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. Riot. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1969. First edition. Octavo. 22pp. Frontispiece by Jeff Donaldson. Publisher's card wraps, staplebound.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History. 

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.....

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.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. In Old Plantation Days. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1903. First edition. Octavo. 127pp. Illustrated. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, green, and black, illustrated pastedown to front cover.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and.....

Dunbar, Paul Laurence. When Malindy Signs. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1903. First edition. Cover and interior designs by Margaret Armstrong. Octavo. 144pp. Illustrated with b/w photos by The Hampton Institute Camera Club. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, green, red and beige, top edge gilt.  From.....

Sam Greenlee. Blues for an African Princess. Chicago: Third World Press, 1971. First edition.  Octavo. 36pp. Publisher’s card wraps, staplebound.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature and History. 

Chester Himes. Black on Black: Baby Sister and Selected Writings. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1973. First edition.  Octavo. 287pp. Publisher's black quarter-cloth over green cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, endleaves in green, original unclipped dust jacket.  From The Dr. Joseph A. and Aaronetta Pierce Collection of African-American Literature.....