Bronze Booklet (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 15pp, well-illustrated, soft cover, slightly smaller than A4 (7.25 x 9.5 inches), stapled pictorial paper cover, creased pages o/w good condition, British Oxygen Gases Limited, 1956. ILLUSTRATED (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. undated, appears circa 1950, 16 pages stapled booklet, illus. b&w | clean, sound copy shows light general wear; staples have rusted but remain functional | professional booksellers based in the UK | we package with great care and usually dispatch within 24hrs, always within two working days | please request scans or further information on any of our listings, which are all in stock and ready to be dispatched. …

Paperback. Condition: nrVG. About 220 x 145 mm. Stapled booklet. Card covers. About 12 pages. 6d. In very good, clean, tight condition BUT covers a bit browned and staples rusted.

Paperback. Condition: New.

paperback. Condition: New. Paperback; hv.

8vo. [4], 78, [4] pp (including 1 large folding table). Decorated tan softcovers, Art Deco designs on front cover, lettering in black, gilt & red (minor scuffing lower fore-edge front cover, slight tear to outer fore-edge), still a VG copy. First edition of this 5th installment in the storied "Bronze Booklet" series, which quickly became a standard reference for teaching African-American history in the United States and Europe, and addressed a number of racial conflicts and issues surrounding the aftermath of slavery, Reconstruction, the Great Migration, and the African-American worker. This important groundbreaking work details the intolerable conditions under which African-American workers, had labored, as well as tracing their role in the economic development of the United States. Hill (1888-1947) was an early leader of the National Urban League, operated an emergency center in the aftermath of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot, and spearheaded the creation of Emergency Advisory Councils to inform African-Americans of their legal rights during the Great Depression.…

8vo. [6], 98 pp. Decorated tan softcovers, Art Deco designs on front cover, lettering in black, gilt & red (minor scuffing lower fore-edge front cover), still a VG copy. First edition of this 4th installment in the storied "Bronze Booklet" series, which quickly became a standard reference for teaching African-American history in the United States and Europe, and addressed a number of racial conflicts and issues surrounding the impact of race on political and economic history. This important groundbreaking work by Bunche not only represented his most extended analysis of the issues of racism, but also the role of race and racism in World economic and political conflicts, Imperialism and inherent racism, as well as the fact that race "has been used to whitewash some of the blackest pages in American history." Bunche (1904-1971) was a leading African-American intellectual, diplomat, supporter of the US Civil Rights movement, and would later be awarded the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize, the first African=American so honored.…

8vo. [8], 209, [3] pp. Decorated tan softcovers, Art Deco designs on front cover, lettering in black, gilt & red (minor dustoiling, edgewear, scuffing & minor predation chipping to lower right corner, first couple leaves), still G copy. First edition of this 6th installment in the storied "Bronze Booklet" series, which quickly became a standard reference for teaching African-American history in the United States and Europe, and the first to address the appearance of Blacks in fiction, and racial stereotypes. Brown critically examines not only the earliest appearances of African-Americans in the works of James Fenimore Cooper and Melville, but also the obscene pro-slavery fiction of the antebellum South, antislavery fiction, the creation and diminishment of the role of slaves and racism in Reconstruction by American authors. He also critically examines many of the emerging "Realism" American authors and their fiction in the 1920's and 1930's, including Julia Peterkin, DuBose Heyward, Carl Van Vechten, Claude McKay, W.E.B. DuBois, Jessie Fausset, and many others. Brown (1901-1989) was one of the lesser-known heroes of the Harlem Renaissance, an important ethnographer, and one of very few scholars to treat Negro spirituals and other forms of Black music as valid art forms.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1992 India Cultural Relics Publishing House the hardcover Chinese Bronze Mirrors books about a thick booklet full.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author at the head of the foreword, "For Brainerd Institute Library, Thru Will Marion Cook, Alain Locke, 1938". The institute was formed in 1868 as a preparatory school for African-American children. Cook, whom Locke praises as the pioneer of symphonic jazz on page 65, helped develop its musical programmes in the 1930s. Considered the philosophical architect of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke was the "most influential African-American intellectual born between W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr" (Harris & Molesworth, p. 1). He was the first African-American to win a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford and held a leading place in the New Negro movement. Locke describes Cook as a "genius", not least for the symphonic sound of his American Syncopated Orchestra. The two men corresponded about Cook's compositions, as Cook "clearly valued Locke's musical knowledge", and Locke helped Cook write his memoirs in the 1930s (Harris & Molesworth, p. 109). "Trained in a German conservatory, Cook had studied with Dvorak and was intent on using racial material in a way that incorporated classical aesthetics" (Carter, p. 313). His many accomplishments included the 1898 production Clorindy, a forerunner of the Broadway musical, and the founding of the Southern Syncopated Orchestra. In 1919, he brought jazz to Britain and Europe. This copy, uniting two leading figures in African-American music and culture, is from the library of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, whose wide-ranging collecting interests included the history of jazz. His posthumous bookplate is on the title page verso. Marva Griffin Carter, Swing Along: The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook, 2008; Leonard Harris & Charles Molesworth, Alain L. Locke: Biography of a Philosopher, 2008. Octavo. Original orange-brown decorative wrappers, wire-stitched as issued. Ink stamps of recipient library on front cover and title page. A little wear to wrappers, top edge toned and spotted: near-fine.…

First edition, by the "most influential African-American intellectual born between W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr" (Harris & Molesworth, p. 1). Locke is considered the philosophical architect of the Harlem Renaissance, and for over half a century, this work was the only monograph on its music. The first African-American to win a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, Locke founded the department of philosophy at Howard University after receiving his PhD and held a leading place in the New Negro movement. In 1936, he "began work on a book series, the Bronze Booklets on the History, Problems, and Cultural Contributions of the Negro, under the auspices of the Associates in Negro Folk Education. Eight booklets were published in the series, which became a standard reference for the teaching of African-American history" (ANB). This copy is from the library of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, whose wide-ranging collecting interests included the history of music. His posthumous bookplate is on the title page verso. Marva Griffin Carter, Swing Along: The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook, 2008; Leonard Harris & Charles Molesworth, Alain L. Locke: Biography of a Philosopher, 2008. Octavo. Original orange-brown decorative wrappers, wire-stitched as issued. Wrappers lightly rubbed and creased, a few small tidemarks internally: near-fine.…

First edition. First edition. Signed by Alain Locke on the foreword, dated 1937. [vi], 122 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wrappers. Very Good, wraps a little stained and toned, light foxing along edges, wear at foot.Called the "philosophical architect" and "ideological genius" of the Harlem Renaissance, in this booklet Howard University professor Alain Locke traces the history of art by and about African Americans. Signed.…