James Baldwin. Go Tell it on the Mountain. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited edition. Signed by James Baldwin. Octavo. 232pp. Illustrated with color plates by Burt Silverman. Publisher's brown decorative cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, three raised bands, all edges gilt, silk moire endleaves, ribbon page marker.  From The.....

Daisy Bates. Eleanor Roosevelt, foreword. The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1970. Fourth printing. Octavo. 234pp (indexed). Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher’s orange cloth, spine lettered in black, original unclipped dust jacket. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of.....

Donald Bogle. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films. New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First edition.Quatro. 260pp. Publisher’s quarter black cloth over silver foil boards embossed with stars; spine lettered in silver; black endpapers; illustrated with black-and-white photography; original unclipped dust jacket.From.....

Arna Bontemps. Famous Negro Athletes (Famous Biographies for Young People Series). New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1964. Sixth printing. Signed by Arna Bontemps. Octavo. 155pp (indexed). Illustrated with b/w photos. Publisher’s red cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in black, original unclipped dust jacket.  From The Dr.....

William Stanley Braithwaite. Lyrics of Life and Love. Boston: Herbert B. Turner & Co., 1904. First edition. Octavo. 80pp. Author portrait frontispiece. Publisher's yellow quarter cloth over charcoal gray paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, front cover in yellow, deckled edges.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and.....

J. Mason Brewer. Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants. Austin: Jenkins Publishing, 1970. Reprint edition.  Octavo. 154pp (indexed). Publisher’s buff-colored cloth, spine and front cover lettered in brown, original unclipped, dust jacket.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History.

J. Mason Brewer. Warren E. Roberts, preface. R. L. Tobin, illustrator. Worser Days & Better Times: The Folklore of the North Carolina Negro. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965. First edition. Inscribed by J. Mason Brewer.  Octavo. 192pp (indexed). Illustrated with drawings by R. L. Tobin. Publisher's black quarter cloth over green paper-covered boards, spine lettered in white.....

Gwendolyn Brooks. Primer for Blacks. Chicago: Brooks Press, 1980. Second printing. Inscribed by Gwendolyn Brooks: "For Gertrude Baker. / Sincerely / Gwendolyn Brooks / June 3, 1984."   Octavo. 15pp. Publisher's blue paper wraps, staplebound. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History.

Elaine Brown. A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story. New York: Patheon Books. 1992. First edition. Quarto. 452pp. Illustrated. Publisher’s quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards, spine lettered in red, original unclipped dust jacket. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History. Light shelfwear to.....

Bebe Moore Campbell, Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Son. 1992. First edition. Signed by Bebe Moore Campbell and dated 8/26/93. Quarto. 332pp. Publisher’s blue paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket. Commemorative silk ribbon laid-in. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of.....

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.

Angela Y. Davis. Women, Race & Class. New York: Random House (Vintage Books), 1983. First Vintage Books edition.  Signed by Angela Y. Davis. Octavo. 271pp (indexed) + 2pp ads. Publisher’s card wraps. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History. Fine condition.