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Catalogue of Books' Pp 414-6) 1 (Africa) Abrahams, Peter. TELL FREEDOM: Memories of Africa. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First American edition. 370 pages. 8.5 x 5.5", pictorial cloth, dj. Light dj edge wear, VG/VG. Signed by author on blank. Autobiography by black South African who fled to England. $25.00 2 (African-American) Beecher, John. ALL BRAVE SAILORS: The Story of the SS Booker T. Washington. NY: L.B. Fischer, 1945. Copyright, 1945. 208 pages. 8 x 5", blue cloth, no dj. VG/none. 'August Meier, Sep 4, 1945' on pastedown - African-American history scholar. First US Merchant Marine ship under African-American, Captain Hugh Mulzac, with mixed race crew. $10.00 3 (African-American) Blake, W.O. (William), compiler. The HISTORY OF SLAVERY and the SLAVE TRADE, Ancient & Modern. The Forms of Slavery that Prevailed in Ancient Nations, Particularly in Greece & Rome. The African Slave Trade & the Political History of Slavery in the United States. Columbus, Ohio: Published & Sold Exclusively by Subscription, by J. & H. Miller, 1858. Copyright 1857. 832 pages. 13 engraved & lithograph plates. 10 x 6.5", leather. Boards & spine piece detached, very worn, text clean tight, needs rebinding, else G. 'August Meier, August, 1947' on blank - Afro-American historian. $50.00 4 (African-American) Blose, David T. & Ambrose Caliver, Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior. STATISTICS of the EDUCATION of NEGROES, 1933-34 & 1935-36. Bulletin 1938, No. 13. Washington: GPO, 1939. 67 pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap worn, soiled, pulling from staples, text G. 'August Meier, Oct '51' on wrap - African-American history scholar. $10.00 5 (African-American) Chesnutt, Charles W. The MARROW of TRADITION. Boston & NY: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1901. Copyright, 1901. vi,329 pages. 8 x 5", black & silver stamped yellow cloth. Tips worn, cover soiled, rubbed, 1901 gift inscription, lightly toned, G. 'August Meier' rubberstamp on pastedown - African-American history scholar. Chesnutt, 1858-1932, mixed race ancestry, self-identified as African-American, taught at black schools, studied law, wrote short stories & novels of racial identity, reconstruction, Jim Crow, later active NAACP. Marrow of Tradition based on Wilmington Massacre of 1898. $125.00 6 (African-American) Clarke, Jacquelyne Johnson, Southern University. THESE RIGHTS THEY SEEK: A Comparison of the Goals & Techniques of Local Civil Rights Organizations. Washington: Public Affairs Press, copyright, 1962. ix,85 pages. 9 x 6", cloth, dj. Dj chipped, 'August Meier, 12/62' on pastedown - African-American history scholar, with his ink underlining & marginal marks, G/G. Significant Negro civil rights movements, organizations. $15.00 7 (African-American) Edwards, G. Franklin; Otis Dudley Duncan, Foreword. The NEGRO PROFESSIONAL CLASS. Glencoe: Free Press, copyright 1959. 224 pages. 8 x 5.5", blue cloth, dj. Review slip. 'August Meier, 11/59' on pastedown, with his notes & underlining, corner bumped, dj torn, G/fair. 5 pages of correspondence with The Crisis editor James W. Ivy regarding Meier's book review & 3pp review typescript inserted. $15.00 8 (African-American) Frazier, E. Franklin, Howard University. The NEGRO in the UNITED STATES. NY: Macmillan Company, 1949. Copyright, 1949. xxxi,767 pages. 8.5 x 5.5", blue cloth, no dj. Cover bit rubbed, soiled, few marks in text, creased corners, upper hinge little loose, dj panel pasted inside, G/none. Signed by author on titlepage. August Meier rubberstamp - African-American history scholar. $25.00 9 (African-American) Frazier, E. Franklin, Howard University. BLACK BOURGEOISIE. Glencoe: The Free Press & The Falcon's Wing Press, copyright 1957. 264 pages. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, no dj. Cover worn, hinge broken, marks throughout text, dj panel pasted inside, fair/none. Signed by author on titlepage. 'August Meier' on pastedown - African-American history scholar. $25.00 10 (African-American) Frazier, E. Franklin. NEGRO YOUTH at the CROSSROADS: Their Personality Development in the Middle States. Prepared for The American Youth Commission. Washington: American Council on Education, 1940. xxiii,301 pages. 9 x 6", cloth, no dj. Cloth faded, rubbed, VG/none. 'August Meier, Feb. 28, 1945' on pastedown - African-American history scholar. $20.00 11 (African-American) Helm, MacKinley. ANGEL MO' and HER SON, ROLAND HAYES. First edition. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1942. xi,289 pages. Color frontispiece portrait. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, no dj. Cloth lightly soiled, G/none. 2 signatures & 2 rubberstamps of William Henry Huff, Attorney, 6532 Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL - 1888-1963, African-American pharmacist, poet, lawyer, songwriter. $25.00 12 (African-American) Herndon, Angelo. LET ME LIVE. Special edition dedicated to loyal friends. NY: Random House, copyright, 1937. First printing. 409 pages. 4 halftone plates of Herndon, with mother, lawyer. 8 x 5.5", cloth, no dj. 2 half-inch tears top of spine, tips rubbed, owner name crossed-out, G/none. 'August Meier, May 1968' on pastedown - African-American history scholar. $15.00 13 (African-American) Himes, Chester. IF HE HOLLERS LET HIM GO. First edition. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, copyright, 1945. 249 pages. 7.75 x 5", black cloth, no dj. Cover bit rubbed, text trifle toned, VG/none. First novel. 'August Meier, June, 1946' on pastedown - African- American history scholar. $15.00 14 (African-American) Hughes, Langston & Milton Meltzer. BLACK MAGIC: A Pictorial History of the Negro in American Entertainment. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, copyright 1967. 375 pages. Illustrated. 11 x 8.5", cloth, dj. Dj lightly rubbed, VG/VG. $15.00 15 (African-American) MacIver, R.M. [Robert Morrison]. The MORE PERFECT UNION: A Program for the Control of Inter-group Discrimination in the United States. NY: Macmillan Company, 1948. First printing. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, dj. Dj edge wear, few chips, short tear, VG/G. 'August Meier' - pastedown rubberstamp - African-American history scholar. $10.00 16 (African-American) Myrdal, Gunnar, with Richard Sterner & Arnold Rose. An AMERICAN DILEMNA: The Negro Problem & Modern Democracy. 2 volumes. First edition. NY: Harper & Brothers, copyright 1944. lv,705 pages + xii, pp (707)-1483. 9.5 x 6", cloth, no dj. Last section text 1 vol detached, tips rubbed, bit soiled, hinges little loose, few marginal marks, fair/none. 'August Meier, Oberlin, Ohio' on pastedowns - African-American history scholar. $25.00 17 (African-American) National Urban League, New York, NY, Department of Industrial Relations. HOW UNEMPLOYMENT AFFECTS NEGROES: A statement covering principal cities in the nation & based upon information supplied by persons in daily contact with employment problems. March 1931. 40 pages, printed fronts only. 11 x 8.5", stapled wrappers. Cover rubbed, soiled, library rubberstamp, VG. 'August Meier, Oct '51' on wrap - African-American history scholar. $15.00 18 (African-American) National Urban League, New York, NY. The STATE of BLACK AMERICA: 1978. January 17, 1978. 204 pages. 10.5 x 8.25", paperback. Cover scuffed, VG. Contributions by Bernard E. Anderson, James R. Dumpson, Charles V. Hamilton, Robert B. Hill, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Bernard C. Watson, Robert C. Weaver. $25.00 19 (African-American) Peterkin, Julia, Text; Doris Ulmann, Photographic Studies. ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL. NY: Robert O. Ballou, copyright, 1933. 251 pages. Many plates. 8.5 x 6", blue cloth, no dj. Cover faintly rubbed, VG/none. $175.00 20 (African-American) Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell, University of Michigan. AMERICAN NEGRO SLAVERY: A Survey of the Supply, Employment & Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime. NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1918. (First printing). xi,529 pages. Folding chart. 8.75 x 5", blue cloth, no dj. Tip frayed, cover rubbed, spotted, upper hinge broken, text clean, tight, G/none. August Meier rubberstamp on pastedown - African-American history scholar. Phillips, 1877- 1934, influential historian, gathered plantation records, argued slavery became unprofitable, plantation owners as responsible providers. $50.00 21 (African-American) Priest, Josiah & Rev. W.S. Brown, M.D., Glasgow, Kentucky. BIBLE DEFENCE of SLAVERY; or the Origin, History, & Fortunes of the Negro Race, as deduced from history, both sacred & profane, their natural relations - moral, mental, & phyiscal - to the other races of manknd, compared & illustrated - their future destiny predicted, &c. To which is added A Plan of National Colonization, adequate to the entire Removal of the Free Blacks, & all that may hereafter become free, in a manner harmonizing with the peace & well-being of both races. Sixth stereotype edition. Glasgow, KY: Rev. W.S. Brown, M.D., 1853. Copyright 1851. 569 pages, 8pp testimonials. 9.25 x 6", black cloth. Lacking spine cloth, tips worn, cloth soiled, upper hinge loose, foxed, fair. $50.00 22 (African-American) Social Science Institute, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, Charles S. Johnson, Director. A MONTHLY SUMMARY of EVENTS and TRENDS in RACE RELATIONS. Later: Race Relations: A Monthly Summary of Events & Trends. Volume 3, Numbers 4,6,8-9,11-12; Volume 4, Numbers 1-12; Volume V, Numbers 1-4, 6-8. (21 issues). November 1945 - April-May, 1948. 28-40 pages per issue. 10 x 8", printed wrappers. Some rubbing, soiling, splitting wrappers, postal addresses, G. Articles on industry, economics, health, society, Negro Press, Japanese Americans, Jews, Southern Governors Conference, Athens, Alabama, lynchings, trials, housing, churches, Mexicans, &c. $100.00 23 (African-American) Stampp, Kenneth M. The PECULIAR INSTITUTION: Slavery in the Ante- Bellum South. First edition. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. xi,436 pages, xiii - index. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, dj. Dj taped, torn, worn, VG/fair. 'August Meier, 5/22/58' on blank - African-American history scholar. $10.00 24 (African-American) Thompson, Era Bell, 1905-1986. AMERICAN DAUGHTER. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1946. x,301 pages. 7.5 x 5.5", cloth, no dj. Cloth soiled, G/none. African- American autobiography, born Iowa, raised North Dakota, long-time editor Ebony magazine. 'August Meier, 12-29-47' on pastedown - African-American history scholar.
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