Title: Two elegantly produced imprints Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1989-1996 Description: Includes: Charles L. Blockson. A Commented Bibliography of One Hundred and One Influential Books By and About People of African Descent (1556-1982) / A Collector’s Choice (Amsterdam, 1989) 74pp. Original cloth in Dust Jacket. Illustrated. Randy F. Weinstein. Against the Tide / Commentaries on a Collection of African Armericana 1711-1987 (Glenn Horowitz, NY, 1996). 1 of 1500 copies. Original pictorial boards. 278pp. Illustrated priced catalogue Published, with valuable bibliograhic commentary, at a time of burgeoning interest in African-Americana, on the eve of annual Swann Galleries auctions (see listing above). The 300-item Horowitz catalogue included Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frederick Douglass rarities and a James Baldwin manuscript offered at $50,000. Blockson, whose superb comprehensive collection is now held by Temple University, selected rarities by and about Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B.DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., and Alice Walker Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 288647
Title: Two elegantly produced imprints Author: Place: Publisher: Date: 1989-1996 Description: Includes: Charles L. Blockson. A Commented Bibliography of One Hundred and One Influential Books By and About People of African Descent (1556-1982) / A Collector’s Choice (Amsterdam, 1989) 74pp. Original cloth in Dust Jacket. Illustrated. Randy F. Weinstein. Against the Tide / Commentaries on a Collection of African Armericana 1711-1987 (Glenn Horowitz, NY, 1996). 1 of 1500 copies. Original pictorial boards. 278pp. Illustrated priced catalogue Published, with valuable bibliograhic commentary, at a time of burgeoning interest in African-Americana, on the eve of annual Swann Galleries auctions (see listing above). The 300-item Horowitz catalogue included Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Frederick Douglass rarities and a James Baldwin manuscript offered at $50,000. Blockson, whose superb comprehensive collection is now held by Temple University, selected rarities by and about Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B.DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Robeson, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., and Alice Walker Lot Amendments Condition: Very good. Item number: 288647
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