New York: Oxford University Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.50), lightly rubbed at the edges and surface. Brown boards with black ink lettering and design on the front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Advertised on the jacket as the first historic... More about American Murder Ballads and Their Stories
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1938. Hardcover. Sixth printing. Good in a good jacket, unclipped ($1.96), dampstained toned throughout, rubbed at the edges. Cream cloth with red ink lettering, toned and lightly foxed at spots. Square with a strong binding and a red top stain to the pages with two... More about Designing Women: The Art, Technique, and Cost of Being Beautiful
New York: Random House, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Dunham on a tipped-in page. First printing with the full number line. Fine in a fine jacket. More about Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), heavily rubbed and bumped with a few chips and closed tears. Black buckram, bumped and rubbed at the edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name... More about Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
New York: John Day Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Embree on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Fair jacket, unclipped ($1.00), generally toned and rubbed, split at the front hinge and with a few pieces of loss. Green cloth, lightly rubbed at the edges, with black ink... More about American Negroes; A Handbook
New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1964. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed, a closed tear at the right side of the front flap. Square and firmly bound, a few dents to the bottom of the page edges, clean internally. This work is "a searching study... More about Black Nationalism; A Search for an Identity in America
New York: Viking Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($7.50), rubbed and bumped at the edges, tape reinforcement at the head and foot of the spine. Black cloth with gold and green gilt lettering on the spine. Square, bound with some reading... More about Under the Mountain
London: Routledge & Keagan Paul, 1948. Hardcover. Second printing. Very good in a very good jacket, unclipped (12s. 6d. net), toned and rubbed at the edges. Green boards, faded to spots, with gilt lettering on the spined. Square and firmly bound. Former owner's blind stamp on the front endpaper. One... More about Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
Dublin: Raven Arts, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Stuart Hood. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped. Black cloth, a bump at the top edge, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. According to Hood's Introduction, "Pasolini's Lutheran Letters are polemical interventions in the... More about Lutheran Letters
Dunellen: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps lightly rubbed and toned, a few small bumped at the corners. Firmly bound with toned pages. This issue features stories on the polio epidemic with photographs of treatments and animal testing; sex crimes with photographs of Lawrence Marks... More about Foto November 1937
New York: Friday, Inc., 1940. First Edition. Paperback. About Very Good. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled with a few small tape repairs and chips. Firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. This issue features an essay by Robeson in which he reflects on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation... More about Friday August 30, 1940 [In What Direction Are We Going?
New York: Friday, Inc., 1941. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Covers lightly rubbed. Firmly bound with lightly toned pages, clean otherwise. This issue features a story about John L. Lewis and his fight to increase the wages of coal miners, profusely illustrated with photographs of Lewis, the miners and their... More about Friday April 4, 1941 [Watch Lewis
Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps toned and with a tide mark at the foot of the spine. Firmly bound with a slightly concave spine, clean internally. A collection of Stein's essays in which she "discusses for Americans the concepts of art which are at the... More about Lectures in America
Chicago: Loop Center YWCA, [n.d.]. Paperback. Second Printing. Very Good in wraps, toned at the edges, faded on the back. Firmly bound with clean pages in the two-staple binding. A 50-page collection of "English words and phrases reflecting sexist attitudes toward women in patriarchal society," divided into two Classes ("Patriarchal..... More about An Intelligent Woman's Guide to Dirty Words; The Feminist English Dictionary Volume One
Chicago: Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Wraps generally rubbed and toned. Square and firmly bound with lightly toned pages, foxed inside the wraps, clean otherwise. A bibliography of books on racial and cultural minorities in the United States. More about Race Relations
