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	EASTON, WILLIAM EDGAR Christophe: A Tragedy in Prose of Imperial Haiti Los Angeles, Press Grafton Publishing Company. 1911, First Edition. Soft Cover. Ill.: John McCullough. First edition, in illustrated wrappers. Size: 12mo. Front cover pictorial includes Haitian flag. 122 pages, with 6 full-page illustrations, including frontis, by John McCullough. Also, frontis photos of Booker T. Washington, and Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, tragedienne. Plus, a full page photo portrait of James B. Clarke, with an article by him on Haitian history; illustrated with facsimiles of engravings of Haitian notables. And, a full-page photo portrait of Harriet Tubman (at 100+ years old), plus a full-page portrait of her in 1861, accompanying a rear section entitled "An Hour With Harriet Tubman". Covers are fairly bright, with creasing, scattered grease staining, and moderate edge-chipping. Small grease stains to the tops of first 2 pages. Good. Scarce. Good. USD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 331.75 \| £UK 301.75 \| JP¥ 42997] Book number: 31475 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	EDWARDS, HARRY STILLWELL Two Runaways and Other Stories New York, The Century Co. 1889. Hard Cover. Possibly inscribed by the author. Inscription on front free endpaper: "Compliments/ J.F. Paull 1899". (J.F. Paull was a prominent businessman in Wheeling, WV). Handwriting is very similar to another sample of Edwards'. Hardcover, no jacket. Elaborately blindstamped olive green cloth with gilt stamped spine titles. Size: octavo. 246 pages, with full page b&w illustrations, including frontis, by E.W. Kemble. Untrimmed fore and bottom edges. From the preface: "The elements dealt with in these stories are the brighter and better parts of the older negro character, and of some of the people whose lives touch or touched his". Solid book with fairly bright boards, light wear, and minor soiling. A touch of spine tanning, and a bit of rubbing to spine titles, which are still bright. Text has occasional minor soiling. Bookseller sticker (Stanton's Old City Book Store, Wheeling, W.Va.) on the front pastedown. VG. Very Good. Signed. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 35684 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	MILLER, WARREN The Cool World Boston, Little, Brown and Company. 1959. Hard Cover. VG+, in a VG+, mylar-protected dust jacket. 1959 third hardcover printing; size: octavo. 241 pages. Book has bright boards, scant wear, and a slight spine lean. Extra-bright, unclipped jacket has small color-chipping to spine and fold extremities. Light soiling to rear panel. Very Good/Very Good. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 36581 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	PAIEWONSKY, ISIDOR Eyewitness Accounts of Slavery in the Danish West Indies; also Graphic Tales of Other Happenings on Ships and Plantations New York, Fordham University Press. 1989. Hard Cover. SIGNED by the author on the title page; no other names. VG+, in a VG+, mylar-protected dust jacket. 1989 hardcover edition; size: slender 4to. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial endpapers. ix, (2), 166 pages, with many photographs and illustrations. Book has scant wear, a moderate spine lean, and a small ding on the bottom edge. Bright, unclipped jacket has very light edgewear. Included is a separate page of blurbs about the book, from Herman Wouk and others, and a flyer from the Fort Christian Museum, on St. Thomas. Very Good/Very Good. Signed. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 40480 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	PAYNE, LADELL Black Novelists and the Southern Literary Tradition Athens, GA. The University of Georgia Press. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0820305367) Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by the author; "To Warren & Nancy..". Fine, in a VG+, mylar-protected dust jacket. Hardcover first edition; size: octavo. 117 pages. Book is Fine. Bright jacket has scant edge-chipping. Fine/Very Good. Signed. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 27665 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	PICKENS, WILLIAM Bursting Bonds: The Heir of Slaves Boston, The Jordan & More Press. 1923. Hard Cover. 1923 3rd hardcover ptg.; no jacket. Size: small octavo. Brown cloth with black titles. Uncut fore & bottom edges. 222 pages. Frontis photo of author. Book has extra-bright boards, miniscule wear, and a moderate spine lean. Very Good/No Jacket. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2580] Book number: 31419a Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	PRESCOTT, RALPH PARISH JR. Life or Death: Vol. 1 Relentless Comics. 2001. (ISBN: 0961837810) Soft Cover. SIGNED by Ralph Parish Prescott Jr. at the bottom of the front cover. Prescott was the writer and illustrator of the book. Comic book, volume 1 only. Stapled softcover, size: 4to. 40 pages, with b&w illustrations. Harsh story of an inner city youth who gets sent to prison for armed robbery and murder. By the end of the book, he has found Christianity, just as he enters prison. Bright covers with light wear. Small, faint dampstain on upper corner of front cover. VG. Very Good. Signed. USD 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.25 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2365] Book number: 35625 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON THE LOS ANGELES RIOTS Violence in the City--an End or a Beginning ?: A Report By the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots Los Angeles, College Book Store. 1965. Soft Cover. Stapled softcover, size: octavo. 101 pages, plus 3 pages of photos. Rear pocket contains a folded map, showing damaged-burned or destroyed businesses, private buildings, and public buildings, during the Watts riot. Moderate soiling to front cover, more so on rear cover. Ink name & address on first & last pages. Map is like new. Good. Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 35217 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	SMITH, C.S. Glimpses of Africa: West and Southwest Coast, Containing the Author's Impressions and Observations During a Voyage of Six Thousand Miles from Sierra Leone to St. Paul de Loanda, and Return Nashville, Tenn. Publishing House of the A.M.E. Sunday-School Union. 1895, First Edition. Hard Cover. Hardcover first edition, no jacket. Size: small octavo. Navy blue cloth with gilt titles. 288 pages, illustrated with about 70 photographs and 3 maps. Solid book with a moderate spine lean and small fraying to corners. Scattered dampstaining on rear board (text not affected). 2 very small stains on fore-edge. Namestamp and small ink notation on the front pastedown. Small archival tape repair on page 6. Good. Good. USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 132.75 \| £UK 120.75 \| JP¥ 17199] Book number: 31473 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. Up From Slavery: An Autobiography New York, A.L. Burt Company. 1901. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed: "Cordially yours, E.D. Washington (son of Booker T. Washington) Tuskegee Inst. Ala. Aug. 24, 1937". No other names. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: 12mo. Red cloth with white stamped titles. 330 pages, plus publisher's ads. Solid book with moderate edgewear. Spine has some sunning, but titles are still fairly bright. A small slash on spine. Good to VG. Good. Signed. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3440] Book number: 35715 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.

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	EASTON, WILLIAM EDGAR Christophe: A Tragedy in Prose of Imperial Haiti Los Angeles, Press Grafton Publishing Company. 1911, First Edition. Soft Cover. Ill.: John McCullough. First edition, in illustrated wrappers. Size: 12mo. Front cover pictorial includes Haitian flag. 122 pages, with 6 full-page illustrations, including frontis, by John McCullough. Also, frontis photos of Booker T. Washington, and Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, tragedienne. Plus, a full page photo portrait of James B. Clarke, with an article by him on Haitian history; illustrated with facsimiles of engravings of Haitian notables. And, a full-page photo portrait of Harriet Tubman (at 100+ years old), plus a full-page portrait of her in 1861, accompanying a rear section entitled "An Hour With Harriet Tubman". Covers are fairly bright, with creasing, scattered grease staining, and moderate edge-chipping. Small grease stains to the tops of first 2 pages. Good. Scarce. Good. USD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 331.75 \| £UK 301.75 \| JP¥ 42997] Book number: 31475 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	EDWARDS, HARRY STILLWELL Two Runaways and Other Stories New York, The Century Co. 1889. Hard Cover. Possibly inscribed by the author. Inscription on front free endpaper: "Compliments/ J.F. Paull 1899". (J.F. Paull was a prominent businessman in Wheeling, WV). Handwriting is very similar to another sample of Edwards'. Hardcover, no jacket. Elaborately blindstamped olive green cloth with gilt stamped spine titles. Size: octavo. 246 pages, with full page b&w illustrations, including frontis, by E.W. Kemble. Untrimmed fore and bottom edges. From the preface: "The elements dealt with in these stories are the brighter and better parts of the older negro character, and of some of the people whose lives touch or touched his". Solid book with fairly bright boards, light wear, and minor soiling. A touch of spine tanning, and a bit of rubbing to spine titles, which are still bright. Text has occasional minor soiling. Bookseller sticker (Stanton's Old City Book Store, Wheeling, W.Va.) on the front pastedown. VG. Very Good. Signed. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 35684 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	MILLER, WARREN The Cool World Boston, Little, Brown and Company. 1959. Hard Cover. VG+, in a VG+, mylar-protected dust jacket. 1959 third hardcover printing; size: octavo. 241 pages. Book has bright boards, scant wear, and a slight spine lean. Extra-bright, unclipped jacket has small color-chipping to spine and fold extremities. Light soiling to rear panel. Very Good/Very Good. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 36581 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	PAIEWONSKY, ISIDOR Eyewitness Accounts of Slavery in the Danish West Indies; also Graphic Tales of Other Happenings on Ships and Plantations New York, Fordham University Press. 1989. Hard Cover. SIGNED by the author on the title page; no other names. VG+, in a VG+, mylar-protected dust jacket. 1989 hardcover edition; size: slender 4to. Brown cloth with gilt titles. Pictorial endpapers. ix, (2), 166 pages, with many photographs and illustrations. Book has scant wear, a moderate spine lean, and a small ding on the bottom edge. Bright, unclipped jacket has very light edgewear. Included is a separate page of blurbs about the book, from Herman Wouk and others, and a flyer from the Fort Christian Museum, on St. Thomas. Very Good/Very Good. Signed. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 40480 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	PAYNE, LADELL Black Novelists and the Southern Literary Tradition Athens, GA. The University of Georgia Press. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0820305367) Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by the author; "To Warren & Nancy..". Fine, in a VG+, mylar-protected dust jacket. Hardcover first edition; size: octavo. 117 pages. Book is Fine. Bright jacket has scant edge-chipping. Fine/Very Good. Signed. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 27665 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	PICKENS, WILLIAM Bursting Bonds: The Heir of Slaves Boston, The Jordan & More Press. 1923. Hard Cover. 1923 3rd hardcover ptg.; no jacket. Size: small octavo. Brown cloth with black titles. Uncut fore & bottom edges. 222 pages. Frontis photo of author. Book has extra-bright boards, miniscule wear, and a moderate spine lean. Very Good/No Jacket. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2580] Book number: 31419a Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	PRESCOTT, RALPH PARISH JR. Life or Death: Vol. 1 Relentless Comics. 2001. (ISBN: 0961837810) Soft Cover. SIGNED by Ralph Parish Prescott Jr. at the bottom of the front cover. Prescott was the writer and illustrator of the book. Comic book, volume 1 only. Stapled softcover, size: 4to. 40 pages, with b&w illustrations. Harsh story of an inner city youth who gets sent to prison for armed robbery and murder. By the end of the book, he has found Christianity, just as he enters prison. Bright covers with light wear. Small, faint dampstain on upper corner of front cover. VG. Very Good. Signed. USD 27.50 [Appr.: EURO 18.25 \| £UK 16.75 \| JP¥ 2365] Book number: 35625 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	GOVERNOR'S COMMISSION ON THE LOS ANGELES RIOTS Violence in the City--an End or a Beginning ?: A Report By the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots Los Angeles, College Book Store. 1965. Soft Cover. Stapled softcover, size: octavo. 101 pages, plus 3 pages of photos. Rear pocket contains a folded map, showing damaged-burned or destroyed businesses, private buildings, and public buildings, during the Watts riot. Moderate soiling to front cover, more so on rear cover. Ink name & address on first & last pages. Map is like new. Good. Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 35217 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	SMITH, C.S. Glimpses of Africa: West and Southwest Coast, Containing the Author's Impressions and Observations During a Voyage of Six Thousand Miles from Sierra Leone to St. Paul de Loanda, and Return Nashville, Tenn. Publishing House of the A.M.E. Sunday-School Union. 1895, First Edition. Hard Cover. Hardcover first edition, no jacket. Size: small octavo. Navy blue cloth with gilt titles. 288 pages, illustrated with about 70 photographs and 3 maps. Solid book with a moderate spine lean and small fraying to corners. Scattered dampstaining on rear board (text not affected). 2 very small stains on fore-edge. Namestamp and small ink notation on the front pastedown. Small archival tape repair on page 6. Good. Good. USD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 132.75 \| £UK 120.75 \| JP¥ 17199] Book number: 31473 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.
	WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. Up From Slavery: An Autobiography New York, A.L. Burt Company. 1901. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed: "Cordially yours, E.D. Washington (son of Booker T. Washington) Tuskegee Inst. Ala. Aug. 24, 1937". No other names. Hardcover, no jacket. Size: 12mo. Red cloth with white stamped titles. 330 pages, plus publisher's ads. Solid book with moderate edgewear. Spine has some sunning, but titles are still fairly bright. A small slash on spine. Good to VG. Good. Signed. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3440] Book number: 35715 Click here to order or inquire at Baumgartner Books.