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A DEFENSE OF THE SOUTH AGAINST THE REPROACHES AND ENCROACHMENTS OF THE NORTH: in which slavery is shown to be an institution of God intended to form the basis of the best social state and the only safeguard to the permanence of a republican government
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 43724More details Price: USD $495.00 USD $445.50 -
A WHITE SCHOLAR AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY, 1945-1965: Essays and Relections
Edition: First printing
Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. Black cloth. pp x, 232, [6]. Narrow band of sunning to extreme lower edge of front cover, else fine in slightly used VG jacket. Meier taught in black colleges and was active in the civil rights movement.
Book ID: 41458More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
ART ON BLACK
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Women's Press, 2006. Glossy card covers. Fine copy. Jamaican-Canadian feminist dub poet, actor, and playwright. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53126More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
AT THE FULL AND CHANGE OF THE MOON: a novel
Edition: First printing
New York: Grove Press, 1999. Black boards. Fine in fine jacket, with label of a Canadian literary agency at front. Trinidadian-Canadian poet and novelist. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52736More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
BLACKFACE. Reflections on African-Americans and the Movies.
Edition: First printing
New York: HarperCollins (Harper Collins), 1994. Cloth & boards. (xvi), 224 pp. Remainder stripe to bottom page edges, else fine. White dust jacket lightly rubbed, dust soiled, else fine. African-American author.
Book ID: 10123More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
CANADA'S BLACK BATTALION, No. 2 Construction 1916-1920
Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Society for the Protection and Preservation of Black Culture in Nova Scotia, 1986. pp 143, illustrated, index. Ink owner name at front, VG+ clean and unworn copy otherwise. ; Octavo
Book ID: 47776More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
CHARACTER BUILDING.
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: William Briggs. (Sheets of June, 1902, first US edition with integral title leaf). Maroon vertically ribbed cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. pp [12], 291 + frontispiece with tissue guard. Light rubbing to spine tips and outer corners; else a fine copy, gilt bright, no owner names, hinges not cracked. A scarce issue of his third book.; Octavo.
Book ID: 41597More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
CHARACTER BUILDING.
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: William Briggs. (Sheets of June, 1902, first US edition with integral title leaf). Maroon vertically ribbed cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. pp [12], 291 + frontispiece with tissue guard. Mild rubbing to spine tips and lower edges of covers; Vancouver new bookstore ticket on rear pastedown; else a fine copy, gilt bright, no owner names, hinges not cracked. A scarce issue of his third book.; Octavo.
Book ID: 855More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
EUBIE BLAKE
Edition: First printing
New York: Schirmer, 1979. Brown cloth. pp (xviii), 214. Discography, filmology, and index at rear. Canadian review slip pasted in at front, else a VG copy. Price-clipped jacket has chips and rubbing at head of spine; good. Biography of the noted African-American song writer.
Book ID: 43738More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
HERE THEY ARE - AMOS 'N' ANDY. Foreword by Irvin S. Cobb
Edition: First Edition
New York: Richard R. Smith, 1931. Octavo, red cloth lettered in light blue. pp (2), vi, 174. Lacking the front free endpaper; front inner hinge repaired and browned; yellowing to page edges and lightly to endpapers; else a VG or better clean, tight and unworn copy. In the scarce yellow dust jacket, which has nicks and very small chips at ends of lightly darkened spine; light darkening to panels; slight rubbing to flap folds; VG otherwise, flap price intact, attractive. Jacket illustration by Gwyas Williams., frontispiece illustration by Margery Stocking. A first collection of comic dialogues from this once enormously popular radio show. Amos and Andy were black, but Correll and Gosden were white.
Book ID: 36167More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
John Anderson, Fugitive Slave
Edition: First Edition
No place [Kingston, Ontario]: Treasure Island Books, 1986. Blue boards. (188) pp, illustrated. Small narrow tan spot to fore edges (no penetration into text margins), else fine in jacket, no owner names. Story of a slave from Missouri escaped to Canada and the struggle to have him extradited.; Signed by Author 0969268505
Book ID: 24802More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
Luce ostinata / Tenacious light: a cura de Branko Gorjup e Francesca Valente ; disegni di Achille Perilli ; introduzione, Janice Kulyk Keefer ; traduzioni di Marco Fazzini, Sara Fruner et Francesca Valente
Edition: First Edition
Ravenna, Italy: Longo, 2007. White card covers with flaps. pp 207. Plates, some in colour.Text in Italian and English. Poetry. Fine copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52795More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
OSSUARIES
Edition: First printing
McClelland & Stewart, 2010. Card covers. A fine copy of this book of poetry. Brand was Toronto's Poet Laureate 2009-12. The present book won a Griffin Poetry Prize. The book is dedicated to Constance Rooke.; Octavo
Book ID: 53321More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
THE BLACKS IN CANADA: a history
Montreal / New Haven: McGill-Queen's University Press / Yale, 1972. Second printing (first was in 1971). Black cloth. (xxiv), 546, [4] pp. Maps in text, index. Faint label shadow on spine, small library rubber stamps to half-title and rear free endpaper, small soil spots to top page edges, small bump to one corner, else a VG clean, tight & unworn jacketless copy, no other library marks. The second edition of 1997 only added a new author preface. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 41963More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
THE GREAT BLACK NORTH: contemporary Afican Canadian poetry
Calgary: Frontenac House Poetry, 2014. Card covers. Little Free Library rubber stamp on first page and title page, else fine.; Octavo
Book ID: 53462More details Price: USD $10.95 USD $9.86 -
THE HISTORY OF THE COLOURED CANADIAN IN WINDSOR, ONTARIO, 1867-1967.
Edition: First printing
Windsor, ON: 1967. Inscribed by Author; Quarto, green boards. 211 pp. Numerous photos in text. Inscribed by the author in 1968. Mild cover sunning, light endpaper foxing, yellowing and dust soiling to page edges, a VG unworn copy otherwise. Black dust jacket is rubbed, somewhat worn, with chips and tears all along the top edge; just good. Uncommon book.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 11517More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
THE HISTORY OF THE COLOURED CANADIAN IN WINDSOR, ONTARIO. 1867-1967.
Windsor, ON: Author, 1969. 2nd printing (first was in 1967). Quarto, green boards. 211 pp. Photos on almost every page. Rubber stamp and ink gift inscription to front free endpaper; very nearly fine otherwise. Black dust jacket has slight rubbing, very small chips, one inch tear to front panel, light tanning showing to white spine lettering; VG otherwise.
Book ID: 11547More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
THE NEGRO PERSONALITY. A Rigorous Investigation of the Effects of Culture. Foreword by Silvan S. Tomkins.
Edition: First Edition
New York: Springer, 1958. Pale blue-grey cloth. (viii), 184 pp. Light tanning to page edges, spine, margins of covers; else fine. Pale grey price-clipped dust jacket is tanned to spine, margins of panels; a few short tears and shallow chips; VG otherwise. "Dr. Karon's book is the first to give a precise and vivid answer to the crucial question of the Negro problem in the United States - what it feels like to live as a member of a caste in an otherwise democratic society." - jacket flap. The research used the Tomkins-Horn Picture Arrangement Test (PAT).
Book ID: 12833More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE SLAVE IN CANADA
Edition: First Edition
Halifax: Nova Scotia Historical Society, 1899. Buff stiff printed card covers. pp (xii), 161. Index. Spine a bit darkened, with small chips to ends; old tape stains to inner margins of covers, with a skinned spot to top inner corner of front cover; joints and inner hinges neatly repaired with archival rice paper tape; covers a bit yellowed and lightly soiled, with corner chip to rear cover; lacking the front free endpaper; text paper a bit toned; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Watson's long article is contained on pp 1-161 of Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society for the Years 1896-98, Volume X. Sabin, 84422. The earliest book-length study of the subject? Very scarce. A copy made USD 390 at a Swann auction 30 March, 2017. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53668More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE. Edited by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. Ink owner name inside covers, VG otherwise.
Book ID: 41450More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00