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A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman [an Association Copy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Doctoral Dissertation---Rare]
King, Jr., Dr. Martin Luther
Boston: King, Dr. Martin Luther, 1955.
Price: $12,000.00
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A Fine copy (small push at spine head), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY WALTER MOSLEY. Walter Mosley's fifth book featuring Easy Rawlins, the black private investigator living in the Watts area of Los Angeles. (The camera flash has distorted the lettering---in reality, the letters are unfaded and true.) A Fine copy, SIGNED BY WALTER MOSLEY.

A Little Yellow Dog
Mosley, Walter
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.
Price: $50.00
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African American Writers [Portraits and Visions]
Koolish, Lynda [Tucker, Cynthia, Introduction]
Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
Price: $165.00
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A Very Near Fine copy (mild splaying to boards, spine ends very gently pushed), in an about Fine dust jacket (the barest of edge wear). INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY CHARLES JOHNSON. Charles Johnson's analysis of major black writers who have been publishing since about 1970. The inscription reads: "For ________, / With my thanks! / Charles / Johnson / 4/22/98". INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED BY CHARLES JOHNSON, and uncommon thus.

Being & Race: Black Writing since 1970.
Johnson, Charles
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988.
Price: $125.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY WALTER MOSLEY on the title page. The book, conceived by the acclaimed author Walter Mosley, presents thirteen individuals who share their dreams of a self-determined, self-sufficient future, given from a range of perspectives. Quite uncommon SIGNED BY WALTER MOSLEY.

Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems
Chideya, Farai; Crouch, Stanley; Curry, George; Davis, Angela; Hooks, Bell; Elders, Jocelyn, MD; Lee, Spike; Madhubuti, Haki; Malveaux, Julianne; Mosley, Walter; Robinson, Randall; Smith, Anna Deavere; Van Peebles, Melvin [Mosley, Walter; Diawara, Manthia
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.
Price: $60.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY SUSAN STRAIGHT. Straight's second (or third if one counts "Aquaboogie: A Novel in Stories") novel, a story of a black firefighter and entrepreneur seeking to establish himself in the world, walking the straight and narrow in a difficult environment. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY SUSAN STRAIGHT.

Blacker Than A Thousand Midnights
Straight, Susan
New York: Hyperion, 1995.
Price: $35.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY WALTER MOSLEY on the title page. Departing from his famed Easy Rawlins character, Mosley writes of an imagined world where human potential is suddenly fulfilled. A Fine copy of Walter Mosley's debut science fiction novel, SIGNED BY WALTER MOSLEY.

Blue Light
Mosley, Walter
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998.
Price: $50.00
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A Fine copy (quite light shelf wear to base, light surface scratch to front board, and tiny spot to rear board; expected gap at top of heavy page block), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY TERRY MCMILLAN on the title page and SIGNED BY JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN at his Preface. Also, SIGNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON at his contribution, and SIGNED BY ALICE WALKER at her contribution. A Fine copy of this substantial anthology, SIGNED BY TERRY MCMILLAN, SIGNED BY JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN, SIGNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON, and SIGNED BY ALICE WALKER. Given Charles Johnson's criticism of Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" for what Johnson saw as a negative portrayal of African-American Males, it is interesting to find both of their signatures in the same book. A Fine copy signed by 4 important African-American Authors, and quite uncommon as such.

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction
McMillan, Terry [Editor]; Wideman, John Edgar [Preface]; Ansa, Tina; Austin, Doris Jean; Baraka, Amiri; Brown, Wesley; Butler, Octavia; Demby, William; Dove, Rita; Everett, Percival L.; Flowers, Arthur; Gaines, Ernest; Harris, Peter; Johnson, Charles; McC
New York: Viking, 1990.
Price: $175.00
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A Very Good copy (edge wear, gentle vertical elevation to center of spine from opening), in a Very Good dust jacket (edge wear, modest soiling to rear panel) with vibrant coloring to the front panel and spine, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY PAULE MARSHALL on the front free endpaper: "To Mary / from / Paule Marshall / June 1960 [underlined]". The story of a Barbadian family that leaves their island to come to New York City and who then assimilate to their new, white-dominated, environment. Marshall was herself the daughter of immigrant Barbadian parents. Inscribed and signed copies, as well as only signed copies, are quite uncommon, and the dust jackets often are rather worn. A significant debut novel, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY PAULE MARSHALL.

Brown Girl, Brownstones
Marshall, Paule
New York: Random House, 1959.
Price: $525.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY ALICE WALKER. One of 6 volumes of literary criticism launching the Amistad Literary Series, a Series devoted to literary fiction and criticism by and about African Americans, the book contains a selection of reviews and scholarly responses to the work of this great "womanist" author. An uncommon book which is especially uncommon when both signed and in Fine condition. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY ALICE WALKER.

Critical Perspectives Past and Present
Walker, Alice [Gates, Henry Lewis / K. A. Appiah Editors]
New York: Amistad Press, Inc., 1993.
Price: $125.00
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A Fine copy (barest trace of shelf wear to tips of board bottoms), in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY BHARATI MUKHERJEE on the half-title, and SIGNED BY ISHMAEL REED on the title page. A large anthology of essays and commentary on ethnic issues and perspectives from a substantial number of persons of differing ethnicities. Signed copies are quite difficult to find. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY BHARATI MUKHERJEE and SIGNED BY ISHMAEL REED.

Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace
Reed, Ishmael [Editor]; Algarin, Miguel; Baraka, Amiri; Castillo, Ana; Chin, Frank; Fanning, Charles; Foley, Jack; Fox, Robert Elliot; Gioseffi, Daniela; Hare, Nathan; Merrera, Juan Filipe; Ignatiev, Noel; Karenga, Maulana; Kim, Elaine H.; Mukherjee, Bhar
New York: Viking, 1996.
Price: $95.00
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A Fine copy of the first trade edition, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY WALTER MOSLEY on the title page. Walter Mosley's second work of Science Fiction, set in an America where one's citizenship can be suspended, courts are automated, the prison industry is booming, and it is a de facto crime to be black. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY WALTER MOSLEY.

Futureland: Nine Stories of an Imminent World
Mosley, Walter
New York: Warner Books, 2001.
Price: $30.00
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Original paisley decorated red cloth with applied cover and spine labels. First Edition. The unusual binding of paisley red cloth has a large front cover label with the title and author's name separated by a large photograph of an old black gentleman (as well as a decorative spine label). This copy is in near-fine condition with barely a touch of rubbing and soil. Copies in this condition are quite uncommon-- as the front cover label is usually badly rubbed if not partially missing and the soft cloth is often torn or worn. Photos available upon request.

Joggin' Erlong
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906.
Price: $550.00
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A Fine copy (just a trace of wear, vertical light line to front board-apparently a production flaw and seen when held at an angle, tiny bit of soil to rear board), in a Fine dust jacket (expected minor age toning to flap edges) briefly INSCRIBED, SIGNED (AND DATED 2/15/85) BY MAYA ANGELOU. Maya Angelou's second book, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. This, Maya Angelou's second book, is quite scarce when both signed and in a condition this nice. A Fine copy of a very early book in the Maya Angelou canon, INSCRIBED SIGNED AND DATED BY MAYA ANGELOU.

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diie
Angelou, Maya
New York: Random House, 1971.
Price: $150.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket (wrapped very slightly to the right), with a brief presentation inscription, SIGNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON. Historically, the term "Middle Passage" refers to the forced transport across the Atlantic of Africans from Africa to the "New World" as part of the Atlantic slave trade. In this novel, the protagonist, Rutherford Calhoun, is a freed slave who, in escaping a forced marriage, stows away on a ship which he discovers in transit to be a slave trader. Winner of the 1990 National Book Award, the novel presents the slave trade from both a personal and a historical perspective. A Fine copy, briefly INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON. The book is rather scarce signed and extremely scarce when both in this condition and inscribed and signed. Scarce.

Middle Passage
Johnson, Charles
New York: Atheneum, 1990.
Price: $175.00
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Two partial issues of the San Francisco Examiner newspaper, one dated June 30, 1910 and one dated July 1, 1910, each containing articles about the then-impending championship fight between Jack Johnson (known as "The Galveston Giant") and Jim Jeffries (known as "The Boilermaker") for the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which took place years after Jeffries had refused to fight the "Negro" Johnson in a public match. Their ultimate championship match was bathed in racial overtones. A New York Times editorial stated: "If the Black man wins, thousands and thousands of his ignorant brothers will misinterpret his victory as justifying claims to much more than mere physical equality with their white neighbors. If the negro loses, the members of his race will be taunted and irritated because of their champion's downfall." The fight took place in Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910. The fight ended after the 15th round when Jeffries' corner would not let him return to the fight for fear that Johnson would knock him out. The July 1, 1910 issue contains an article (with a standard author's photo) written by Jack London, an avid and quite knowledgeable boxing fan, respecting the impending fight and presenting London's view of it, as well as a separate photograph showing Jack London and Rex Beach conversing. Each item consists of 4 pages, being the front page of the "Sporting News" section, together with the second, penultimate, and last pages. In addition to the center fold made upon issuance, each section has been folded once vertically. Each is fragile, as expected, with some tears, also as expected, but nevertheless remain in good condition. TOGETHER WITH AN ORIGINAL CAPTIONED GLASS PHOTOGRAPHIC NEGATIVE showing Johnson standing over a knocked-down Jeffries half sitting up with one glove on the rope for support. The negative is in surprisingly good condition, with the image and caption bounded by paper tape (some loss to tape), presumably placed thereon by the photographer or publisher. The caption reads: "The end came in the 15th round. Jeffries was battered, weak but game. Johnson shot a hard left to the stomach and, for the first time in his career, Jeffries was knocked down. Groping for the ropes, he pulled himself up was knocked down twice again before Tex Ricard (left), who was referee as well as promoter, stepped in and stopped the fight." The photograph taken from the negative appeared in Life Magazine. A rare and interesting collection of items.

Newspaper Article and Original Glass Photographic Negative of the Fight [Life Magazine]
London, Jack [Boxing Article in the San Francisco Examiner]
San Francisco: 1910.
Price: $1,250.00
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Puissance Noire [Black Power]
Wright, Richard
Paris: Correa Buchet & Chastel, 1955.
Price: $850.00
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A Fine copy of this collection of twelve tales about Slavery, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON on the title page. The book was published in wrappers only and has been inscribed and signed by Charles Johnson on the title page: "For _____________, / with my thanks. / Charles / Johnson". The book is scarce signed. A Fine copy, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CHARLES JOHNSON.

Soulcatcher and Other Stories: Twelve Powerful Tales About Slavery
Johnson, Charles
San Diego / New York: Harcourt (Harvest), 2001.
Price: $75.00
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A Fine copy, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN on the title page. Set in the 18th Century, the novel centers on a young itinerant black preacher and his search for an endangered African woman. A Fine copy, SIGNED BY JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN.

The Cattle Killing
Wideman, John Edgar
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.
Price: $50.00
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An essentially Fine copy (minor wear to spine extremities and corners, remnants of a removed newspaper clipping from the ffep, leaving a small hole, neat ownership name and date to the front pastedown), lacking the rare dust jacket, of this collection of poems of the first African-American poet to achieve international recognition. This is the nicest copy that we have seen.

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1913.
Price: $700.00
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