Partners to History: Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement.
Crown, 2003. First edition; review copy.
Black Voices
The Undefeated.
Versify, 2019.
Trombone Shorty.
Abrams, 2015. Later printing. Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award. Caldecott Honor book.
The Heart of a Woman.
Random House, 1981. First edition, first printing.
Old Massa's People: The Old Slaves Tell Their Story.
Bobbs-Merrill, 1931. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author.
Blues for Mister Charlie.
Dial Press, 1964. Book Club edition.
The Devil Finds Work.
Dial Press, 1976. First edition, first printing.
Going To Meet The Man.
Dial Press, 1965. First edition, first printing. Black cloth, top stain yellow (APG, 53). 249pp.
No Name in the Street.
Dial, 1972. First edition, first printing. Original white cloth.
Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone.
Dial Press, 1968. First edition, first printing. Original white cloth.
Slaves in the Family.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First edition, first printing.
Black Writers of America: A Comprehensive Anthology.
Macmillan, 1972. Later printing. Black cloth, no dust jacket.
I Am Every Good Thing.
Nancy Paulsen, 2020. Later printing.
White is a State of Mind: A Memoir.
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First edition; review copy.
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years.
Simon & Schuster, 1998. First edition, first printing.
Rosa Parks.
Viking, 2000. Second printing.
You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks.
W. W. Norton, 1986. First edition, first printing. Signed by Thordis Simonsen.
Middle Passages: African-American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005.
Penguin, 2006. First edition, first printing.
Between the World and Me.
Spiegel & Grau, 2015. Later printing.
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Through the Years.
Jackson: C. M. E. Church, 1949. Brown cloth, no dust jacket.
The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom.
Kodansha, 1994. First edition, first printing.
The Sea is so Wide and My Boat is So Small.
Hyperion, 2008. First edition, first printing.
A Mind to Stay Here : Profiles from the South.
Macmillan, 1970. First edition, first printing. Includes profiles on John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Sarah Boyle, and many others.
The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation.
U. of Georgia, 2016. First edition, first printing. Matte boards, no dust jacket, as issued.
Goodbye to Uncle Tom: An Analysis of the Myths Pertaining to the American Negro, from their Origins to the Misconceptions of Today.
William Sloane, 1956. Second printing.