[minor wear to book at extremities; jacket a little rubbed/scuffed on front panel, moderate wear and shallow chipping along top edge, uneven fading to rear panel, still colorful and attractive]. (pen & ink drawings, illustrated endpapers) An enhanced retelling of the John Henry legend, "a lusty, robust tale of adventure interwoven with many typical songs and tall tales of the Old South." The author somewhat specialized in this sort of thing, having previously written "epics of American folklore" about Paul Bunyan, Winabojo (an Ojibwe spirit-boy) and Pecos Bill -- the latter t... View More...
[slight wear to extremities, spine a little faded]. (pencil drawings) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the limitation page, following the title page: "To: ____, / Peace + / Best Wishes, / Bernie Casey / 63/250." Poems and pencil drawings (the latter mostly of a sexual/erotic nature) by the ex-pro football halfback and wide receiver, who followed up eight moderately successful seasons in the NFL with an equally moderately successful 30+-year career as a Hollywood film and TV actor. Signed by Author View More...
(no dust jacket) [ex-lending library book, but minimally marked as such (just a stamp, a small label and a pencil note on the ffep), moderate shelfwear, light soiling to covers and bottom edge; solid binding, text clean]. Dialect novel, presenting the life story of a Southern "mammy" from her birth in Africa through her years as a slave -- a misery until she was lucky(!) enough to be bought by "Marse Jimmy, a wealthy, kindly planter," after which her life (at least as reviewer Augusta Tucker described it in The New York Times) "was one of great happiness and usefulness.... View More...
[moderately worn, diagonal crease at bottom corner of front cover; binding solid, internally clean]. Trade PB In 1960, Willie Clay, a Korean War veteran and head of an advertising and public relations firm in Cincinnati, decided to walk to California as a way of exploring the problems of African-Americans. This is his story of that odyssey, "A Man's Walk Across America." View More...
[no discernible wear to book; jacket has a very shallow chip and a one-inch closed tear at top of front panel, otherwise just lightly edgeworn (mostly along top edge of rear panel)]. (pen and ink drawings) Story for young readers about Tom B., "a cocky little black boy who uses his shoeshine kit as a passport to explore New Orleans," falls in love with jazz in the French Quarter, meets the Preservation Hall musicians (one of whom promises to give him trumpet lessons), and "one thing naturally leads to another." View More...
(no dust jacket) [worn copy, front hinge starting, spine cloth darkened/soiled with a couple of small chunks missing at rear hinge, soiling to page edges and at bottom of rear cover, rubbing at top of front cover]. (B&W photographs) A plea on behalf of racial harmony, from a Southern perspective. View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [as new, tight and unread]. Reprint of a 1930 black-dialect novel (originally published by Wetzel Publishing Company of Los Angeles), described in an author's note as "the Satirical Reverie of an alert, close-observing, and almost entirely illiterate young Negro cook, who, after years of domestic service in the homes of the 'cultured' has commanded a parrot-like fluency of English that would do credit to many a high school graduate." He dismisses this as mere mimicry, however, further opining that "the shocking illiteracy of such Negroes soon becomes a... View More...
(maroon cloth, gilt stamping on spine; no dust jacket) [moderate soiling to exterior, some mottling to spine cloth (gilt lettering still readable), front cover opens freely but hinges and binding still intact; pencilled note (non-authorial) on front pastedown about the book's having been presented to the Ladies Missionary Society at a Baptist Church (city not noted) in 1902]. The author, whose full name was Thomas Jefferson Morgan (1839-1902), states: "My grandfather was a slaveholder. My father was an Abolitionist. While a student in college I learned to believe in the doctrine of the ... View More...
[solid copy, moderate overall wear, light browning to page edges, a couple of small dents at top/bottom of covers, boards slightly exposed due to wear at corners; jacket rubbed and edgeworn, a few small tears but nothing too serious, minor chipping at top of spine]. (B&W plates) View More...
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