1. Valade III, Roger M.

The Essential Black Literature Guide. Published in Association with the Schomburg Centre for Research in Black Culture.

Detroit, New York, Washington D.C., Toronto, Visible Ink Press, 1996. 15 cm x 23 cm. XVIII, 446 pages. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white portrait photographs. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt.

Socialism Today / Rejoice Not in Standing Still – A Negro speaks of the World.

First Edition. Chicago, Afram Books / Afro-American Heritage Association, [c. 1960]. Octavo. 12 pages (including printed wrappers). Portrait-Photograph of William Du Bois on cover. Original Softcover wrappers in Mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Extremely rare ! According to a foreword by Ishmael Flory “this is a first printed pamphlet issued by Afram Books”. Includes a short Bibliography of Du Bois’ publications, starting with mentioning his first article in Harvard Historical Studies in 1896 “The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America” to “Mansart’s World of Color” in 1960. It also lists “other EQUALITY Pamphlets by W.E.B.DuBois like “The Damnation of Women – Predictions on Fatherless and Dependenet Children”.