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Black StudiesA SELECTION OF FICTION AND SCHOLARLY BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS
Black Studies
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AFRICA FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF AMERICAN NEGRO SCHOLARS;
Paris, Presence Africaine 1958 Paperbound Good 8 Vo.,
pict. paper wraps, pp.,xii, 418, 14 pp of adverts, illustrated, 9 full page black & white plates, binding slightly cocked, light edge wear, ex private library with personal bookplate of former owner, Contains preface by Alioune Diop, Introduction by John A Davis. Essays by African scholars under the headings; Analysis of African Societies; African Art, Dance, and Literature; American Negro Relations with Africa. Of special note are the essays on African art & sculpture
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32.50 USD
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Ademola, Frances, Edited By REFLECTIONS; Nigerian Prose & Verse,
Lagos, Nigeria African Universities Press, 1965 Reprint of 1962 Edit. Paperbound Very Good 8 Vo.,
119 pages, distributors review slip laid in , ink sig on t.p., small mark on front free endpaper, light soil to back wrap,
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8.50 USD
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Amadi Elechi THE CONCUBINE;
London Heinemann 1974 0 435 90025 0 / 9780435900250 Paperbound Fine 8 Vo., Cover Drawing By Shyam Varma
pict paper wraps, 279, first novel from this Nigerian writer, A volume in African Writers Series
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10.00 USD
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Armstrong Thomas KING COTTON
Toronto Collins 1948 First Canadian Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8 Vo,.22 cm.
cloth, 928 pages, ex priv. library w/bookplate inside front cover, edge chips to d.j. with some small losses, spine of d.j. toned,d.j is NOT price-clipped, in protective mylar jacket, ...a young Lancashire man invents a new way of processing cotton..on the verge of prospering from his discovery the young man is forced to choose sides in the US Civil War..does he support his cotton suppliers the South or the North...champions of freedom...The Federal Government imposed a blockade on the Confederacy, starving the Lancashire mills of cotton. a grand read!!
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35.00 USD
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Barbour, Floyd B THE BLACK SEVENTIES, Leading Black Authors Look at the Present and Reach Into the Future
Boston Porter Sargent 1970 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good 8 Vo.,
green cloth,pp.x,335, firm. clean copy. Contributions by Larry Neal, James Bossgs, Adelaide Cromwell Hill,James A. Joseph, Eugene Perkins, S.E. Anderson, Margeret G. Burroughs, Dudley Randall, Yvonne Ruelas, Henry Martin, Orde Coombs, Acklyn Lynch,James A Chaffers, Don L. Lee, Lance Jeffers, Chester Pierce, Margaret Walker, also a letter from H. Rap Brown
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20.00 USD
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Beti, Mongo KING LAZARUS; : A Novel
London Heinemann 1970 0 435 90077 3 / 9780435900779 Paperbound Very Good 8 Vo.,
pict paper wraps, 191, ink sig on t.p., paperpull at lower edge of rear panel resulting in the loss of 2 lines of type.,
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15.00 USD
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Brutus, Dennis CHINA POEMS
Austin, The University of Texas at Austin, 1975 First Edition Paperbound Very Good Oblong 8 Vo.,
illustrated paper wraps, 36 pages, one b & w illustration, ink sig on t.p.,a small crease at lower corner of front cover. Brutus was a anti-Apartheid leader and teacher who was at one time sentenced to eighten months hard labor on Robben Island where Nelson Mandella was also held. After his term he left South Africa , and for a time lived in London. He later moved to the US and taught at Northwestern and the Univ. of Texas at Austin. The poems were translated by Ko Ching-Po.
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100.00 USD
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Chimombo, Steve NAPOLO POEMS;
Zomba, Malawi Manchichi Publishers, 1987 First Edition Paperbound Fine 8 Vo.,
printed paper wraps, ix, 55 pages, , ink sig on t. p. Steve Chimombo was educated in Malawi, Wales, England and the US. He holds a doctorate from Columbia Univ,...and an Honorary Fellowship in Writing from Iowa. (from the back cover)
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Duerden, Dennis AFRICAN ART & LITERATURE; The Invisible Present
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A. Heinemann 1977 0 435 91190 2 / 9780435911904 Second Edition, Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8 Vo.,
blue cloth, xiv, 169, illustrated, 6 pp bibliography, index, ink sig on t. p., d.j. is price-clipped, a clean, bright copy
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Emenyonu, Ernest CYPRIAN EKWENSI,
London Evans Bros 1974 0237 28418 9 / 9780237284183 First Edition Paperbound Fine 8 Vo.,
xiv, 137, pict. paper wraps, port. frontis., 2 pp bibliography, index, Author presents the first thorough chronological study of the works of Ekwensi, a key figure in the historical development of modern West African writing in English.
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Goodwin, K. L. UNDERSTANDING AFRICAN POETRY; A Study of Ten Poets
London Heinemann 1982 0 435 91326 3 / 9780435913267 First Paperback Edit. Paperbound Very Good 8 Vo.,
pict paper wraps, xix, 204, index, ink sig on t.p. the ten poets...Awoonor, Brutus,Clark,Kunene, lo Liyong,Soyinka, Okigbo,Okot p'Bitek, Peters and Okara
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Kachingwe, Aubrey NO EASY TASK,
London Heinemann 1966 First Paperback Edit. Paperbound Very Good 8 Vo.,
pict. paper wraps, 233, light soil to wraps, ink sig on t. p., 'A modest but moving novel about the political scenery in a British colony in Central Africa.' (from the back panel) A volume in the African Writers Series
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Munonye, John OIL MAN OF OBANGE; African Writers Series
London Heinemann 1971 0 435 90094 3 / 9780435900946 First Edition Paperbound Very Good 8 Vo.,
pict paper wraps, 238 pages, ink sig on title page, Vol 94 in the African Writers Series. Munonye, a Nigerian, had three other novels published in the African Writers Series: The Only Son , Obi and A Wreath For The Maidens.
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Plomley, N.J.B. THE TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; A Short Account of Them and Some Aspects of Their Life;
Launceston,Tasmania Self Published 1977 First Edition Paperbound Fine 8 Vo.,
printed paper wraps, stapled at spine, pp., viii,72; illustrated with line drawings, 3 pp bibliography. The Tasmanian aborigines are an extinct people. They had no written language, so that our information about them is not only limited but comes either from the records of those others who were their contemporaries, or through the artefacts and material remains of the aborigines.
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