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Conde, Maryse I, TITUBA, BLACK WITCH OF SALEM
$175.00
Edition: Third printing. Â Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, (1992.)
First appearance in English of this novel which won the 1986 Grand Prix Litteraire de la Femme – it expands on the true story of the West Indian slave, Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem in 1692.
INSCRIBED in French on the half title page by Conde and SIGNED with the words “with my best wishes” by Richard Philcox, her translator and husband. Philcox has translated most of Conde’s books (beginning with her first novel) and Conde has both expressed her confidence in him and said that she considers him “responsible” for the book in English – that is, for the flow and rhythm and music of the language. Foreword by Angela Davis, plus a historical note, glossary, afterword by Ann Armstrong Scarboro and a bibliography of Conde’s works. A title in the Caraf Books series, Caribbean and African literature translated from the French. 227 pp. ISBN: 0-8139-13985.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (as new) Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 93195
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$1,200.00Lewistown, PA: Printed and Published by John W. Shugert, 1836. First edition. The subtitle continues “Containing an account of the manners and usages of the Planters and Slaveholders of the South, a description of the condition and treatment of the Slaves, with observations upon the state of morals amongst the cotton planters, and the perils and sufferings of a fugitive slave, who twice escaped from the cotton country.” Rare first edition of this important slavery narrative by Ball, one which covers forty years of his life as a slave and his several escapes, an account reprinted many times through the 1850s under various titles. Born into slavery in Maryland around 1780, separated from his mother when he was four, he was owned by several different masters and lived in three states. Attempting escape on numerous occasions, he eventually succeeded and lived on a small farm until he was recaptured in 1830. However, he escaped again, and moved to Philadelphia, where he wrote this autobiography with the assistance of Isaac Fisher, a white lawyer. Fisher’s preface in which he acknowledges omitting or ‘carefully suppressing’ Ball’s opinions on slavery, cast some doubt upon the authenticity of this work, but the second edition, just one year later, included a statement from two prominent Pennsylvanians “that we know the black man whose narrative is given in this book, and have heard him relate the principal matters contained in the book concerning himself, long before the book was published.” Two page preface by Isaac Fisher. Errata list on verso of title page. 400 pp, Fair condition only in original boards, resewn and rebacked with dark brown goatskin, endpapers replaced. Significant rubbing and wear to the edges of the boards, tidemarks and foxing throughout. Â Loss of approximately half an inch to the bottom edge of the first leaf after the title (the preface).
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Brooks, Gwendolyn. IN THE MECCA.
$850.00New York: Harper & Row, (1968) First printing. Sixth collection of poetry by this Pulitzer prize winning author. The title of this book refers to a huge decaying apartment building in Chicago’s ghetto – the setting for the long title poem. INSCRIBED on the half title page and signed “affectionately, Gwen.” 54 pp. Â Very near fine in red boards in a near fine dust jacket (a very attractive copy with some toning to the dj, original price of $4.95 still present on flap).
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Thurman, Howard (1900 -1981) JESUS AND THE DISINHERITED.
$750.00Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, (1949) First printing. An attempt to answer the question of why Christianity seems impotent to deal radically and effectively with issues of discrimination and injustice based on race, religion and national origin – an issue which Thurman, a minister and civil rights activist,  wrote frequently about. In his preface, he noted that the full development of his ideas were in a series of lectures – the Mary L. Smith Memorial Lectures  which he gave at Samuel Huston College, Austin, Texas in April 1948, and upon which this book is based. In it, he interprets the teachings of Jesus through the experiences of the oppressed and discusses nonviolent responses to this oppression. According to Martin Luther King’s biographer, King studied this book during the Montgomery bus boycott.  INSCRIBED by Thurman on the title page. Scarce in the first edition, especially signed.  112 pp.  Very good in burgundy boards with gilt lettering on the spine (light rubbing to lettering on spine, bookplate).  750.00 Â
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Lincoln's 1862 message & Emancipation Proclamatio
Lincoln, Abraham Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Third Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress [Emancipation Proclamation, State of the Union Address]
$325.00Michael Pyron, Bookseller ABAA/ILAB
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1862. Cloth. Good binding. Octavo. 910 pp. First edition, thus. As issued, in publisher’s embossed cloth; spine titled, “Messages / and / Documents. / 1862-63. / Part 1. / Abridgment. / Senate.” Binding is sunned at the spine; relatively minor wear to the extremities; evidence of moisture exposure to the binding, but more pronounced to the first and last several leaves where there are early tidelines, but it does not extend to the body of the text with any consistency; occasional scattered foxing. This contains Lincoln’s second “State of the Union,” though at that time, it was a printed message, rather than an address. In this message Lincoln tangles with the year and a half old civil war and his struggle to preserve the Union while wrestling with the central impasse of the rebellion—slavery. A remarkable address that contains at the conclusion one of his memorable lines, “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country” (p. 23). Of profound importance and one of Lincoln’s boldest moves to “rise with the occasion,” this volume contains the 22 September 1862 preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, the final version would be issued and enforced a month after Lincoln’s message. The idea of an executive action that would free the slaves in states that were in open rebellion with the Union came in the summer of 1862. An early version of the proclamation was read by Lincoln to his cabinet in July 1862. On the advice of Secretary of State William Seward, this penultimate version of the proclamation was thought to be more effective if issued after a significant Union victory—that victory turned out to be at Antietam. The Emancipation Proclamation is among the most important documents in United States history and this preliminary version (though largely consistent with the final) offers a glimpse into Lincoln’s steps towards the abolition of slavery in service of the preservation of the Union.
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