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African-American Studies

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	ANDERSON, JERVIS This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait, 1900-1950 Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983. Paperback. Some ink underlining and marginalia. Binding square and solid. An affordable reference/student copy. Good . USD 6.95 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 598] Book number: 014308 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	ANDERSON, JERVIS This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait, 1900-1950 [Signed, First Edition] Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. First edition. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by author. "For Ivie, Who lived the better part of the history in this Book. --Jervis Anderson, 5/82" with invitation to NYPL reading layed-in. Book clean and square. Some dust discoloration to top of text block. Jacket in new Brodart protector. Very Good/Very Good. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.25 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5590] Book number: 002049 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	CULLEN, COUNTEE Black Christ and Other Poems, the [Signed, First Edition] London / New York, Putnam, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by author in the year of publication. Presentation copy. Humorous inscription reads "Here, greedy! --Countee, Paris November 16, 1929". Laid in is a business card "with the compliments of the author, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York". The card and the flyleaf/signature page are stamped with a private library ink-stamp. Book is beautiful with patterned red boards and a black spine with gilt lettering. Moderate bumping to corners and two short (nonstructural) splits to the head of spine. Unfortunately the publishers card was held in with a paperclip so the 1st few pages show corresponding rust markings and impressions. There is also a very small chip from the front end-paper that was lost to the paperclip. The jacket is moderately/heavily chipped at corners and tanned but not missing any crucial material. The spine and edges are heavily darkened but legible. Paperclip mark is also on front flap. Good/Acceptable. USD 650.00 [Appr.: EURO 431 \| £UK 392.25 \| JP¥ 55896] Book number: 001728 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	DODSON, OWEN Powerful Long Ladder [Signed, First Edition] New York, NY, Farrar, Strauss and Co. 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by author. "For Ivie, with love, admiration, and good things always. --Love, Owen" (With close-eyed smiley-face drawn in the "O"). Book Very Good with only light bumping and age-tanning. Jacket poor missing top third of jacket spine. Cover image and lettering complete. Fine/Poor. USD 320.00 [Appr.: EURO 212.25 \| £UK 193.25 \| JP¥ 27518] Book number: 002043 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	FAIRCLOUGH, ADAM Race & Democracy: The CIVIL Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. Univ of Georgia Pr, 1995. Hard Cover. ink underlining throughout. Short nicks to dust jacket Square and solid. An affordable reference/student copy. Fair/Good. USD 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 11 \| £UK 10 \| JP¥ 1419] Book number: 011530 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	HUGHES, LANGSTON Simple Stakes a Claim New York, NY, Rinehart, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition, First Printing. (Large R in circle on back of title page). Book is VG with only light bumping and the normal tanning to pages (Book was printed on low grade paper). DJ is Good. Still bright green with no sun fading but it is moderately rubbed and chipped. Jacket in new Brodart protector. Very Good/Good. USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 83 \| £UK 75.5 \| JP¥ 10749] Book number: 001499 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	ED. ESTHER JACKSON Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement. Vol. 14, No. 3, 1974 New York, Freedomways Associates, 1974. Soft Cover. Original cover image by Romare Bearden. Fine condition with some reading-wear. Pages supple, binding solid. Ill.: Romare Bearden (cover). Fine . USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 000706 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	KAISER, ERNEST Freedomways Reader: Afro-America in the Seventies [Signed] International Publishers, 1977. Soft Cover. Signed by editor. Heavy reading-wear (but solid). Back cover shows vertical crease and bottom corner torn away. Several pages dog-earred. Acceptable . USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 001964 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	MINTON, JOHN Big 'Fraid and Little 'Fraid: An Afro-American Folktale Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1993. Soft Cover. Very Fine condition. Very light reading-wear. Interior Clean, square and unmarked. Very Fine . USD 18.50 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 \| £UK 11.25 \| JP¥ 1591] Book number: 005153 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	WEBB, SHEYANN; NELSON, RACHEL WEST Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the CIVIL-Rights Days [Signed] Univ of Alabama Pr, 1997. Paperback. 146 pp. SIGNED and inscribed by author (Webb). Light reading-wear. Clean, square and unmarked. . Very Good . USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 645] Book number: 012509 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.

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	ANDERSON, JERVIS This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait, 1900-1950 Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983. Paperback. Some ink underlining and marginalia. Binding square and solid. An affordable reference/student copy. Good . USD 6.95 [Appr.: EURO 4.75 \| £UK 4.25 \| JP¥ 598] Book number: 014308 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	ANDERSON, JERVIS This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait, 1900-1950 [Signed, First Edition] Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. First edition. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by author. "For Ivie, Who lived the better part of the history in this Book. --Jervis Anderson, 5/82" with invitation to NYPL reading layed-in. Book clean and square. Some dust discoloration to top of text block. Jacket in new Brodart protector. Very Good/Very Good. USD 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 43.25 \| £UK 39.25 \| JP¥ 5590] Book number: 002049 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	CULLEN, COUNTEE Black Christ and Other Poems, the [Signed, First Edition] London / New York, Putnam, 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by author in the year of publication. Presentation copy. Humorous inscription reads "Here, greedy! --Countee, Paris November 16, 1929". Laid in is a business card "with the compliments of the author, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York". The card and the flyleaf/signature page are stamped with a private library ink-stamp. Book is beautiful with patterned red boards and a black spine with gilt lettering. Moderate bumping to corners and two short (nonstructural) splits to the head of spine. Unfortunately the publishers card was held in with a paperclip so the 1st few pages show corresponding rust markings and impressions. There is also a very small chip from the front end-paper that was lost to the paperclip. The jacket is moderately/heavily chipped at corners and tanned but not missing any crucial material. The spine and edges are heavily darkened but legible. Paperclip mark is also on front flap. Good/Acceptable. USD 650.00 [Appr.: EURO 431 \| £UK 392.25 \| JP¥ 55896] Book number: 001728 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	DODSON, OWEN Powerful Long Ladder [Signed, First Edition] New York, NY, Farrar, Strauss and Co. 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover. SIGNED and inscribed by author. "For Ivie, with love, admiration, and good things always. --Love, Owen" (With close-eyed smiley-face drawn in the "O"). Book Very Good with only light bumping and age-tanning. Jacket poor missing top third of jacket spine. Cover image and lettering complete. Fine/Poor. USD 320.00 [Appr.: EURO 212.25 \| £UK 193.25 \| JP¥ 27518] Book number: 002043 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	FAIRCLOUGH, ADAM Race & Democracy: The CIVIL Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972 Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. Univ of Georgia Pr, 1995. Hard Cover. ink underlining throughout. Short nicks to dust jacket Square and solid. An affordable reference/student copy. Fair/Good. USD 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 11 \| £UK 10 \| JP¥ 1419] Book number: 011530 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	HUGHES, LANGSTON Simple Stakes a Claim New York, NY, Rinehart, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition, First Printing. (Large R in circle on back of title page). Book is VG with only light bumping and the normal tanning to pages (Book was printed on low grade paper). DJ is Good. Still bright green with no sun fading but it is moderately rubbed and chipped. Jacket in new Brodart protector. Very Good/Good. USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 83 \| £UK 75.5 \| JP¥ 10749] Book number: 001499 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	ED. ESTHER JACKSON Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement. Vol. 14, No. 3, 1974 New York, Freedomways Associates, 1974. Soft Cover. Original cover image by Romare Bearden. Fine condition with some reading-wear. Pages supple, binding solid. Ill.: Romare Bearden (cover). Fine . USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 000706 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	KAISER, ERNEST Freedomways Reader: Afro-America in the Seventies [Signed] International Publishers, 1977. Soft Cover. Signed by editor. Heavy reading-wear (but solid). Back cover shows vertical crease and bottom corner torn away. Several pages dog-earred. Acceptable . USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2150] Book number: 001964 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	MINTON, JOHN Big 'Fraid and Little 'Fraid: An Afro-American Folktale Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1993. Soft Cover. Very Fine condition. Very light reading-wear. Interior Clean, square and unmarked. Very Fine . USD 18.50 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 \| £UK 11.25 \| JP¥ 1591] Book number: 005153 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.
	WEBB, SHEYANN; NELSON, RACHEL WEST Selma, Lord, Selma: Girlhood Memories of the CIVIL-Rights Days [Signed] Univ of Alabama Pr, 1997. Paperback. 146 pp. SIGNED and inscribed by author (Webb). Light reading-wear. Clean, square and unmarked. . Very Good . USD 7.50 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 645] Book number: 012509 Click here to order or inquire at Hang Fire Books.