Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, the Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, the Devil Finds Work, Other Essays
Penguin USA, February 1998. Cloth. A few pages have underlining and marginal notes; else, fine. More
Penguin USA, February 1998. Cloth. A few pages have underlining and marginal notes; else, fine. More
Vintage, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences..... More
W. W. Norton, January 2008. Trade Paperback. "My husband considered you a dear friend," Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln's assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in..... More
Riverhead Trade, February 2006. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a...... More
Discus Avon, February 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. UP FROM SLAVERY The autobiography of Booker T Washington is a startling portrait ofone of the great Americans of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The illegitimate son of 'a white man and a Negro slave, Washington, a man who struggled for..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2018. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS' 10 BEST BOOKS LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES Locking Up Our Own is an engaging, insightful..... More
Meredith Press, January 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in well worn dustjacket with edgewear & chipping. Front flap is clipped. Top right corner of FFEP is also clipped. Black cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering along spine. Corners bumped. Heavy wear top & bottom of spine with small tears..... More
D. C. Cook Pub. Co, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. Original published under title Handyman of the Lord (1967). Mild shelfwear. [205 pages]. More
Modern Library, October 2008. Trade Paperback. "A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitively edited by Rudolph Byrd." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. One of the leading voices of the Harlem Resaissance and a crucial literary figure of his time, James Weldon Johnson was also an editor, songwriter, founding member and leader of..... More