Black Interest (15 results)

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing. Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket. The story of a little girl who finds a coin with possible mystical properties. Bold, unpolished folk art reproduced in color. Size: 4to.

Condition: Nearly Fine. Color illustration of little German or Dutch girl holding a black doll. "Please be my Valentine". Inscription on the back. See photo. Size: 3 1/2" x 2 3/4".

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE. (illustrator). Only Issue. Another interesting article, talking about the increase in both interest and prices for everything Blyton! A nice extra!

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS (illustrator). Only Issue. Splendid four full pages about our Favourite Five!!! An interesting article, well illustrated with pictures of some of the book wrappers. And, as the Author says, The Five Will Live Forever! Smashing!

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Harper Johnson (illustrator). First American Edition. (1962). Yellow pictorial cloth; illustrated dust jacket with long closed tear along spine edge, creasing to rear panel, spine slightly sunned. A story set in the Congo and deals with the conflicts between traditional ways of life and modernization. Translated into english by Marie Ponsot and illustrated in b&w by Harper Johnson. Size: 8vo.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 395 pages. John E Jacob "Black America, 1991: An Overview" / Billy J Tidwell "Serving the National Interest: A Marshall Plan for America" / Bernard C Watson "The Demographic Revolution: Diversity in 21st Century America" / David H Swinton "The Economic Status of African Americans: Limited Ownership and Persistent Inequality" / William A Darity, Jr and Samuel L Myers, Jr "Racial Earnings Inequality into the 21st Century" / Shirley M McBay "The Condition of African American Education: Changes and Challenges" / Robert D Bullard "Urban Infrastructure: Social, Environmental, and Health Risks to African Americans" / Dianne Pinderhughes "Power and Progress: African American Politics in the New Era of Diversity". (SL#51).

The rajah's yellow turban folds open to reveal red waffle paper. Printed in Germany. Card does not open, printed on one side only with an attached flap for standing the card up. Measures approximately 6 1/2" by 4 1/2". Black rajah holding a valentine on a platter. Please see photo.

The caption refers to the girl as a "little chocolate drop who luvs ya all da time". Card does not open, printed on one side only in black, tan and red. Measures 6" by 5". The candy is missing from the lollipop, but the wrapper and stick are present. A black girl sits inside a heart holding a lollipop.

Condition: Nearly Fine. A little black girl sits inside a heart holding a lollipop. The caption refers to her as a "a little chocolate drop". Printed on one side only. Pencil inscription on rear. The candy is missing from the lollipop but the wrapper and candy stick are present. See photo. Size: 6" x 5".

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 12 pp. boards , incl. covers, with the alphabet and drawings in color. Paper spine missing, edges rubbed, small damage back cover, age toning, spot. Firm and acceptable copy. 22 x 25 cm.

Condition: Very good condition. "Printed expressly for the Humoristic Publishing Co., Kansas City, Mo". French hand coloured illustrated picture sheet, a sort of graphic short story with illustrations and text below. 11 3/4 x 16".

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1910. First edition. Thin octavo green cloth lettered in gilt. A collection of 24 poems written in dialect. A near fine copy. Scarce.

Wraps. Condition: Very good condition. Stereotypical caricature of an African American in the first work by Abraham Lincoln's private secretary, John Hay. This occurs in the first of 2 poems, in which "Jim Bludso" sacrifices his life in order to save the passengers of a Mississippi river steam boat. The Jim Bludso poem, written in the dialect of Pike County, Illinois where Hay grew up, describes Bludso (a white man) as "no saint"; a man with 2 wives, who nevertheless gives his own life to save everyone else onboard when his Mississippi steamboat catches fire. Hay describes the steamboat tearing along, "with a nigger squat on her safety-valve". Two engraved illustrations depict the black crew member in stereotypically racist style, dressed in rags, with exaggerated features. The illustrations by Solomon Eytinge Jr. (1833 - 1905), American illustrator of journals and books, notably Dickens and Tennyson. The second poem describes the loss and miraculous recovery of a young pioneer child in a snow storm. These pioneering poems are written in similar dialect to the roughly contemporaneous poems by Bret Harte. Original orange printed paper wrappers, with advertisements for John Hay's "Pike County Ballads" on rear wrapper. 12mo, 23 pp, illustrations. Front wrapper slightly dusty lower corner, short split along spine and front wrapper. BAL 7739. OCLC: 14577460 records one copy at Brown.

Photograph. Condition: Very Good. Original Photograph. 4 1/8 X 6 1/2 Inches. Original ID'ed Circa 1884 Cabinet Card. Photograph annotated on the verso: "Gen Hudson - mammy peeking to see if OK & caught in picture - age about 8 to 10 mo's - b. Sept 20, 1883 Son of James A. & Julia A. Hudson." The card itself is stamped "R.D. Lenhart Photographer - 18 Vine St. - Macon, MO." A bit of research has been done to see if we could locate a General Hudson from Missouri. We haven't found much. That said, the true value of this photograph (in all senses of the term) is the appearance of the "mammy" in the background. She certainly looks happier than the Hudson baby! A very rare image. Corners a bit rounded and a few spots to surface of image.

Ephemera. Condition: Good + overall. A charmingly illustrated hand bill advertising flower seeds, the image of a black boy leaning out of a house window, teasing cats with a toy spider, and the house wall itself decorated with a poster for Reid's seeds, showing a group of cats teasing a chained dog, beneath a sign saying "Post No Bills.". 8 1/8 X 13" with 2 old folds, a little ruffled at the edges. Full color lithograph, a few small marginal tears mended archivally.