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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. Octavo. xlviii, 463pp. Illustrated. Wrappers slightly faded with modest wear, spine lightly toned, very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Volume three only. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Octavo. xiii, 621pp. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with one inch tear on front panel near spine.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Slightly worn and torn. Facsimile of the 1813 edition , with an introduction by P.G.M. Foster, folding frontispiece and several plates, very large thick 8vo, pp xxxii, x, (i), 587, all edges gilt., a very good copy in a dustwrapper with a slightly marked spine which is also slightly torn at the head, now nicely protected in a removable plastic cover.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Periodical. Small octavo. 98pp. Stapled wrappers. Wrappers toned with moderate wear and soiling, several leaves with creased corners and one with a very short tear, sound and about good; the text is bright and the paper supple A single but notable issue from this influential and important digest, which was the foundation of the Johnson Publishing empire. In addition to excerpting articles by and about African-Americans from other publications, there was also much original content written expressly for the magazine. This issue is especially notable for printing the recurring column "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience," this month penned by Langston Hughes: a sad story in which a teenaged Hughes is harassed in a Cleveland cafeteria, as well as Zora Neal Hurston's "Beware the Begging Joints" (condensed from *American Mercury*). Also prints "Does Interracial Marriage Succeed" by heavyweight champion Joe Louis; "Can the Negro Afford Birth Control?" by Dr. Julian Lewis; a four-page "condensation" from Walter White's book *The Rising Wind* (on the status of Black troops in the European Theater after a personal visit); and the monthly column "If I Where a Negro," this month penned by Francis E. McMahon. McMahon had recently been the subject of major controversy when he was fired from Notre Dame University (with encouragement from the Vatican, it turned out much later) for speaking out in favor of the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. An important issue of an important magazine; early issues are uncommon.…