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THE CHALLENGES OF SPREADING ISLAM IN AMERICA and Other Essays

By: Al Talal, Dr. Faissal Fahd and Dr. Khalid Abdullah Taria Al Mansour

Price: $30.00

Publisher: [San Francisco], First African Arabian Press: (1980)

Seller ID: 5854

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Stiff white wraps, perfect bound, front cover with portraits of authors. ; 6" x 9"; 213 pp; Appears unread. Mild wear to covers, clean and unmarked within.
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Black Language

By: Andrews, Malachi and Paul T. Owens

Price: $30.00

Publisher: West Los Angeles and Berkeley, Seymour-Smith: (1973)

Seller ID: 3647

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Black wraps, cover illustration and lettering in brown. $2.95 cover price. This copy has a lengthy inscription on the title page, penned and signed by author Andrews: Frankie / Hea it is / Black, Melanin Black / ain't even gon get / Back cause it you / Moving in Beauty and / Rhythm of the World / Malachi Andrews.; 6" x 8-1/4"; x, 150 pp; Signed by Author; Covers/spine worn and rubbed, rear cover with 2" split at top of spine, pages have marginal staining and corner wear, free of tears or writing.
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SLAVE LIFE IN GEORGIA: A Narative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave

By: Brown, John; F. N. Boney (Editor)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Savannah, Georgia, The Beehive Press: (1972)

Seller ID: 4426

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

First publication of this work was in London in 1855. Printed at The Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont. Yellow cloth with black spine lettering, frontispiece is portrait of author. Brown dust jacket with portrait of author and white lettering. ; 5" x 7-3/4"; xxi, 216 pp; Book has no wear of note. Jacket is ever-so-slightly faded (we can see where a label was removed from the front panel revealing the slight color difference), very slight wear along bottom edge, protected by mylar cover.
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Soul Looks Back in Wonder

By: Feelings, Tom

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Dial Books: 1993

Seller ID: 4906

ISBN: 0-8037-1001-1

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

... celebrates the African-American spirit along with thirteen major American poets: Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, Alexis De Veaux, Mari Evans, Darryl Holmes, Langston Hughes, Rashidah Ismaili, Haki R. Madhubuti, Walter Dean Myers, Mwatabu Okantah, Eugene B. Redmond, Askia M. Toure, Margaret Walker. Black paper over boards, purple cloth spine, endpapers and each page illustrated to accompany poetry. Dust jacket with full color wrap-around illustration. This copy with a warm inscription on the title page penned and inscribed by Feelngs to fellow artist Claude Clark. ; Oblong, 10-1/2" x 9-3...
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THE QUALITY OF HURT: The Autobiography Of Chester Himes, Volume I

By: Himes, Chester

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company: 1972

Seller ID: 6181

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Brown cloth boards, black cloth spine lettered in gilt, brown endpapers. Light yellow dust jacket offers portraits of Himes on front and back panel. ; 6" x 8-1/2"; 351 pp; Spine ends misshapen, covers show minor discoloration at edges, clean and unmarked within. Dust jacket lightly soiled, edgeworn with two small losses along bottom, not price clipped ($7.95), in clear protective cover.
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International Library of Negro Life and History, HISTORICAL NEGRO BIOGRAPHIES

By: Robinson, Wilhelmena S.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Washington, London, Publishers Company: (1967)

Seller ID: 6266

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Pebbled mustard cloth, lettered in black and silver, "more than 500 personalities are included" (Introduction) - many are pictured. Uncommon in mustard jacket with black and silver lettering, spine denoting this as "Family Ediiton". Laid in is envelope with Bonus Offer and Consultation Certificate within (lacking response card). ; 8-3/4" x 11"; xii, 291 pp; Bumped upper right otherwise lightly worn at corners and spine ends, sound binding, clean and unmarked. Jacket front panel with creasing, rubbed and edgeworn with small losses, in clear protective cover.
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ZBC 1994: A Geonomical Solution to the Problem of Haphazard Black Migration

By: Walton, Sidney F., Jr.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: San Ramon, California, San Ramon Valley Counseling: 1972

Seller ID: 4879

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Red cloth, gilt spine lettering, text followed by several appendices and index. White dust jacket with cover illustration of graph. This copy with lengthy and warm presentation inscription penned and signed by the author inside the front cover. ; 6" x 9-1/4"; 157+ pp; Signed by Author; Book with no wear of note, unmarked within apart from author's inscription. Jacket edgeworn with small closed tears, rear panel with small rubbed area and another small area covered with whiteout, not price clipped ($7.95), protected by mylar cover.
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THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND OUTLINED, or, Handbook for the Study of the Negro

By: Woodson, Carter G.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History: (1936)

Seller ID: 5531

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Publishers green cloth with black lettering to front cover and spine, illustrated with a few maps. ; 6" x 9"; viii, 478 pp; This edition is scarce in the trade. A later Greenwood Press reprint can be found more readily. ; A copy that has been well-used but not abused. Darkening to spine, rubbing along spine edges, fraying, bumped corners, front hinge a bit tender, title page with some soiling and creasing, prior owner name inked inside rear cover, pp 23-24 were marked with a straight pin (now removed) but the pin left tiny holes and damage to adjacent pages, text generally clean (teo p...
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Category: African American Studies