“THERE IS NO QUESTION TODAY MORE UNSETTLED IN AMERICAN POLITICS THAN THE NEGRO QUESTION”
FORTUNE, T. Thomas. Black and White. New York, 1885.
Second edition of this treatise on the future of labor and interracial relations in the South by a major African American journalist and public intellectual. $650.
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"THE ROMANCE, THE GLAMOUR, THE LURE OF THE SEA…"
CHATTERTON, E. Keble. Windjammers and Shellbacks. London, 1926.
First edition of this collection of true stories about the sea and seafarers, in original cloth with prize stamp. $350.
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“AN EPIC HISTORY OF OUR CENTURY OF WAR”
BOLTANSKI, Christian. Kaddish. Paris; München, 1998.
First trade edition of Boltanski’s moving photobook, a “monumental book… a gigantic memento mori” (Parr & Badger II), illustrated with 1,148 black-and-white photographic images. $300.
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