Charles Johnson, Patricia Smith and the WGBH Research Team; Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery; Harvest Book - Harcourt Brace, 1999, stated First Edition with number line EDCBA. Paper covers, 8vo (thick trade pb), xv, 494 with index, many bw photos and reproduced documents. VG: corners bumped, top right corner slight rippling, clean, crisp, no markings. This book currently lists for 38.95 new, although the 1999 list price on the cover was lower.

Price: $16.95

Edited by Kenneth Ives, Black Quakers: Brief Biographies, Progressive Publisher, 1995. Expanded from 1986 edition with four more biographies. Crown octavo, blue paper covers, 156 pp, illustrated with bw sketches. GOOD : yellowing on spine, light spotting and small tape residue on covers; pages bright and tight. Biographies of 13 people spanning 18th to 20th century. The book uses "simplified spelling" - certain words are shortened phonetically, but few enough that the text is quite readable.

Retail: $28.00

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Peter H. Wood (Duke University professor), Karen C. C. Dalton, Winslow Homer's Images of Blacks, The Civil War and Reconstruction Years, Austin, Menil Foundation - University of Texas Press, 1988, first. INSCRIBED by Peter H. Wood to "Alice S. Barkley and the staff and council of NCHC" (executive director of N.C. Humanities Council). Illustrated paper covers, 4to, 144 pp with notes and a detailed chronology of Homer's "works including blacks," This book contains many bw and color works including planning sketches, woodcuts for Harper's Weekly and paintings, accompanied by relevant history and analysis, based on a 1988-89 exhibition. G: cover scuffed, edges worn, front cover and half the pages corner creased, light smudge on edges, clean, no markings other than inscription.

Price: $57.00