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.....

John Biggers. Ananse: The Web of Life in Africa. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962. First edition. Signed by John Biggers.  Quarto. 119pp. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Publisher's yellow pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in black, black top-stain, endleaves in black, original unclipped dust jacket.  From The Dr. Joseph A......

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. First 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. The Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems. Chicago: The David Company, 1986. First edition. Inscribed by Gwendolyn Brooks.Octavo. 31pp. Publisher's card wraps, staplebound. News clipping laid-in.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History.

Gwendolyn Brooks. Report from Part Two. Chicago: Third World Press, 1996. First edition. Inscribed by Gwendolyn Brooks. Octavo. 170pp. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History.

H. Rap Brown. Die Nigger Die! New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1969. First edition. Octavo. 145pp. Illustrated. Publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in black, original unclipped dust jacket, illustrated endleaves. From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History. 

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. 

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Candle-Lightin' Time. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1901. First edition. Cover and interior designs by Margaret Armstrong. Octavo. 127pp. Illustrated with b/w photos by The Hampton Institute Camera Club. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, spine  lettered and decorated in gilt, front cover in gilt, green, red and white, top edge gilt.  From.....

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Leigh Richmond Miner, photographs. Li'l' Gal. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1904. First edition. Cover and interior designs by Margaret Armstrong. Octavo. 123pp. Illustrated with b/w photos by Leigh Richmond Miner of the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt.....

Richard Gibson. A Mirror for Magistrates. London: Anthony Blond, 1958. First edition. Inscribed by Richard Gibson. Octavo. 172pp. Publisher's green paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black, original unclipped dust jacket.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History. 

Harry Haywood. Negro Liberation. New York: International Publishers, 1948.First edition. Octavo. 245pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in red, original unclipped dust jacket.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History.