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The Collection of André Leon Talley

Thu, Sep 21, 2023 10:00AM EDT
Lot 66

Group of Books about Black History

Estimate: $200 - $400
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Including: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, 2010; The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist, Basic Books, 2014; America: Behind the Color Line by Henry Louis Gates Jr., Warner Books, 2004, with inscription by the author; Jim Crow and the Wilson Administration: Protesting Federal Segregation in the Early Twentieth Century by Nicholas Patler, University Press of Colorado, 2004; Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall by Michael G. Long, Amistad, 2011, with a Harper Collins letter and a 'Strand Bookstore' bookmark; Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin, Sepia Publishing Company, 1960; Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball, Ballantine Books, 1998; Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams, Henry Holt and Company, 2020; Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, Random House, 2020; Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor edited by Paul Beatty, Bloomsbury Publications, 2006; Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham, Harper Collins Publishers, 1999, with an autograph by the author; A Defiant Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism in America by Howard Ball, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1998, with a 'Strand Bookstore' bookmark; Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads by the Reverend Al Sharpton, Hanover Square Press, 2020; The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech that Inspired a Nation by Drew D. Hansen, Harper Collins Publication, 2003, with handwritten notes on yellow post-it's on the inner cover; Africa's Business Revolution: How to Succeed in the World's Next Big Growth Market by Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga, and Georges Desvaux, Harvard Business Review Press, 2018, with inscription by Hakeem Belo-Osagie; Life Turns Man Up and Down: High Life, Useful Advice, and Mad English selected and introduced by Kurt Thometz, Pantheon Books, 2001; and two 'Black Folk Must Vote' BFMV.org pins. 

Condition

All with wear consistent with age and use.

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The Collection of André Leon Talley