A nice mixed lot of 34 nonfiction books by a variety of authors about Black history, African American life, and the African Diaspora. The majority of these books are vintage copies. A handful of stated First Edition and/or First Printing on the copyright pages (noted below).
Overall, the books look and feel lightly read with light wear (if at all in a couple cases). Clean page blocks. Spines are tight, some with light creasing lines. Light wear to corners/edges. Glossy covers with scuffs. A few of the books have small names and/or sections of underlining/highlighting and marginalia. A few ex-library copies. Overall, the books are in Very Good to Acceptable condition (most are VG to G).
The lot includes (notes below are in addition to light overall wear):
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists (Anchor, 2015): VG, store sticker on back cover
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Anchor, 2018): VG
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (Vintage, 1993): VG
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son (Beacon, 1984): VG
George Breitman, The Last Year of Malcolm X (Pathfinder, 1989): A, edge stains, small initials on bottom page block, small last name on first page
Baba Raul Canizares, Yemaya: Santeria and the Queen of the Seven Seas (Original, 2005, 1st Edition, 1st Printing): A, occasional highlighting, corner wear
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me HCDJ (Spiegel and Grau, 2015): VG
Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power HCDJ (One World, 2017, 1st Edition): VG, edge wrinkling to jacket
Robert Conot, Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness (Bantam, 1967): A, corner creasing, small corner splits
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin, 1986): A, creasing, store sticker on back cover
Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Bloomsbury, 2019): VG
Jonathan Eig, Ali: A Life (Mariner, 2018): G, would be VG if not for a slight crease on front cover
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Penguin, 2003): G, light corner creases, store price sticker on front
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (Grove, 2004): A, would be G if not for light page wrinkling
Ed. Laura Foner and Eugene D. Genoese, Slavery in the New World HCDJ (Prentice-Hall, 1969, 1st Printing): G, ex-library
William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs, Black Rage (Bantam, 1972): G, light corner dings, would be VG if not for small name and mark out on first page
Monique Guillory and Richard C. Green, Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure (NYU Press, 1998, 1st Printing): VG
Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley (Ballantine, 1999): A, would be VG if not for a small corner chip
William Johnston, King (Warner, 1978, 1st Printing): G, would be VG if not for light edge/corner wear
Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele, introduction by Angela Davis, When They Call You a Terrorist HCDJ (St. Martin’s Press, 2018, 1st Printing): VG, mark out on front endpapers, slightly shifted spine
Lewis M. Killian, The Impossible Revolution Phase 2: Black Power and the American Dream (Random House, 1975): A, occasional pen underlining, mark out on first page
Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos of Community (Bantam, 1968): G, foxing to page blocks, light scuffs
Ed. Gerda Lerner, Black Women in White America (Vintage, 1973): A, cut corner on front cover, corner chip, mark out on first page
Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone HCDJ (One World, 2021): A, would be VG if not for a few pages with occasional highlighting
Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi (Dell, 1976): G, corner wear
Ed. Toni Morrison, Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power (Pantheon, 1992): A, occasional pen marginalia, name/address on first page, mark out on first page
Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law (Liveright, 2018): VG
Ronald Segal, The Race War (Bantam, 1967): A, light edge/corner wear, would be G if not for pen notes on front and rear endpapers, mark out on first page
Ben Sidran, Black Talk (Da Capo, 1981): VG, light corner wear
Tommie Smith with David Steele (Temple University Press, 2007, 1st Printing): VG
Earl Spangler, The Negro in America, 1971 Revised Edition HC (Lerner, 1971): A, ex-library with stamps, checkout pocket, spine sticker, would be Good if not for one page with a small edge tear
Chuck Stone, Tell It Like It Is (Pocket, 1970): A, school stamps, would be G if not for a tiny edge chip/tear
Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (Bantam, 1959): A, corner split, small edge tear
Larry Wilde, Official Black Folks Joke Book / Official White Folks Joke Book (Pinnacle, 1975, 1st Printing): A, corner chew
- Comes from a nonsmoking home - The books you see are the books you will receive
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