Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The acclaimed encyclopedic survey of black musical creation that marked the countdown to the explosion of ragtime.Drawing on hard-to-access archival sources and song collections, the book is of crucial importance for understanding the roots of.....

New York: Venture Press Book/Simon and Schuster, 1947. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Interesting period historical fiction novel regarding race in the south involving the rape of a black woman.

New York: Harmony Books, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The first African American rock-and-roll star to reach a mass audience discloses details of his intimate life and tells the story of his imprisonment at the peak of his career for violation of the.....

New York: Literary Guild, (Harpers), 1931. Illustrations by J.J. Lankes. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. The story based on the Ballad of John Henry, the "steel-drivin' man"; based on the African-American folk hero. It was made into a Broadway play and later a musical featuring Paul Robeson in the title.....

New York: Praeger, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Conti and Stetson provide an admirable summation and instructive commentary. [ National Review].

Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Soft cover. Nella Larsen (1891-1964) is recognized as one of the most influential, and certainly one of the most enigmatic, writers of the Harlem Renaissance. With the instant success of her two novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), she became a......

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905. Illustrated with photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. One of the first influential Black poets in American literature and was internationally acclaimed for his dialectic verse. Dunbar’s literary body is regarded as an impressive representation of.....

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Marvin Dunn chronicles anti-black violence in Florida, a state that is perceived by the general public to have not been part of the Deep South, and to have possessed more benign race.....

Macon, GA: Press of the J.W. Burke Company, 1926. First Edition, First Printing. A companion piece to The Negro of the Old South."Life on a Florida plantation, as described in memoirs and a diary; the latter paints a vivid picture of social and economic conditions" Nevins II, p.189.The Pine Hill.....

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This memoir offers a candid account of jazz icon Billie Holiday's life, from her humble rough-and-tumble beginnings in Baltimore, where she ran errands in a brothel to hear music, to her rise in Harlem's club scene.....

Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. John W. E. Thomas, the first African American elected to the Illinois general assembly, held a prominent position as the leader of the state's African American community for nearly two decades. His impactful contributions paved the way.....

New York: Free Press, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. This elegantly written, solidly researched, articulate history is well suited for students who want to understand the tragedy of America's racial past. In the World War II European Theater, 55 of the 70 American servicemen executed for.....

Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. The Highwaymen, also referred to as the Florida Highwaymen, are a group of 26 African American landscape artists in Florida. Self-taught and Self-Mentoring, they created a body of work of over 200,000 paintings, despite facing.....