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1 Cat’s Cradle Specialty Catalog Volume 1, Number 1 (July 2010) 811 Carrick Street, High Point NC 27262 African American Titles A selection of books and periodicals by and about African Americans. Black history, art, culture, literature, folklore, and more. (All titles subject to previous sale. We add titles daily to our online inventory.) Aubert, Alvin (ed.). Obsidian: Black Literature in Review, Volume VI, Numbers 1 and 2 (Spring, Summer 1980). Detroit, MI: Department of English, Wayne State University, 1980. $40.00 Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight copy with clean and bright pages, no writing or marks. Wraps have minor edge rubbing. 260 pp. Contents: Bu-Buakei Jabbi, "Influence and Originality in African Writing"; Paul A. Scanlon, "Dream and Reality in Abraham's A Wreath for Udomo"; Robert Fraser, "A Note on Okonkwo's Suicide"; Frederik L. Rusch, "The Blue Man: Jean Toomer's Solution to His Problems of Identity"; Charles Johnson, "Philosophy and Black Fiction"; Emeka Okeke-Exigbo, "Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Afro-American Folk Tradition"; Nicholas Canaday, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man and the Tradition of Black Autobiography"; Leonard J. Deusch, "Rudolph Fisher's Unpublished Manuscripts: Description and Commentary"; fiction by Betty De Ramus, J. Rufus Caleb, Steve Chennault, Shannon Richards, Ulysses A. Pichon, Rochelle H. Dubois; poetry by many authors; book reviews. Inventory #460200. Barrax, Gerald (ed.). Obsidian II: Black Literature in Review (Spring-Summer 1986, Volume 1, Numbers 1 & 2). Raleigh: Department of English, North Carolina State University, 1986. $40.00 Soft Cover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight book with clean and bright pages. Wraps have minor edge rubbing. and light shelf wear. 166 pp. Contents: Henry C. Lacey, "Baraka's AM/TRAK: Everybody's Coltrane Poem"; Gary Smith, "Gwendolyn Brooks' Children of the Poor: Metaphysical Poetry and the Inconditions of Love"; C. James Trotman, "The Measured Steps of a Powerful Long Ladder: The Poetry of Owen Dodson"; Lizabeth Paravisini, "Mumbo Jumbo and the Uses of Parody"; short stories by Delcie Southall Gourdine, Lucille Jones, Gayl Jones, Thylias Moss, Alice F. Small, Ann Rush; poetry by Gail Randolph, Joanne McFarland, Wanda Coleman, Terri L. Jewell, Nubia Kai, Aisha Eshe, James C. Kilgore, Ulysses A. Pichon, Sharyn Jeanne Skeeter, Asa Paschal Ashanti; reviews. Inventory #460207. 2 Bass, Jack. Something's Happening in South Carolina. Atlanta: Southern Educational Foun- dation, 1982. $24.95 Softcover. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Stapled booklet-style binding is tight. Pages are age-dark- ened with occasional written notes. Wraps are age-darkened with general shelf wear and light overall soiling. Summary of activities in the State of Georgia to bring about equitable desegregation of higher education in the 1970s. Inventory #530067. Braeman, John. Before the Civil Rights Revolution : The Old Courts and Individual Rights (41) (Contributions in Legal Studies Ser., No. 41). Westport, CT, U.S.A.: Green- wood Publishing Group, Incorporated, 1988. ISBN 0313262055. $45.00 Coded First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square with sharp corners, tight binding and hinges, clean and bright pages. 216 pp. Book examines the record of the Supreme Court in the period from Reconstruction (1860s) to the "Roosevelt Court" (1937). The author argues that the Civil Rights decisions of the modern (post-1937) Supreme Court were incremental expansions based on precedents established by the Old Court; even discarded precedents continued to have influence in the Modern Court. Chapters: individual rights in a federal system, the scope of constitutionally protected rights, the dilemma of race, the criminal defendant, the Old Court and individual rights reappraised. Notes, bibliography, index. Inventory #970072. Bragg, Linda Brown. Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulder. Chapel Hill: Carolina Wrenn Press, 1984. $32.00 Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Signed by author on title page with brief in- scription. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps slightly age-darkened with light handling wear. 133 pp. Novel about the life of a black woman healer in the southern United States. Inventory #880036. 3 Brown, Michelle (ed.); Fannell, Yvette (ed.).Prometheus Black, Spring 2000. Durham, NC: Duke University Undergraduate Publications Board, 2000. $29.95 Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have general shelf wear. 62 pp. Anthology of poetry and prose by people of color, published by Black undergraduates at Duke University. Inventory #1410088. Buckmaster, Henrietta.Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941. $40.00 Hard Cover. Good/ Good. Fifth edition. Square, sound binding and hinges. Age- darkened pages, clean except for p. 48, which is creased with writing at top margin. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners. Owner's name on front paste-down. DJ faded at spine, with closed tears, small chip at top of spine, general shelf wear. 398 pp. History of abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in the United States in the decades before the Civil War. Inventory #880049. Chafe, William Henry. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. ISBN 019502625X. $40.00 Hard Cover. Good/ Good. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has general edge wear, shelf wear, crease on front flap. 436 pp. Groundbreaking community study of the Civil Rights era in Greensboro, North Car- olina, with much consideration given to the process of school desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Inventory #1420056. 4 Chesnutt, Charles W.The Conjure Woman. Ann Arbor Paperbacks, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969. ISBN 0472061569. $9.95 256. Paperback. Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, sound binding. Pages have occasional pen- cilled underlining and marginal notes. Wraps have handling wear including crease on front near spine. 256 pp. Folk tales retold by black American author Charles W. Chesnutt (1858- 1932) in 1899, representing an important departure from the traditional post-Civil War col- lection of sentimental plantation stories. Inventory #380123. Clayton, Edward T.; King, Martin Luther Jr. (intro.). The Negro Politician: His Success and Failure. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1964. $24.95 Hard Cover. Very Good/ Fair. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean but age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is clean, edge rubbed. DJ heavily edge worn with creasing, tears. Fading at spine. 213 pp. Deals primarily with the role of the Black politician in the total scheme of political affairs at the height of the Civil Rights movement. Some consideration of historical background as well as contemporary context. Inventory #940058. Clifton, Lucille. Blessing the Boats. New and Selected Poems 1988-2000. American Poets Continuum, Rochester NY: BOA Editions Ltd., 2000. ISBN 1880238888. $9.95 Softcover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light edge rubbing. 144 pp. African American woman's poetry. Inventory #1980027. 5 Coles, Robert. A Study of Courage and Fear: Children of Crisis, Volume I. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. $24.95 Hard Cover. Very Good/ Good. 8th printing. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Remainder mark on lower edge of pages (visible when book is closed). Cloth over boards is edge rubbed. DJ has general shelf wear. 401 pp. Study of the impact of racial desegregation on the lives of people through the use of case studies. Inventory #890086. Cooper, Michael L.. The Double V Campaign: African Americans and World War II. New York: Lodestar, 1998, 1998. ISBN 0525675620. $14.95 Stated and Coded First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/ Fine. Book has never been read. Tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Paper over boards is very slightly edge rubbed. DJ has very light edge rubbing. 86 pp. History of African American experience in World War II, both on the home front and in the military. Illustrated maps, b/w pho- tographs. "Double V" campaign was supported by the NAACP and black leaders like A. Philip Randolph, and meant that African Americans saw WWII as a time of working for two victories--an overseas military victory over fascism, and a victory at home over racial discrimination. For older children and teens. Inventory #140110. Craft, William; Ernest, John. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery. Acton: Copley Publishing Group, 2000. ISBN 158390011X. $40.00 120. Paperback. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright text pages. Wraps have light handling wear, edge rubbing, light shelf wear and minor soiling. 120 pp. Autobiographical account attributed to William Craft, who escaped with his wife Ellen from slavery in Georgia in 1848 and traveled to Boston. Introductory essay by the editor. Inventory #360067. 6 Crow, Jeffrey J.; Regan, Mary; Franklin, John Hope (foreword). The Rich Her- itage of African Americans in North Carolina. Raleigh: North Carolina Divi- sion of Tourism, Film and Sports Development, 1994. $24.95 Soft Cover. Very Good/ No Dust Jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Light handling wear and edge rubbing. 52 pp. Tourist literature fo- cusing on North Carolina's African American history, historic sites, and her- itage. Inventory #1000099. Current, Angella P.. Breaking Barriers: An African American Family & the Methodist Story. Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Abingdon Press, 2001. ISBN 0687070368. $9.95 Soft Cover. As New/ No Dust Jacket. Square book with tight binding, clean and bright pages. Book has not been used. 133 pp. Life story of Leontine Turpeau Current Kelley, the first African American woman elected bishop in a mainline denomination. Told by her daughter. Inventory #450028. Dunbar, Paul Laurence; Howells, W.