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First Book of Negroes by HUGHES Langston

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Title: First Book of Negroes
Author: HUGHES Langston
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1952. First Edition. Signed. HUGHES, Langston. The First Book of Negroes. New York: Franklin Watts, 1952. Square quarto, original gilt-stamped green cloth, pictorial endpapers, original pictorial dust jacket. $5500.First edition of Hughes' inaugural book in his major five-volume series on Black history from the 16th century to Jim Crow America, the highly elusive first printing issued at the height of McCarthyism with Josephine Baker's image and biography that was quickly omitted from subsequent printings, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, ""For NancySincerely, Langston October 10, 1952.""Here, in the landmark first book of Hughes' five-volume series for children, he ""kept clearly in mind the idea that his readers would, more than likely, be the ones to confront their nation's greatest failure of its democracy, the racial divide, head on. So he wrote in First Book of Negroes (1952) of the noble history of Africans and of the diverse and significant achievements of one African American after another"" (Clark, Civics of Getting Along, 8). Written in the form of stories told to a fictional African American boy named Terry, the book was issued two years before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Terry and the other children in this pioneering work ""are both shaped by and come to terms with race politics at once It can be easy to dismiss the political importance of these messages over 60 years later To do so, however, is to misread the importance of First Book of Negroes as well as its continually adaptive writer, who sought to bring central, long-developing principles of political rights and aesthetic representation to some of the nation's youngest and most impressionable citizens In his early work Hughes had often conceived of Africa, as did other Harlem Renaissance writers, as a symbolic motherland In First Book of Negroes, by contrast, he is more interested in African resistance to European colonialism and the flourishing of African civilization before European colonization."" The book's further assessment of Jim Crow, and Hughes' focus on a Black child in Harlem underlines his conviction that African American ""achievement was compatible with a deep sense of history, identity and place. Owning and telling this history, in literature and in lore, was key to the process"" (Erickson & Morrell, eds, Educating Harlem).This very elusive first printing contains the image and a capsule biography of Josephine Bakerexcised when ""a New York columnist threatened to attack the book unless all references to her were removedon the grounds that Baker was a communistshe disappeared from the text in the next printing'"" (Rampersad in Bloom, ed., Langston Hughes, 215). The book was also issued with no references to either W.E.B. Du Bois or Paul Robeson, an omission Hughes deeply regretted but was left without a choice. He later noted: ""It was at the height of the McCarthy Red-baiting era and publishers had to go out of their way to keep books, particularly children's books, from being attacked, as well as schools and libraries that might purchase books it was impossible at that time to get anything into children's books about either Dr. Du Bois or Paul Robeson"" (Rampersad II, 230-31). With ""First Printing"" stated opposite title page; containing image and biography of Josephine Baker (45). Color and black-and-white illustrations by Ursula Koering, many full- and double-page. Inscribed to Nancy Anne Siegmeister, daughter of composer Elie Siegmeister, a close friend of Hughes for over 30 years.Book fine, dust jacket extremely good with modest toning and wear to spine, a few rubs and short tears. Desirable and rarer inscribed.

Rules and Regulations for the Government of Racing, Trotting, and Betting as adopted by the principal Turf Associations throughout the United States and Canada. [And:] The Turfman's Referee; containing numerous Discussions on Disputed Points on Racing, Trotting, and Betting. Compiled from the "Answers to Correspondents," as given in "Wilkes' Spirit of the Times

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Title: Rules and Regulations for the Government of Racing, Trotting, and Betting as adopted by the principal Turf Associations throughout the United States and Canada. [And:] The Turfman's Referee; containing numerous Discussions on Disputed Points on Racing, Trotting, and Betting. Compiled from the "Answers to Correspondents," as given in "Wilkes' Spirit of the Times
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy (minor rubbing and soiling to boards, head of spine scuffed). Splitting along
Description: New York: M.B. Brown & Co, 1869. Expanded edition. 272; [viii], 66, [8, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Very good copy (minor rubbing and soiling to boards, head of spine scuffed). Splitting along endpapers and hinges, otherwise binding is good. Previous ownership of J.W. Fiske in black ink on front flyleaf (tear beneath); another ownership signature on title page.Bookplate of the Jockey Club. Shelfmark taped to foot of spine. Expanded edition. 272; [viii], 66, [8, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Standard post Civil War reference on racing in America, listing rules of 30 clubs, state and local racing assocations, and racetracks. With the The Turfman's Referee. The title pages record copyright registrations of 1866 and 1867, but this copy is an expanded edition including the Racing and Betting Rules of the American Jockey Club, Adopted March 9, 1869, and the page count differs from the copies reportred in OCLC Joseph Winn Fiske (1832-1903) was a New York industrialist whose firm manufactured hammered copper weather vanes, iron stable fittings, railings, and the decorative cast iron often seen on Civil War memorials. There is a two-page spread advertising for J.W. Fiske & Company, 120 Nassau street, New York City, in the ads at back of this copy.

FRANK STELLA IN 2002 by Stella, Frank; Tyler, Kenneth E.; Hobbs, Robert C.

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Title: FRANK STELLA IN 2002
Author: Stella, Frank; Tyler, Kenneth E.; Hobbs, Robert C.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN: 9789810459611
Condition: Near fine.
Description: Singapore: Singapore Tyler Print Institute, 2002. First printing. Near fine.. Inscribed first edition, association copy, of this catalogue to accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute - inscribed to the US Ambassador to Singapore, Frank Lavin. With a foreword by Kenneth E. Tyler and an appreciation by Robert C. Hobbs, an especially appropriate association for this uncommon Stella book. 11.5'' x 8''. Original glossy color pictorial boards. No jacket, as issued. One of 2000 copies. 84 pages. Inscribed by Stella: "For Ambassador / Lavin / Cheers! / Frank Stella." Slight lean, trace bumping. Overall, bright and sharp.

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