Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1927. Cloth and boards. Oct. 1927 ownership inscription on title, cloth slightly smudged, but a good copy, without dust jacket. First edition, trade issue, of the author's first book, accompanied by a long introduction by Paul Green that addresses more the emergence of.....

Norwich, CT: George W. Kies, Dealer in all kinds of Boots and Shoes, and Rubbers, [nd but later half of 1800s]. Printed illustrated handbill (142 x 217 mm), printed recto and verso on thin paper stock resulting in ghosting from recto to verso and reverse. Fine. An advertising handbill for.....

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., [1967]. Narrow quarto. Plastic comb-Bound stiff printed wrappers. Uncorrected proofs of the first edition of this occasionally controversial work of urban anthropology. Filing label across lower edge, otherwise about fine.

Atlanta: Home Mission Boards, [nd. but post 1890], 32mo (12 X 8 cm). Printed self-wrapper. Cheap paper slightly tanned, but a very good copy. Tichenor (1825 -1902) had an active career encompassing simultaneous service as both chaplain and sharpshooter with the 17th Alabama Regiment, as well as a number productive.....

New York: MOMA, [1966]. Oblong small octavo. Pictorial wrapper. Photographs reproduced in gravure. Wrappers moderately darkened at edges, otherwise very good. First edition. Introduction by Lincoln Kirstein. A remarkable visual record of the Institute, originally prepared for the 1900 Paris Exhibition.

Savannah, GA. Published by Wilson & Havens, [ca. 1870]. Stereopticon photograph, mounted on card, with printed label on verso. Small early ink name on verso of card, else very nice. An example of the blizzard of racially stereotypical stereographs produced and sold in the South (and North, for that matter).....

New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 2006. Narrow octavo broadside (9.25 x 4"; 23.5 x 10 cm). Typographic decorations. Fine. A separate printing of this poem first collected in AMERICAN SUBLIME (2005). A keepsake broadside quite handsomely printed in four colors on the occasion of a Beinecke exhibition.....

London: Cassell, [ 1959]. Cloth. Illustrated. First British edition of the author's first book, with a foreword by Robert Graves. Fine in near fine, price- clipped dust jacket.

New York: Random House, [1990]. Gilt decorated cloth and boards. First edition. Fine, in a near fine dust jacket.

[ London]: Deutsch, [ 1981]. Gilt cloth boards. First edition of the Trinidad-born author's sixth novel. Fine in dust jacket.

Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. Cloth. Fine in faintly worn dust jacket with small nick. First edition. Introduction by Harry Golden. Inscribed presentation copy from Creger, with a closely typed t.l.s., Little Rock, 14 July 1964, accompanying the presentation. In the context of the desegregation crisis in Little Rock, here is.....

Postmarked Newark. July 12 [year indecipherable]. Pictorial postcard, depicting "Aesop imparting the wisdom of Africa to the Greeks." About fine. A response to, no doubt, an autograph seeker: "Mr Upton, Send contribution to 'LeRoi Jones Defense Fund' Box 633 Newark, N.J. That's my favorite charity at the moment L.J."