Colorado Springs: Focus on the Family Publishing, 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards, dust jacket. 254pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. A tight and handsome first edition of these "Lessons from the Firestorm" (to quote the front jacket panel), being the Los Angeles assistant police chief's account of the..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 340pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket wear, with lightly sunned spine and several archivally-mended (on verso) edge tears. A tight and attractive first edition, boldly signed by Wade in blue ballpoint on front..... More
Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, [1992]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xxvi, 164pp. Near fine. A tight and handsome second softbound printing. More
Detroit: Freedmen's Progress Commission, 1915. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original blue cloth. 371pp. Illustrations, tables. Good plus. Binding rather edgeworn, with a bit of fraying at head and tail; Front hinge and front flyleaf delicate (but archivally strengthened), and flyleaf and title page show old archival repair. Fairly tight and decent..... More
New York: Harper & Row, [1972]. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth. ix, 162pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Nonauthorial gift inscription on half-title page; abrasion from bookplate removal on rear flyleaf. Tight, nice second printing of this memoir by the African-American actress and blues and jazz singer (1896-1977) -- her inscription and signature..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth spine and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 489pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild bit of jacket edgewear. Replacement pp. 471-72 laid in by publisher. A tight and nice first edition of this memoir by the first black..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 367pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A tight and lovely first edition, signed boldly in black ballpoint by Wedin on the title page. More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth, price-clipped dust jacket. 212pp. Very good/very good. First edition, tight and decent -- a mild ex-library copy, with very few and mostly-removed markings. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 242pp. Fine. Advance reading copy, inscribed big and sloppy as usual by the author on the title page: "For Mawi / JE Wideman." More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine and green paper over boards, dust jacket. 199pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight and nice first edition, signed and inscribed huge, bold and sloppy by the author in black ballpoint on the title page: "For Sherrard /..... More
New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1970. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 220pp. Fine. A tight and handsome facsimile reprint of the 1914 first edition (Philadelphia: Walter H. Jenkins). The first edition is rather uncommon and even this facsimile seldom seen. MONAGHAN 2171. More
Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1963. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff blue wrappers. 18pp. Very good. Faintest of edgewear, with price sticker mark near bottom of front and rear wrapper. Tight and nice first edition of Wiley's address before the Chicago Historical Society of September 21, 1962. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. Paperback. Edited by D.R. Bensen. 8vo. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. xiii, 329pp. Near fine. First of this paperback edition. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 359pp. Very good/good. Jacket age toned and edgeworn, with some small edge chips and old tape mends at corners; ownership signature on front pastedown. Just the book club edition, but tight and attractive..... More
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1990]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xi, 227pp. Near fine. Tight, near pristine first softbound edition of this 1985 study. More
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and black paper over boards, dust jacket. x, 550pp. Illustrations, timetable endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition, inscribed huge and bold on the half-title page by the author: "To / Tom, / Keep Faith, / Andrew Young / Oct..... More
Malabar, FL: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, 1983. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 187pp. Very good. Rear wrapper (only) irregularly age toned, else internally near fine. Tight, attractive reprint of this 1971 study. More