126. Mr. George's Joint. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1941.
First Edition. Hawkins dustjacket art. Thomas Jefferson Southern Award winning novel of African-American life in contemporary Texas. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #8609
First Edition. Hawkins dustjacket art. Thomas Jefferson Southern Award winning novel of African-American life in contemporary Texas. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #8609
Second Edition. African-American interest. Uncommon collection of poetry written in dialect by a white author. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and edges, top rear panel with quarter sized chip. Item #22915
Reprint Edition (presumed First Printing with Mach Tey dustjacket art) African American author's second book. Mimi Daquin, "a negro Creole girl with ivory skin and hair of reddish gold" passes, for a time, as white. In the New Orleans of her birth, Mimi never encountered the hierarchies of skin color that existed elsewhere. But when her family moves to Atlanta, she embarks on a lifelong lesson about what it really means to belong to a people. From the Atlanta riot of 1906 to her shameful expulsion from black bourgeois society because of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, to her working-class status in Philadelphia and Harlem, Mimi eventually decides to escape her miseries by passing for white in New York City. There, her success exceeds her expectations but even so cannot quell a recurrent yearning. Although a reprint, this book is seldom seen in dustjacket. Scarce. Very Good in Good dustjacket, shallow edge chipping, long closed tear across front panel mended at verso with scotch tape. Item #27533
First Edition. Adventurous novel of rural African-American life written in dialect. "Foller along wid me an' Lily an Lady Luck an' I garntees you steady rations, store clothes, an' Sat'-days free".Very Good or Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, modest soiling to white panels. Item #21225
First Edition. Adventurous novel of rural African-American life written in dialect. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, small chips at spine ends and top flap corners, red at spine faded. . Item #6713
First Edition Thus. 'New Edition' of the first Wildcat Vitus Marsden book. A depreciating novel of African-Americans in the First World War. Wiley escorts his "dusky hero through a series of hilarious adventures, wherein the shooting of dice becomes only secondary to the shooting of Germans. How the Wildcat wins the Great War, goes A. W. O. L., captures a German regiment, a croix de guerre and the kisses of a French general yields one long laugh". Near Fine in Good dustjacket, half inch chip at lower spine end, chipped at top spine end, top rear panel with nickel and quarter sized chip, lettering at spine fading. Item #23096
First Edition. Jim Seed dustjacket art and illustrations. Sympathetic short children's story about the daily life of a young African-American living in the city. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, small chips at lower spine end. Item #13938
First Edition stated. Famous African-American's first novel. Consisting of four short works: 'Big Boy Leaves Home', 'Down by the Riverside', 'Long Black Song' and 'Fire and Cloud'. "Stunning impact of the essential tragedy of the Negro in a white man's civilization." Almost Near Fine, contemporary signature at front endpaper, in Good only dustjacket, split along front spine edge, perhaps an inch area of loss at top spine end, chipped at flap corners and lower spine end, some tiny chips at mid spine. Item #27013
First Edition. African American themed story written in dialect. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with light chipping to spine ends, shallow chipping to top edges, and mild dark smudges to panels. Item #16497