Parke Bernet: BOOKS BLACK STUDIES MATERIAL: AFRICA CARIBBEAN UNITED STATES FIRST EDITIONS ENGLISH AMERICAN LITERATURE 16th - 20th CENTURIES PRESS BOOKS SETS LEATHER BINDING, 114,

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Auction Date: November 06, 1970 - November 06, 1970

Page Size: 455 items in 5 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
401		ART. A group of 17 volumes about black artists in America. Dover, Cedric. American Negro Art, N.Y., Graphic Society, [1965] White, Charles. Images of Dignity: the Drawings of Charles White, Commentary by Benjamin Horowitz, N.p., Ward Ritchie Press, [1967]			USD -	110.00
402		AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Pickens, William. Bursting Bonds, Enlarged Edition: The Heir of Slaves, Boston, 1923 (inscribed by author to Joel E. Spingarn) Herndon, Angelo. Let Me Live, N.Y., [1937] Handy, W.C. Father of the Blues, London, [1957] Gordon, Taylor. Born t			USD -	110.00
403		AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Thomas, Will. The Seeking, N.Y., [1953] Powell, A. Clayton. Against the Tide, N.Y., 1938 Wright, Richard. Black Boy, [London, 1947] Thomas, Roscoe. Precious Poverty, N.Y., [1969] Moton, Robert. Finding a Way Out, Garden City, 1922 Yancey, A			USD -	70.00
404		AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Anderson, Marian. My Lord, What a Morning, N.Y.,1956 Green, Ely, Ely, an Autobiography, N.Y., [1966] Johnson, James Weldon. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, new edition with intro. by Carl Van Vechten, N.Y., 1927 Wright, Richard. Bl			USD -	60.00
405		BIBLIOGRAPHY. Spingarn, Arthur B. Check List of Negro Authors Written in English and in African Dialects in the Library of Arthur B. Spingarn, 2 vols.; Check List of Music by Negro Composers in the Arthur B. Spingarn Collection, 1 vol.; typed loose-leaf n			USD -	130.00
406		BIOGRAPHY. Foner, Philip. The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass, 4 vols., N.Y., [1950] Douglass, Frederick. Life and Times, Boston, 1893 Graham, Shirley. There Was Once a Slave ... Frederick Douglass, N.Y., [1947] Quarles, Benjamin, ed. Frederick Do			USD -	60.00
407		THE CARIBBEAN. A group of 20 volumes, virtually all by black writers, dealing with the history, politics, etc., of the West Indies: Parry, J. H. and P.M. Sherlock. A Short History of the West Indies, London, 1965 Brown, Wenzell. Angry Men, Laughing Men, t			USD -	11,000.00
408		THE CARIBBEAN. A group of 14 volumes dealing with the history, politics, sociology of the Dominican Republic, the Guianas, Brazil: Walker, Stanley. Journey Toward the Sunlight, a Story of the Dominican Republic, N.Y., [1947] Cooper, Page. Sambumbia (Domin			USD -	80.00
409		THE CARIBBEAN. A group of 25 volumes, mostly novels, by black writers of the West Indies: Salkey, Andrew. A Quality of Violence, London, [1959] (inscribed by author to Arthur Spingarn) Salkey. Escape to an Autumn Pavement, London, [1960] (inscribed by aut			USD -	24,000.00
410		THE CARIBBEAN. A group of 20 volumes, virtually all novels, mostly by black writers from British Guiana: Harris, Wilson. The Whole Armour, London, [1962] Harris. The Far Journey of Oudin, London, [1961] Harris. The Eye of the Scarecrow, London, [1965] Har			USD -	18,000.00
411		THE CARIBBEAN: A group of 23 volumes, mostly novels, by black writers of the West Indies: Hearne, John. Autumn Equinox, N.Y., [1961] (first American edition) Hearne. Land of the Living, London, [1961] Hearne. The Faces of Love, London, [1957] Abrahams, Pe			USD -	160.00
412		THE CARIBBEAN: A group of 21 volumes of poetry, virtually all by black West Indian writers: McFarlane, J.E. A Treasury of Jamaican Poetry, London, [1949] Figueroa, John. Love Leaps Here, [London, 1962] (inscribed by author to Arthur Spingarn) Anduze, Aubr			USD -	240.00
413		THE CARIBBEAN. HAITI & MARTINIQUE. A group of 22 volumes, mostly literature, and virtually all by black writers of Haiti and Martinique: De Vastey, Baron. Political Remarks on Some French Works and Newspapers, Concerning Hayti, London, 1818 (new boards) G			USD -	24,000.00
414		CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK LIBERATION. Logan, Rayford, ed. What the Negro Wants. Chapel Hill, [1944] Rowan, Carl. Go South to Sorrow, N.Y., [1957] Rowan. South of Freedom, N.Y., 1952 Thompson, Daniel The Negro Leadership Class, Foreword by Martin Luther King,			USD -	70.00
415		CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK LIBERATION. Jackson, Algernon. Jim and Mr. Eddy, a Dixie Motorlogue, Washington, [1930] Rogers, J.A. From Superman to Man, N.Y., [ 1957] Logan, Rayford. The Negro and the Post-War World, a Primer, Washington, 1945 Maston, T.B. Segre			USD -	150.00
416		CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK LIBERATION. Garvey, A. Jacques. Garvey and Garveyism, Kingston, Jamaica, 1963 Schollianos, Alva. New Frontiers, N.Y., 1961 Schollianos. Call to Greatness, N.Y., 1963 White, Walter. How Far the Promised Land?, N.Y., 1955 Bennett, Jr.			USD -	100.00
417		CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK LIBERATION. Redding, J. Saunders. On Being Negro in America, Indianapolis, [1951] Ottley, Roi. New World a-Coming, Inside Black America, Boston, 1943 Gardiner, Robert. A World of Peoples, The Reith Lectures 1965, N.Y., 1966 White, W			USD -	110.00
418	CULLEN, COUNTEE	Color, N.Y., 1925 Copper Sun, N.Y., 1927			USD -	35.00
419	CULLEN, COUNTEE	Color, N.Y., [1925] Copper Sun, N.Y., [1927] One Way to Heaven, N.Y., 1932 Caroling Dust, Anthology of Negro Poets, ed. by Cullen, N.Y., [1927]			USD -	40.00
420	CULLEN, COUNTEE	The Ballad of the Brown Girl, N.Y., 1927 The Lost Zoo, N.Y., [1940]			USD -	50.00
421	CULLEN, COUNTEE	The Black Christ and Other Poems, N.Y., 1929 The Medea and Some Poems, N.Y., 1935			USD -	55.00
422	DU BOIS, W. E. B.	The Amenia Conference, an Historic Negro Gathering, Amenia, N.Y., Troutbeck Press, 1925 The Philadelphia Negro, a Social Study, Philadelphia, 1899			USD -	40.00
423	DU BOIS, W. E. B.	The Souls of Black Folk, Chicago, 1903 The Gift of Black Folk, Boston, 1924 The Ordeal of Mansart, N.Y., 1957 Mansart Builds a School, N.Y., 1959 Worlds of Color, N.Y., 1961 Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace, N.Y., [1945] In Battle for Peace, [N.Y.]			USD -	150.00
424		DUNBAR and PAGE. Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Folks from Dixie, N.Y., 1898 Dunbar. Lyrics of the Hearthside, N.Y., 1899 Dunbar. Lyrics of Lowly Life. N.Y., 1899 Dunbar. The Complete Poems, N.Y., 1913 Page, Thomas Nelson. In Ole Virginia or Marse Chan and Other			USD -	50.00
425		EDUCATION AND RELIGION. Johnston. The Religion of Negro Protestants, N.Y., [ 1956] Johnston. The Development of Negro Religion, N.Y., [1954] Whiting, J.L. Shop and Class at Tuskegee, a Definitive Story of the Tuskegee Correlation Technique, 1910-1930, Bos			USD -	70.00
426		19th CENTURY. Ward, Samuel. Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro, frontispiece portrait, London, 1855 Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House, frontispiece portrait, N.Y., 1868 Webb, Frank J. The Gar			USD -	360.00
427	ELLISON, RALPH	Invisible Man.	N.Y.	1952	USD -	70.00
428		HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Scholes, Theophilus. Glimpses of the Ages or the Superior and Inferior Races, So-Called, Discussed in the Light of Science and History, 2 volumes, London, 1905 Hughes, William & Frederick Patterson, ed. Robert Russa Moton of Hampton			USD -	100.00
429		HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Klingberg, Frank. An Appraisal of the Negro in Colonial South Carolina, Washington, 1941 Macy, Jesse. The Anti-Slavery Crusade, New Haven, 1919 Allen, James. The Negro in New York, N.Y., [1964] Wesley, Charles. Neglected History, Es			USD -	90.00
430	HUGHES, LANGSTON	Poems from Black Africa, edited by Hughes, Bloomington, [1963] (flyleaf removed) An African Treasury, ed. by Hughes, N.Y., [1961] Hansberry, Lorraine. Un Raisin au Soleil, [Paris, 1959] Piquion, Rene. Langston Hughes, Un Chant Nouveau, Port-au-Prince, Hai			USD -	40.00
431	HUGHES, LANGSTON	Guillen, Nicolas. Cuba Libre. Translated from the Spanish by Langston Hughes and Ben Frederic Carruthers, L. A. Ward Ritchie Press, 1948 (one of 500 copies) Roumain, Jacques. Masters of the Dew. Translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook, N.Y., [1947]			USD -	50.00
432	JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON	Fifty Years & Other Poems.	Boston	1917	USD -	50.00
433	JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON	God's Trombones.	N.Y.	1927	USD -	30.00
434	JOHNSON, JAMES WELDON	The Book of American Negro Poetry, N.Y., [1922] Black Manhattan, N.Y., 1930			USD -	50.00
435		LITERATURE. A group of 24 volumes by or about black writers. Loggins, Vernon. The Negro Author: His Development in America, N.Y., 1931 (inscribed by author to Arthur Spingarn, and with 2 brief letters from him laid in) Butcher, Margaret. The Negro in Amer			USD -	110.00
436		LITERATURE. A group of 13 volumes by black American writers. Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son, Boston, [1955] Baldwin. Going to Meet the Man, N.Y., 1965 Baldwin. Blues for Mister Charlie, N.Y., 1964 Baldwin. Nobody Knows My Name, N.Y., 1961 Baldwin.			USD -	80.00
437		LITERATURE. A group of 15 volumes by, or containing contributions by, black writers. Jones, Le Roi. The Dead Lecturer, N.Y., [1964] Jones. Blurs People, N.Y., 1963 Jones. Home, N.Y., 1966 Baldwin, James. Going to Meet the Man, N.Y., 1965 Armah, Ayi. The B			USD -	40.00
438	McKAY, CLAUDE	Constab Ballads.	London	1912	USD -	80.00
439	McKAY, CLAUDE	Harlem Shadows.	N.Y.	1922	USD -	80.00
440	McKAY, CLAUDE	Home to Harlem, N.Y., 1928 Banjo, N.Y., 1929 Selected Poems, N.Y., 1953			USD -	70.00
441		N.A.A.C.P. Annual Reports, No. 1, to 52	New York	1911-64	USD -	160.00
442		N.A.A.C.P. Birthday greetings for Arthur B. Spingarn's birthday, signed by Roy Wilkins and the national office staff of the NAACP. (broadside) Annual Reports for 1964, 65, and 1966, plus convention programs for 1959 and 1965 The Crisis, a group of 40 odd			USD -	10.00
443		NOVELS. A group of 21 volumes by black American writers: Killens, John Oliver. And Then We Heard the Thunder, N.Y., 1963 Killens. Black Man's Burden, N.Y., 1965 Killens. 'Sippi, N.Y., 1967 Killens. Youngblood, N.Y., 1954 (second printing) Mayfield, Julian			USD -	90.00
444		NOVELS. A group of 22 volumes by black American writers: Kelley, William. A Different Drummer, Garden City, 1962 (later printing) Kelley. Dem, Garden City, 1967 Kelley. A Drop of Patience, Garden City, 1965 Kelley. Dancers on the Shore, Garden City, 1964			USD -	70.00
445		NOVELS. A group of 20 volumes by black American writers: Himes, Chester. The Heat's On, N.Y., [1966] Himes. Run Man Run, N.Y., [1966] Himes. Blind Man with a Pistol, N.Y., 1969 Himes. Cotton Comes to Harlem, N.Y., [1965](first American edition) Himes. Pin			USD -	90.00
446		NOVELS. A group of 26 volumes by black American writers: Anderson, Alston. All God's Children, Indianapolis, [1965] Demby, William. The Catacombs, N.Y., [1964] Guy, Rosa. Bird at My Window, Phila., 1966 Graham, Lorenz. Whose Town? N.Y., [1969] Granderson,			USD -	Unknown
447		NOVELS. A group of 20 volumes by black American writers: Anderson, Alston, All God's Children, Indianapolis, [ 1965] Anderson, Henry. No Use Cryin. L.A., 1961 Austin, Edmund. The Black Challenge, N.Y., [ 1958] Baldwin, James. Another Country, N.Y., 1962 B			USD -	80.00
448		NOVELS. A group of 10 volumes by black American and English writers: Thomas, Will. God Is for White Folks, N.Y., [1947] (chipped dust jacket) Williams, Chancellor. Have You Been to the River?, [1952] (dust jacket) Smith, William. Last of the Conquerors, N			USD -	110.00
449		NOVELS OF THE TWENTIES. A group of 4 volumes by black American writers: Toomer, Jean. Cane, N.Y., [1923] Larsen, Nella. Passing, N.Y., 1929 White, Walter F. The Fire in the Flint, N.Y., 1924 White. Flight, N.Y., 1926			USD -	110.00
450		POETRY. Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Poems of Cabin and Field, N.Y., 1899 Johnson, James Weldon. God's Trombones, N.Y., 1932			USD -	30.00
451		POETRY. A group of 13 volumes by black American writers: Brooks, Gwendolyn. Annie Allen, N.Y., [1949] Brooks. A Street in Bronzeville, N.Y., 1945 Bontemps, Arna, ed. American Negro Poetry, N.Y., [1963] (inscribed by Bontemps to Arthur Spingarn, and with a			USD -	90.00
452		POETRY. A group of 21 volumes of and about poetry by black writers: Wagner, Jean. Les Poetes Negres des Etats-Unis, Paris, 1963 (inscribed by author to Arthur Spingarn) Coleman, Edward, ed. Creole Voices, Poems in French by Free Men of Color First Publish			USD -	70.00
453		SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. Rogers, J.A. Sex and Race: Negro-Caucasion Mixing in All Ages and All Lands, 3 vols., N.Y., [1944-1963] Rogers. Nature Knows no Color-Line, N.Y., [1952] Drake, St. Clair and Horace Cayton. Black Metropolis, intro. by Richard Wrig			USD -	100.00
454		SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY. Spiller, G., ed. Papers on Inter-Racial Problems Communicated to the First Universal Races Congress Held at University of London, July-26-29, 1911, London, 1911 Cayton, Horace and George Mitchell. Black Workers and the New Unions			USD -	80.00
455	VAN VECHTEN, CARL	Nigger Heaven	N.Y.	1926	USD -	30.00

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