) on cover. Stapled Booklet. Bookseller Inventory # E1429
Book Description: Doubleday & Co,, Garden City, New York, 1957. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good Reading Copy. Third Editon. 4" x 7" 466 Pgs. Front cover is detatched top and bottom of spine, has edge wear with small piece missing from top edge, otherwise sound and clean. First published in 1937, this is a reprinting of what the author, (John Dollard, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Yale University), saw in "Southerntown" USA in 1935-36. "The Anchor edition of this classic work of social psychology appears at a time when the recent Supreme Court decision has made it impossible to ignore the issue of racial segregation.". Bookseller Inventory # 64790
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Book Description: U.S / John Hopkins University Press, 1997. Soft cover. Book Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African-Americans, the author shows how - in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta - Jews came to see that their relative prosperity was no protection against the same social forces that threatened blacks. It thus became in the Jewish American self-interest to support the black struggle for racial justice and to fight against American prejudice. Jewish leaders and organisations genuinely believed in the cause of black civil rights, Diner suggests, but they also used that cause as a way of advancing their own interests without seeming 'pushy' or 'too demanding' - launching a vicarious attack on the nation that they felt had not lived up to its own pronouncements of freedom and equality. A 1st edition paperback, in as new condition. (271 pages & 16 pages of introduction). Bookseller Inventory # 2555
Book Description: Gallimard "Collection Témoins", Paris, 1968. Broché-Souple carton.Illustré. Book Condition: Usures D'usage. 1ere Édition Française. 140 x 205 x 18. 244 pages. Relié broché édition, couverture cart.souple, noire, illustrée en noir, titres en rose et vert. Sommaire: Le noir en tant que non-américain; quelques éléments de l'arrière-plan. Le noir en tant que propriété. Esclaves africains, esclaves américains; leur musique. Musique afro-chrétienne et religion. Esclavage et post-esclavage. Blues primitif et jazz primitif. Le blues classique. La ville. Entrée en scène de la classe moyenne. Swing -du verbe au substantif. Le continuum du blues. La scène moderne. Bookseller Inventory # 003408
Book Description: Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1973. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. 8.25" (21 cm) Oblong. Square, tight binding. Clean, slightly off-white text pages. Wraps have general handling wear. 293 pp. Scholarly study of the problem of race in American cities, and its relationship to lack of trust in political leadership. Bookseller Inventory # 0160059
Book Description: New York: Dell, 1970, 1970. Soft Cover. VG++/NO DUST JACKET. 1st Edition. A Laurel Original - Dell 7289. Contains writings by Malcolm X, Leroi Jones, Leonard Cohen, Russell Baker, Lennie Bruce, Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman et a l. BOOK: Spine faded, edgewear, creases. Scan on request. Bookseller Inventory # 005008
Book Description: Time-Life Books, Alexandria, VA, 1979. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Booklet measuring 9" x 9" with 48 pages, silver cover. Part of a series. This one covers the legendary Billie Holiday. Illustrated throughout with vintage b/w photographs from her life and career. Original liner notes from a set of records released by Time-Life Records with her music - includes commentary on the music. No marks of any kind, in excellent condition. Stapled Booklet. Bookseller Inventory # E1424
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