An Extremely Scarce Book of Essays and Two Harlem Photography Books

To include:

Mary Barfoot. Bottomfish Blues: The Coming of Black Genocide and Other Essays. New York: Vagabond Press, [1993]. First edition. Paperback in glued photographic wraps. Square 8vo; 123, [3]pp. Extremely scarce; available in only five institutions per WorldCat at time of review. (Light scuffing, edge wear and toning, and creasing to wraps, with an area of discoloration and a couple of minor stains to the back cover; ownership signature and date, and some wear at hinges; typical dried glue leading to detachment of pages 39-56; pages clean.)

Edward Lettau (photographs); Edward Wakin (Text). At the Edge of Harlem. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1965. First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by the author on the first free endpaper. Hardcover in unclipped photographic jacket. Small 4to; 127pp. (Very light age and handling wear to interior and boards; wear and toning to jacket.)

James Van Der Zee (photography); Owen Dodson; Camille Billops; Toni Morrison (foreword). The Harlem Book of the Dead. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, [1978]. First edition. Paperback in glued photographic wraps. 4to; [10], 85pp. (Wraps with soiling, damp staining, light edge toning and wear to extremities, and some curling to front cover; interior with mild hinge wear (dried glue), damp staining impacting some leaves, but otherwise very clean.)

Largest 10 1/2 x 9 in.

From a Private North Carolina Collection