Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Heritage Series, Numbers.1-3: Negro Women in the Judiciary; Women in Politics; [and]: Women in Business. Chicago: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, 1968 - 1970. First editions. The octavo volumes. 24pp; 35pp; 24pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher's color pictorial card wraps, staplebound.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce.....

J. Mason Brewer. Ralph White, Jr., illustrator. The Word on the Brazos: Negro Preacher Tales from the Brazos Bottoms of Texas. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1953. First edition.  Inscribed by J. Mason Brewer: "To Daniel Johnson, with con- / gratulations on being able to / obtain the 1st edition of this /.....

Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. New York: Random House, 1967. First edition. Octavo. 198pp. Publisher's light blue quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover in blind, blue top-stain, original unclipped dust jacket.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature.....

Eldridge Cleaver. Maxwell Geismar, introduction. Soul on Ice. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First edition. Octavo. 210pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in green and white, front cover in white, original unclipped dust jacket. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History. 

W. E. Burghardt Du Bois. Black Folk: Then and Now. New York: Henry Holt Company, 1939. First edition. Octavo. 401pp (indexed). Maps. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History.

John Hersey. An Appeal to Christians, on the Subject of Slavery. Baltimore, Printed by Sherwood & Co., [No date, circa 1838]. Third edition. 16mo (approx. 6 x 3.75 inches). 119pp. Rebacked in later leather, utilizing original leather boards and gilt-stamped title strip to spine, endleaves refreshed.

Edward Smyth Jones. The Sylvan Cabin. San Francisco: Self-published, 1915. Panama-Pacific International Exposition edition. Slim octavo. [24]pp. Illustrated with mounted portraits. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps, string bound.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History. 

Rev. W. G. Merriwether. The Origin and History of the Negroes and Their Achievements Before and After Slavery. Nashville, TN: National Baptist Publishing Boards, 1950. First edition. Octavo. 63pp. Publisher's brown textured paper wraps, staplebound.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History.

Huey Newton. To Die for the People: The Writings of Huey P. Newton. New York: Random House, 1972. First edition. Octavo. 232pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover in silver, original unclipped dust jacket.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and.....

Lucien V. Rule. Forerunners of Lincoln in the Ohio Valley. Louisville, KY: Brandt & Fowler, 1927. First edition. Inscribed by Lucien V. Rule: "To Rev. W. W. Logan, D. D. / with sincerest personal appreciation / of his great work in the "Restoration of Israel" in rural places. / Lucien V. Rule. / Goshen.....

Steven H. Stubbs. Duty, Honor, Valor: The Story of the Eleventh Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Philadelphia, MS: Dancing Rabbit Press, Inc., 2000. First edition. Octavo. 948pp. Illustrated with black and white photos. Publisher's blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket. 

Booker T. Washington. Emmett J. Scott, biographical sketch. The Story of Slavery (Instructor Literature Series - No. 286C). Dansville, NY/Chicago: F. A. Owen Co./Hall & McCreary, [1915]. Early reprint edition. Twelvemo. 31pp. Photo portrait. Publisher's cloth-covered paper wraps, staplebound.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History. 

Carter G. Woodson. The Negro in Our History. Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1941. Seventh edition.  Octavo. 673pp (index). Illustrated. Contemporary green buckram, spine lettered in gilt. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History.