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	ADOFF, ARNOLD (EDITOR). I am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Negro Americans. New York: Macmillan 1968. 1st Printing, so stated. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 128 pages. Indexes, capsule biographies, notes. Description: Includes a few b&w illustrations by Benny Andrews. Foreword by Charlemae Rollins. Includes poems by Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many others. BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; reinforced binding; a Very Good+ book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0007I2U6M USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 838] Book number: 054018 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	BAKER, T LINDSAY AND JULIE P BAKER (EDITORS). The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press 1996. 2nd Printing. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 543 pages. Bibliography, index. Description: Includes a few b&w illustrations. These interviews were made in the late 1930s in Oklahoma. Although many African Americans had relocated there after emancipation in 1865, some interviewees had been slaves of Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, or Creeks in the Indian Territory. These narratives constitute important primary sources on the food ways, agricultural practices, and home life of Oklahoma Indians. This volume collects all the known ''slave narratives'' from Oklahoma, and includes fourteen never before published. 9.25 inches tall, 543 pages, bibliography, index. BINDING/CONDITION: black binding, faux leather with blue spine text; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-8061-2792-9 USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 054947 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	MALCOLM X; EDITED WITH PREFATORY NOTES BY GEORGE BREITMAN. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements. New York: Pathfinder Press December, 1990. 2nd Edition, 2nd Printing. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 233 pages. Index. red endpapers. Description: Includes a section of b&w plates. Fourteen speeches and statements. This was originally published in 1965 (''first cloth edition''); the second edition was published in 1989; this copy is a 1990 second printing of the second edition. Edited with prefatory notes by George Breitman. From the foreword by Mr Breitman: ''The aim of this book is to present, in his own words, the major ideas Malcolm X expounded and defended during his last year. This is a selection of speeches by Malcolm; all of them were made during the last year of his life (except for the first selection, made shortly before his departure from the Black Muslim movement). It represents only a small portion of the speeches and interviews he gave during that period and does not attempt to deal with Malcolm's assassination.'' BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; one page has been wrinkled, otherwise a Good+ book; the spine is slightly slanted, light rubbing at the spine ends, the text edges are clean, the hinges sound, no markings; the dust jacket is faded at the spine, otherwise Very Good. ISBN: 0-87348-546-7 USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 055563 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	HAIZLIP, SHIRLEE TAYLOR. Sweeter the Juice. New York: Simon & Schuster 1994. 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 271 pages. Bibliography. red endpapers. Description: This copy is Inscribed and Signed by the author. Includes a family tree. This copy has a laid-in publicity sheet (for this book). BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; the bottom spine is bumped, the top edge of the text block is very faintly stained, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-671-79235-0 USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 054726 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	WIDEMAN, JOHN EDGAR (EDITOR). My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African American Literature. Philadelphia: Running Press 2001. 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 9 inches tall) 1270 pages. Description: An anthology of literature by African-Americans from Colonial days to the end of the nineteenth century. Authors are: Richard Allen, Phillis Wheatley, Jarena Lee, Olaudah Equiano, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Nat Love, Booker T Washington, Ida B Wells, W E B DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. BINDING/CONDITION: black boards; a Very Good+ book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-7624-1035-3 USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 \| £UK 8.75 \| JP¥ 1280] Book number: 056602 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.

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	ADOFF, ARNOLD (EDITOR). I am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by Negro Americans. New York: Macmillan 1968. 1st Printing, so stated. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 128 pages. Indexes, capsule biographies, notes. Description: Includes a few b&w illustrations by Benny Andrews. Foreword by Charlemae Rollins. Includes poems by Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many others. BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; reinforced binding; a Very Good+ book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: B0007I2U6M USD 9.50 [Appr.: EURO 6.5 \| £UK 5.75 \| JP¥ 838] Book number: 054018 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	BAKER, T LINDSAY AND JULIE P BAKER (EDITORS). The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press 1996. 2nd Printing. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 543 pages. Bibliography, index. Description: Includes a few b&w illustrations. These interviews were made in the late 1930s in Oklahoma. Although many African Americans had relocated there after emancipation in 1865, some interviewees had been slaves of Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, or Creeks in the Indian Territory. These narratives constitute important primary sources on the food ways, agricultural practices, and home life of Oklahoma Indians. This volume collects all the known ''slave narratives'' from Oklahoma, and includes fourteen never before published. 9.25 inches tall, 543 pages, bibliography, index. BINDING/CONDITION: black binding, faux leather with blue spine text; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-8061-2792-9 USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 30.25 \| £UK 27.25 \| JP¥ 3972] Book number: 054947 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	MALCOLM X; EDITED WITH PREFATORY NOTES BY GEORGE BREITMAN. Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements. New York: Pathfinder Press December, 1990. 2nd Edition, 2nd Printing. Hardbound 8vo (8.5 inches tall) 233 pages. Index. red endpapers. Description: Includes a section of b&w plates. Fourteen speeches and statements. This was originally published in 1965 (''first cloth edition''); the second edition was published in 1989; this copy is a 1990 second printing of the second edition. Edited with prefatory notes by George Breitman. From the foreword by Mr Breitman: ''The aim of this book is to present, in his own words, the major ideas Malcolm X expounded and defended during his last year. This is a selection of speeches by Malcolm; all of them were made during the last year of his life (except for the first selection, made shortly before his departure from the Black Muslim movement). It represents only a small portion of the speeches and interviews he gave during that period and does not attempt to deal with Malcolm's assassination.'' BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards; one page has been wrinkled, otherwise a Good+ book; the spine is slightly slanted, light rubbing at the spine ends, the text edges are clean, the hinges sound, no markings; the dust jacket is faded at the spine, otherwise Very Good. ISBN: 0-87348-546-7 USD 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 \| £UK 6.25 \| JP¥ 883] Book number: 055563 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	HAIZLIP, SHIRLEE TAYLOR. Sweeter the Juice. New York: Simon & Schuster 1994. 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall) 271 pages. Bibliography. red endpapers. Description: This copy is Inscribed and Signed by the author. Includes a family tree. This copy has a laid-in publicity sheet (for this book). BINDING/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; the bottom spine is bumped, the top edge of the text block is very faintly stained, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-671-79235-0 USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 054726 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.
	WIDEMAN, JOHN EDGAR (EDITOR). My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African American Literature. Philadelphia: Running Press 2001. 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (about 9 inches tall) 1270 pages. Description: An anthology of literature by African-Americans from Colonial days to the end of the nineteenth century. Authors are: Richard Allen, Phillis Wheatley, Jarena Lee, Olaudah Equiano, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Nat Love, Booker T Washington, Ida B Wells, W E B DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. BINDING/CONDITION: black boards; a Very Good+ book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. ISBN: 0-7624-1035-3 USD 14.50 [Appr.: EURO 9.75 \| £UK 8.75 \| JP¥ 1280] Book number: 056602 Click here to order or inquire at The Bookworm.